One Sunday is a good day to stop to see in the streets the placidity of our lives. Domingo’s walks denote a situation that walks remarkably from the most own of the cruel world that surrounds us. Present conflicts such as migration, the war in Ukraine, the genocide of Netyahu endless in Palestine, Trump at its maximum glow, its acolytes that conquer the world, the narcissistic and imperialist narcissist Putin, a controversial Ukraine with Zelenski…. Today the economic expansion of Xi Jinping is no longer “so threatening”. And India?
The world has revolved diametrically in a short time, and it has not been for good. Europe has been left alone. Our intense dependence, energy, defensive and even leadership, elongated for many decades, has clear a lack of entity – of personality – of which perhaps we had not realized, and that has placed us in a alignment so deep that it has recently given us a serious setback.
We are disoriented. Where are those who said friends? Why do (us) do this? Who do I go now? Where to get new resources? What about my sales? What do I say to my companies? Has the economic and social, world model fallen, to which we followed? What is our model now and why does it not belong to us?
Perhaps few remember the assault on the Capitol in Washington, a little more than four years ago. Why did that happen? Wasn’t we talking about the strongest democracy – or at least model – of the world? What consequences did it have? It seems that we forgot, as an isolated episode and without major consequences, but Today we see that its effects have even reached a more “normalized” theory as is an electoral victory: Something that already happened in Germany of 1933: Hitler did not assaulted power, he won it at the polls; Trump’s followers assaulted power by force and he won it at the polls. Winston Chuchill already said, “Democracy is the worst government system, except for everyone else.”
The story…. Do you remember that pact signed by the ministers of Hitler and Stalin in 1939, Ribbentrop and Mótotov? Doesn’t you remember the still not entrued by Putin and Trump? He suffered, in the first place, the Poles, then the Czechs, Hungarians and a long etcetera…. Now it has started by Ukraine, who will be the next?
Do you also remember, shortly before, the passivity of France and England against Franco’s armed uprising in Spain in 1936? Did they ever regretted? What would George Orwell think? What would the Nine soldiers think, in the Lecrec Division, when they entered a liberated Paris that Hitler had ordered to devastate his escape? Was Paris burned?
We are disoriented Who are we? Or what have we become? Or better yet, what have we let them make us? Have we stayed alone? Those who walked next to us have unmarked in extreme lines of contempt to the other, who scratch in the hatred that is not or does not think like me, or worse, to which he does not submit to me. We have gone from a world leadership or an absolute exercise of power by force: our Capitol have assaulted. Today they hinder a convicted of justice as Trump all those who disagree, also universities such as Harvard or Columbia. And all this have caught us as a Sunday walk, feeling distant and harmless to those milei, orban or the convicted Jean
Marie Le Pen, … already in our country those who began denying gender violence and wanting to destroy autonomies, and we will see where they end.
Our concern has been our most selfish interests, specified in our particular status and well -being. Who is Milei, what affects my Argentina? What else does it have if Netanyahu has already killed thousands of civilians in Palestine day after day for about two years? What more does the International Court have declared him a fugitive for war crimes and crimes against humanity? Why countries like Hungary, with Orban in front, but integrated into the European Union, disregard international detention orders?
We have the principles. Maybe little more, but also nothing less. Principles that Europe must constantly and relevantly value, although some Trumpists refuse to it and They know how to answer more than with speeches of “homelands” to which they do not defend in front of an aggression as severe for its citizens as the tariffs of their idol and Trump model; not in mere flags and poisonous demagogies; Yes, defending our principles, and not adulterating others who, not for being foreigners, but for their actions, deserve all the rejection of all.
Citizenship, humanism, solidarity, equality, freedom, fraternity … Everything comes from that spirit that illustrated us in the French Revolution in 1879 and which was consecrated in 1848 again in that country (and which closed worldwide a century later with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). It is a path in which our values have been forged, our identity, that of our Europe and our world, our essence. A Europe that finally recognized the need to maintain a firm unit Faced with those fascists and dictators of the 40s of the last century, and who today must recover that firmness and conviction to this threat of the new fascism, commercial and imperialist, of those that make up the Trump-Putin entente. Some are not so far, they are here in our country and have their own acronyms and their own voice (in front of them they must be citizens and also, we trust, the state parties).
Amin Maalouf said in the mouth of one of his characters in his work “The disoriented”: “… we always despise the same time, just as we idealize the past times. It is not difficult for me margin.”
Touch us, here and now. Useful people are necessary; The problem can be when we have people who want to be important (characters), but not usefuland this time cannot afford something like that. Men like Hermogenes Molina and Pedro Zárate, the protagonists of that “good men” by Arturo Pérez Reverte (surely his most important book), were men of duty, chaired in their actions by solid and shared principles, who knew what they were and recognized what they wanted to reach, not only for themselves, but for society and citizenship from which they felt part. They were men within the most faithful humanistic ideal and knew that, despite this, they did not lack enemies. They were surely better oriented than us.
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Deputy Minister of Strategic Planning. of the first vice presidency of the Board of Communities of Castilla-La Mancha.
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