The Coordination for Constitutional Democracy has developed an “Appeal against war” to prevent the return of fighting in Europe. Dozens of intellectuals signed “so that the European Union does not let itself be dragged by NATO into its expansionism to the East, so that Italy opposes the sending of troops and new American missiles, for a negotiation that guarantees Ukraine a condition of neutrality and peace, overcoming and rejecting Russian snares and threats “.
In the last century, Europe was torn apart twice, in the course of a generation, by the scourge “of war that caused untold suffering to its peoples and an inconceivable degradation of humanity up to the absolute evil of the Holocaust – remember in the document- The profound aspiration for peace, to make war between European nations impossible again, was at the foundation of the birth of the European Community and the path that led it to transform itself into a European Union “.
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact “undermined the last consequences of the Cold War in Europe and created the possibility of the peaceful coexistence of all its peoples, from the Atlantic to the Urals. Unfortunately, the detente made possible. it has not been cultivated since the end of the Cold War; the dissolution of the Soviet Union was not enough to wipe out the spirit of opposition between the two military blocs, as could have been foreseen by the enlargement of the G7 to Russia, a chapter that was hastily closed “.
The eastward enlargement of NATO, “which incorporated countries that were part of the former Soviet Union, entailed the deployment of a hostile military device on Russia’s borders; this objectively constitutes a threat and has been perceived as such. This situation has generated a new arms race, including nuclear rearmament – again underlines the appeal – The conditions were thus created for a new type of cold war much more dangerous than the previous one, because it was no longer based on ideological opposition but on instincts even less controllable nationalistic “.
The exercise of the Ukrainian people’s right to self-determination “was strongly conditioned by the attempt by Russia, on the one hand, and the US-led Western bloc, on the other, to drag this country each into their own field of influence. Russia occupied Crimea and subsequently fueled the Donbass conflict, NATO took a position experienced as a political and military provocation by Russia, when it declared its willingness to welcome Ukraine and Georgia into the Atlantic alliance “
Now the political and military tension between the two sides has reached unsustainable levels. “A provocation can come from anywhere on the ground and act as a detonator to an armed conflict that is no longer controllable. It is absolutely urgent to mobilize to prevent the return of war to Europe. A conflict could have unimaginable consequences. We must act immediately for a cooling. of the political-military tension and the only way forward is that of the immediate blocking of any military escalation “.
The European Union, according to the CDC, “must not be dragged by NATO into a senseless race to increase threats on the ground and to relaunch military spending. Italy must disassociate itself from this policy and must send a clear signal to in favor of détente, which has no alternative, opposing – as it is in its power – the extension of NATO’s military device into the territory of Ukraine and the deployment in Europe of new American missiles and nuclear weapons “.
At this point it is in the interest of Italy and the European Union “to start negotiations to reach conditions that guarantee Russia from the worry of encirclement and allow Ukraine to develop its national autonomy, in conditions of independence from the two blocs, as it happened for Finland during the Cold War “.
As? For example, starting “from the implementation of the Minsk agreement, a position of neutrality must be negotiated for Ukraine, no longer a military outpost of NATO, but a meeting place between Russian and Western civilizations. We must act now before it is too late”. To join, you must write to [email protected]
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