Many times we hear about how peace is one of the highest human objectives, about how war is always bad and brings horrible consequences, about how there is no heroism in war, and how any violent method is a negative option. Recently, we have also heard more about this, the soldiers are no different from the murderers, all those who have ever fought in the past in some war, be it founding fathers or liberators, it does not matter, they are bullies, and we have also heard of how the patriarchal societies of the old and recent past have driven society unnecessarily down the road of war for some millennia.
I will not even focus on the historical pseudo-revisionism that modern society presents, and its constant criticism of wars and any action carried out by Europe in the past, completely forgetting the facts and the context. My publication does not go to that.
I do not advocate war at all, it is usually undesirable and should always be the last option, but it should be an option. Because peace is only the continuation of the current establishment, and often it is good, but when the establishment is tyrannical and oppressive, then it is better to die in war than to live in peace.
In Syria, for example, both the government and the opposition want peace, but only when this peace is under their conditions, since both sides prefer to be at war rather than being governed by their opponents. Peace is winning the war.
I have lived under a socialist regime and it is not pleasant, that's why it's easy for me to put myself in the shoes of a Russian citizen in the middle of the last century, when over his head he ruled the sickle and the hammer. I would have preferred a war for liberation a thousand times than to live the more than 70 years of communism, totalitarianism and brutal oppression that the people lived.
War is an option when fighting with oppression, a soldier is not a murderer as long as he fights for his nation, and sometimes to guarantee peace, true peace, he must be willing to leave everything aside and go to fight for defending our values.
Peace is not an objective, freedom is. I would not accept for a second that peace that dares to take away from me or take away my freedom.
The majority of wars have nothing to do with peace though. It's institutionalized violence in order to protect the State's interests. Fighting against communism, totalitarianism, has led to further State power; look at the all the countries involved in the World Wars in the past century and how many have ended up more interventionist as a result. Perhaps there is a time for war, but looking at history they haven't amounted to much freedom in the long run and you can only really have freedom when there's peace.
I do not deny that, it is true, my publication is not made to endorse many of the wars that have been carried out "recently" in which the interests are not to liberate but to expand, in terrain and influence, but rather to make some pacifists understand that it is a valid option against oppression.
I am a firm supporter of national and international non-interventionism, the State should not interfere in society, let alone be involved in problems that are alien to it.
If a regime, of any country, is tyrannical, only the people who live under that tyranny can and should rise up against it, but they should not expect any foreigner to solve the problem.
In what I differ is in the end, peace is not necessary to have freedom, but on the contrary, if it is necessary to have freedom to achieve true peace.
I agree, freedom is necessary for peace and everything else. They go hand-in-hand.
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