{"id":26607,"date":"2025-10-30T20:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=26607"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:41:03","slug":"war-a-basic-element-of-life-a-struggle-for-survival-a-perpetual-conflict-that-leads-to-a-perpetual-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=26607","title":{"rendered":"War: a basic element of life &#8211; a struggle for survival &#8211; a perpetual conflict that leads to a perpetual becoming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The much-hyped Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest has been canceled or postponed, the war in Ukraine continues, and there is no end in sight. Logic suggests that Russia, with its demographic and industrial potential, could quickly end the hostilities. Nothing of the sort is happening. Logic suggests that Ukraine should lay down its arms, as there is no way to regain lost territory, let alone win over its much more powerful neighbor. Nothing of the sort is happening. Logic also suggests that the West should work to end the hostilities, because if Ukraine ultimately loses, the situation in NATO and the EU will be politically worse. Nothing of the sort is happening. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Russia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia benefits from the war effort just as the US benefited from World Wars I and II. At that time the American economy was strengthened, as is Russia\u2019s economy today. Russia benefits from the war and from the fact that its society is rallying around its head of state. Just as it was the case with the United States in both world wars, so it is now with Russia, which is not directly affected by the hostilities. Obviously Russian soldiers die or are injured, but Russian territory and Russian citizens remain unscathed for all practical purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>European Union<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU is in decline. A decline caused by its deviant green ideology, by its indiscriminate acceptance of the influx of illegal immigrants, and by its economic problems caused by giving up cheap Russian gas. The welfare state is overstretched, governments and heads of state are increasingly unpopular, and far-right\/nationalist parties are on the rise. Not infrequently, people take to the streets to show their contempt for their leaders. The European dream is crumbling. So what are the EU administrators trying to do to save the situation? They are trying to find a scapegoat for all the negative phenomena. This scapegoat is Russia. A very convenient scapegoat. All economic problems and shortcomings can now be blamed on the aggressor from the east, the \u201cbad\u201d Russian. Europeans just need to understand what is at stake and rally around the EU Commissioners in a joint effort to defend the Garden of Eden from the serpent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The US has used the war in Ukraine not only to weaken Russia, but also to subjugate Europe (Victoria Nuland\u2019s famous phrase \u201cfuck Europe\u201d). Washington knows that Russia will eventually win, but in the process will remain busy, leaving Washington more room elsewhere in the world (see Syria, China). Europe has become economically incompetent, which is another gain for the Americans. A competitor has been removed. The competitor\u2019s dependence on Russian energy sources has been significantly reduced, while on the US it has increased. Washington has high hopes that some of Europe\u2019s industries and businesses will relocate to the US, which is already happening, which will further deindustrialize the Old Continent and reindustrialize the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the attitude of the three mentioned players towards the Ukrainians?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia: Russia recognizes the Ukrainians as a brotherly people. This is one of the reasons why Russian troops avoid destroying civilian infrastructure and cultural heritage. At the same time, Russian troops are fighting hard to kill Ukrainian troops who are practically led\/commanded by NATO officers and NATO technology. This alone will make Ukraine less hostile towards Russia. Also, the Russian army is destroying the Ukrainian army, as a result of which it will not be able to compete with the Russian Federation in the near future. And the destruction of civilian infrastructure will make it almost impossible to accept Ukraine as a member of the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>European Union: The EU does not care about life in Ukraine, although EU administrators say the opposite. Ukrainian lives are pawns on the geopolitical chessboard, cannon fodder, and are willingly sacrificed on the altar of fighting Russia. The paradox is that EU commissioners happily embrace \u201crefugees\u201d from Africa and Asia who are supposedly escaping the war, while they are happy to see all able-bodied Ukrainian men and women conscripted into the Ukrainian army and sent to the front. The European Union accepts thousands of men from the Third World, but it does not accept all Ukrainian men who want to avoid conscription (with the exception of the offspring of the Ukrainian elite, of course).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>USA: The US sees Ukraine exactly as Europe does. We are reminded of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the American political thinker who saw the world as a geopolitical chessboard, with nations as chess players and their territories as black and white squares on the chessboard. Consequently, you sacrifice a chess player or leave a square as the case may be. The US is one player, Russia or China is the other. Anything in between is the squares on the chessboard. That is all that is realistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is exactly how the administrators of the self-proclaimed West see ordinary people and their countries. European elites may incite war hysteria, but they themselves will never handle weapons or lie down in the trenches. Whatever they impose on the ordinary man and woman, these elites are not affected at all. They allow \u201cmigrants\u201d to invade by the millions, resulting in the average European living in squalid ghetto conditions, while at the same time EU commissioners live in places where they don\u2019t have to deal with foreign invaders. Is it different with war? No. Think of Ukrainian President Zelensky. How did he experience the three years of hostilities? He has traveled all over the world, has been warmly welcomed everywhere, and has given hundreds of interviews and made hundreds of speeches, issuing hundreds of statements. What about the members of the Ukrainian government, the Ukrainian parliament, what about the senior officers? Almost the same story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has always been this way throughout human history. Napoleon Bonaparte had half a million soldiers dead, frozen or maimed on the Russian steppes, but he himself made sure that he could escape the enemy and the frost in a comfortable carriage, wrapped in warm furs. What happened to Adolf Hitler and his generals? After the Soviets crossed the Oder, were approaching Berlin and defeat was at hand, they did not stop the war. On the contrary, they sent new waves of troops, teenagers and the elderly, adding tens of thousands of deaths to the huge total toll of defeat. To their credit, of course, many of them committed suicide, something that is not expected from the puppet Zelensky and his so-called Nazi supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the managers of world affairs, war is a game, a game that excites them because it is a game that is played in reality. It is not a computer game. Augustus II the Strong (1670-1733), Elector-Ruler of Saxony and King of Poland, conspired with Tsar Peter I of Russia to attack Sweden, in the territories that the latter held in the Baltic. The war, which began in 1700 and lasted until 1721, soon turned into a disaster for Saxony and partly for Russia after its outbreak. Augustus was forced to recruit new men either to defend his country or to help his Russian ally. When someone reminded him that so many people had died and so many more were about to die, he shrugged his shoulders and simply replied: People are like grass. The more you trample on it, the more abundantly it will grow back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire phrase of Heraclitus is: \u00ab<em>\u03a0\u03cc\u03bb\u03b5\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1 \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9, \u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b4\u1f72 \u03b2\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u03cd\u03c2, \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u03bf\u1f7a\u03c2 \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u03b8\u03b5\u03bf\u1f7a\u03c2 \u1f14\u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03be\u03b5 \u03c4\u03bf\u1f7a\u03c2 \u03b4\u1f72 \u1f00\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03ce\u03c0\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2, \u03c4\u03bf\u1f7a\u03c2 \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u03b4\u03bf\u03cd\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c0\u03bf\u03af\u03b7\u03c3\u03b5 \u03c4\u03bf\u1f7a\u03c2 \u03b4\u1f72 \u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u03c5\u03b8\u03ad\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heraclitus means that there is not only war between people with weapons, but a daily physical and social war, between the forces and contradictions in our society. Thus, war is a basic element of life. It is a struggle for survival. An eternal conflict that leads to an eternal becoming. With the constant creation of new things and situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But what is the role of wars with weapons? What is the current reality in Ukraine?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The destruction of Ukraine, materially, socially and politically, is a fact. Ukraine is now mutilated and destroyed. Russia, beyond the territories it has occupied and will occupy, is emerging as a regulator of European defense and politics, even if indirectly initially, and perhaps a global shaper of developments later. The Ukraine we knew no longer exists and is being transformed into a neutral, politically non-existent State that will have to live with guarantees and heal its wounds as a defeated state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the EU, NATO and the elites, words are unnecessary and the joke with the hare and the lion begins. The essentially non-existent entities in terms of warfare, believed that they could fight with the weapons and bodies of others. Unfortunately, they did not read the history of Hitler and Napoleon to take as an example, unless they seek the misery of their peoples to wash away their post-Cold War sins and illusions in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-166.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26609\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-hyped Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest has been canceled or postponed, the war in Ukraine continues, and there is no end in sight. 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