(February 15, 2023 at 6:34 am)Belacqua Wrote:(February 15, 2023 at 5:19 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: he has published his latest book in Japan because he has been ostracized by several writers in “Le Figaro” or in “Le Monde”.
If you listen to the interview, he says that he published the book in Japan because the mainstream media in France is all in for war. As in the US, anti-war voices are sidelined. It was that way before Afghanistan and before Iraq.
Just to chime in on the "pro-war" detail.
I belive we are most of us anti-war.
The trouble is that a particular country decided to attack another country.
The Western world, led by the US, is trying to stop the war by returning to the previous status quo, where Ukraine retains its pre-war borders.... ideally including Crimea. I belive Ukraine wants that too.
I've heard quite a few voices claiming to be anti-war, but that just means that they want Ukraine to roll over and let Russia implement their puppet government (similar to Belarus) and let everyone carry on with their lives. Do the Ukrainians want to be ruled by a Russian puppet government? I'd say that the 2014 revolution and subsequent elections suggest otherwise.
At the heart of the matter, I think, we have who is responsible for this conflict.
Since the Russians are the ones who placed troops in another country, we say they are responsible.
The Russians claim that they were forced to do this by "The West", by NATO expansion, and so the US becomes responsible... and thus we have these two not-really-compatible points of view and the war continues until the smaller child gives up.
