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Title: Thought of war
Author: Rev Dia
Date: 30 November 2018
Language: en
Topics: war, Ukraine, anti-militarism
Source: Retrieved on 26th January 2022 from a translation of https://revdia.org/2018/11/30/duma-pro-vijnu/

Rev Dia

Thought of war

Ukraine has been at war for 4 years now. The conflict is escalating or

subsiding. There are many different positions on the war. Discussions on

how to react to this or that event in the country have been going on for

a long time. One of the popular arguments for participating in the war

is the idea of the “lesser evil”. Russia, compared to Ukraine, is a

totalitarian dictatorship with a strong repressive apparatus. Obviously,

if it captures Ukraine, all opposition movements will be unhappy. Russia

became famous for its brutal repression and torture of foreigners. And

it would seem that it is logical to support Ukraine in the conflict,

enroll in the anti-terrorist operation and fight for less evil. In our

opinion, this is completely absurd logic, and now we will understand

why.

The army is a hierarchical structure, where an ordinary soldier can not

influence the course of the war. Throughout the conflict, we have

repeatedly witnessed the authorities killing soldiers in cauldrons,

forbidding retaliatory fire. And very often the news space received

another news about the death trade. While the rulers traded cars with

the occupier, ordinary soldiers died in the cold trenches. The scum

earned money for a carefree old age in public procurement of necessary

things for the military. Avakov’s same backpacks are a prime example of

how high-ranking officials make money on people’s deaths. Let us

emphasize once again that the average person, and even more so a

soldier, cannot influence the state of affairs in the country. They want

to leave him in the boiler, and then appropriate the money allocated for

his ammunition, and they will. War officials are not afraid, they will

not die in the trenches, if these thieves feel the danger, they will

move to another country, taking with them the entire budget. And we will

remain to die and learn all the charms of Putin’s dictatorial regime.

Until we have the opportunity to influence the course of events, we will

remain a consumable in the behind-the-scenes intrigues of our rulers. If

we really want to influence the course of the war, we need to make sure

that something really depends on our position, for this we must take

power into our own hands. Without established structures of direct

democracy, we are nobody. That’s why these scum can so easily make a

living in our lives. First of all, we must make every effort to organize

a mass protest movement in order to be able to defend our interests on

the streets. It is indeed a very complex and time-consuming process, but

it is the only way out.