European Peace Project

Glenn Diesen writes correctly:
“To confront Russia, the EU will spend 90 billion euros it does not have to buy weapons from the US it does not have to arm soldiers Ukraine no longer has. We are told that security in the Middle East requires the defeat of Iran, security in East Asia requires the defeat of China, and security in Europe requires the defeat of Russia. We never discuss security in terms of learning how to live together by balancing interests and managing competition. This is deliberate. This is the hegemonic peace, where security depends on the defeat of rivals rather than on managing a balance of power.
In this spiral of escalation, where security relies solely on deterrence rather than reassurance, any saving diplomacy is dismissed as appeasement; peace agreements as temporary and deceptive; and war is redefined as peace. Rivals are granted no legitimate security interests, because their policies are framed as motivated by aggressive, irrational or expansionist behaviour. Speaking about the security interests of adversaries is supposedly a way of ‘legitimising’ their policies – which is treasonous. We are not to ask how the defeat of Russia, the world’s largest nuclear power, could be a rational security strategy, or why EU governments refuse even to speak with Moscow to discuss the European security architecture and end the war.
All empires can become irrational in decline. Leaders take greater risks to avoid decline, domestic legitimacy crises must be distracted by foreign enemies, outdated strategies from a long-past era of strength continue to be applied, and there is a tendency to reinforce narratives that one is indispensable, represents universal values, and dismisses all opposition as illegitimate and dangerous.”
Thus, they become fanatics, and it is our task to keep our promise of “NEVER AGAIN” and to stop the war madness of rearmament, escalation and hostile rhetoric!