russian aggression must fail and be seen to fail. “Nie wieder” was and remains a pledge to act. The time has come for the old continent to abandon pseudo-pacifism, which enables the very violence it claims to oppose. 7/7 end www.nzz.ch/meinung/kein...

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The fourth is the threat of nuclear war. It is pseudo-pacifism’s strongest and weakest argument: strongest because the moral imperative of preventing human annihilation is indisputable, weakest because it fails to grapple with the very danger it invokes. 6/7

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The 3rd false premise is that the end of war brings betterment. Some wars end with the aggressor defeated; some with the victims enslaved. Still others end in intermissions. Should #Europe fail to help 🇺🇦 drive out the invaders, the expansion of russia’s war westward becomes inevitable 5/7

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🔴The 2nd is that non-violent resistance is universally applicable. When it comes to colonial conquest of forced assimilation, subjugation, and ultimately, the disappearance of a nation, it is not. 🇺🇦 isn’t fighting for an abstraction, 🇺🇦 is fighting because the alternative is annihilation 4/7

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Four dangerous misconceptions sustain Europe’s self-defeating reflex. 🔴 The first is that war is waged between two belligerents while good people suffer on both sides. A truism ad absurdum that erases the distinction between invading and being invaded. 3/7

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