The West Democracies Proxy War via Ukraine Against Russia

"The hypocrisy of the great powers is such that they speak of peace while preparing for war; they extol humanity while practicing inhumanity." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The supreme international crime is war of aggression. To initiate a war of aggression… is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." - Robert H. Jackson

"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions." - Noam Chomsky

"History shows that the moral bankruptcy of empires always reveals itself in their willingness to sacrifice human lives for illusions of power and permanence." - Chris Hedges

The liberal and neocon democracies of Western Europe and North America pretend as being concerned with justice and freedom, but their actions in Ukraine reveal a more ruthless logic. Beneath rhetoric of liberty and sovereignty, power is brutally prioritized. These governments use the value of geopolitical leverage as a yardstick to test human lives. In a long game of empire, civilian casualties, destroyed cities, and whole populations uprooted from their homes are acceptable sacrifices rather than tragedies that need to be avoided.

What emerges is a striking indifference to human suffering, policy crafted with cruelty hidden beneath diplomatic language. Both Russians and Ukrainians are stripped of individuality, reduced to nameless pieces on a proxy war map chessboard of strategic advantage. Nearly two million soldiers and civilians have been killed or wounded in a war fought not for their freedom, but to preserve Western geopolitical sphere of influence and a closer strike of nuclear weapons on Russian territory. Well over $350 billion worth of killing machines, bombs, ammunition, planes, tanks, and deadly killer drones. Hundreds of thousands of young men and women if not millions taken to their death, tell this story more clearly than any speech.

Democracies that profess to defend humanity covertly via proxy war, approve of its slaughter when it serves their interests, demonstrating the obvious moral contradiction. To comprehend this is to gain a glimpse of the reality of power. Nations are governed by calculations rather than ideals, and in those calculations, territory and dominance are more important than ethno-generational history, flesh and blood.

However, memories are etched in history, people remember and tell the lived stories to the generations, and proxy governments/nations are not immune to such history.