Children of Peace

There is a huge discrepancy between what the international politics experts say and what goes in the minds of the ordinary mortals. Day after day these experts warn those who want to hear that the world is dangerous, that peace is periclitant, and that the balance of strengths we know is disappearing. A few months ago it was unthinkable to hear a German chancellor to say that the US is not a reliable ally, or a French president to talk about military intervention and weapon investment or even an English Prime Minister to say that military forces will be sent to a European theater. Today the only question is knowing when this will really happen. Moreover, it is like taxes: an inevitability. However, the general population does not seem to be aware of this cliff. We seem a drunk out of a clueless bar that they are unable to go home. The most distressing when we read history books is to know what happens next and we are invaded by that nervous that makes us want to travel in time to warn the dimension of the cataclysm that is about to happen. One of the main reasons that led to the Great War was the war will of the younger ones who no longer had war memory, which only associated the bloody battles with great deeds etermed in great works of art. In World War II, it was the irrationality of not wanting to immerse the world again in a nightmare and to think that a tyrant was only there at Czechoslovakia and Austria walk but would return home early. It was like giving raw meat to a lion and thinking that he domesticated him.

According to experts, increasingly concerned, nervous and slaughtered that come in every day in our homes to help us read the signs, it seems that the story can repeat itself. How, in what molds and how to avoid a new tragedy on European soil, no one knows. And as no one knows, the Jacarandás, the Prime Minister’s company, posters and the taboo of the admiral is discussed here. It was in a short time that the headlight of the world went out, America, now is Trump and no one, as goodwill he has, can associate Trump with any paternalism to which all American leaders have used us. Given this scenario, we already realize that Europe has to be Europe again, that is what we have left. Looking at its history, to be proud of its culture, peoples, wealth and values. And the problem is this: there are already many European generations that have grown in the shadow and acculturated by the US and not so much with pride in what the old continent represents, to which the European Union has come, built to the bumps from top to bottom. On the way, there were the values ​​that no one knows what they are, the national designs that we can no longer identify and even the French and the European culture that no one speaks or learns. Our generations have grown between Faroeste and McDonalds: we know more about American history than the history of Poland, Greece or Sweden. Let alone that of Ukraine.

If one day, which seems to be closer and closer, someone ask or demand that we send our children to a battlefield, we will not know why, to defend what and with what purpose. The great battle will be this: to defend what whatever it is necessary to know what it represents and the value we give what makes us fight. Russia’s great ally is this ignorance.