IS
THE WAR BETWEEN UKRAINE, RUSSIA AND NATO MORAL?
In October 1962, in the midst of what history calls
the 'Cold War' between the United States and Russia, the world came to a head,
when Russia, in agreement with Cuban leaders, decided to put nuclear-tipped
rockets into the island, just two and a half hours away from the United States,
pointing to several major cities in this country.
This was not an idea born from the communist mind of
Russia or Cuba, but a response in accordance with the previous installation of
atomic rockets in Italy and Turkey, targeting all the capitals of the Warsaw
Pact countries, an organization of communist countries in opposition to NATO,
and to various Russian cities, as close as Cuba to Miami.
The United States, it was to be expected, could not
allow this threat so close to its territory, so by blocking the entry of
Russian ships to Cuba, closing the Gulf of Mexico with warships and fighter
planes, finally reached an agreement between John F Kennedy and Nikita
Khrushchev, to abandon such an idea. The world was about to fall into an atomic
war, but the common sense of both countries overcame the crisis, although the
Cubans were not very well pleased by this agreement.
At that time, everyone was happy about this result
that saved the world from certain destruction, but what no one found out, is
whether it was fair or not, the initial decision to place nuclear rockets so
close to Russia. If Russia had not made the decision to do something similar in
Cuba, causing a crisis very well covered by the Western media, it is most
likely that NATO's provocation of Russia would have gone unnoticed.
TODAY, the same thing is happening.
When the Soviet Union fell, and ended up splitting
into the Russian Federation, and other minor Euro-Asian and North-European
republics, one of which was the Ukraine; the Warsaw Pact was undone, and NATO,
which remained in force, assimilated many of these small republics, which had
previously been members of the Soviet bloc.
Although there was a treaty between the Russian
Federation and NATO, directed and totally dominated by the United States, not
to admit or establish nuclear rockets within the countries bordering the
Russian Federation, in practice this was not taken into account. Thus, nations
like Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, and others, entered the NATO pact, until
Ukraine also requested admission within this organization, and it was proposed
to establish high-range nuclear weapons, again within hours of Moscow and
others important cities of Russia.
This immoral provocation caused the determined
reaction of Russia to request peacefully, the non-admission of Ukraine to NATO,
nor the placement of long-range atomic material, for being a danger to Russian
integrity, in the same way as the Russian rockets in Cuba were for the United
States. The only difference is that, this time, the American president Joseph Biden
Jr, did not change his mind, as Khrushchev did in his time, but with the
argument that Russia cannot impose decisions on a sovereign nation like
Ukraine, Russia had no right to claim anything; regardless of the fact that
this same 'sovereign nation' argument was never granted to Cuba, which, on the
contrary, saw its sovereign right trampled by both countries, the United States
and Russia, without being consulted at all about the decision to desist the placement
of rockets on the island by Russia.
Before the event took place, on February 24, 2022,
Russian forces began to enter Ukraine, in order to avoid the plan for the
admission of this country into NATO.
WHAT IS THE CHRISTIAN POSITION?
As biblical Christians, we cannot support any war
that is not strictly defensive.
By 'defensive', we refer not only to the
counterattack against a direct and current aggression, but also to the
beginning of a preventive action, such as the Russian attack on Ukraine, which
despite everything, it was on self-defence on a nation that is really, ethnic
and culturally Russian.
Faced with this particular conflict, we must
distinguish between the right and wrong of both sides.
The very existence of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) is undoubtedly a provocation, since although its birth was
justified to prevent the advance of atheistic Communism to the Western
Christian world, the danger of Communism as a corruptible doctrine ceased when
Russia resigned to it under Boris Yeltsin in 1991. Now NATO is a provocation
against the free Russian Federation, which they continue to see as an enemy due
to their independent life from the bloc subjected to the United States.
This clearly shows that Communism was never the
reason for the existence of this organization, but to safeguard the world
dominated by the United States from any another influential power, Communist or
not, and this is demonstrated when in the midst of the Cold War, the United
States signed peace treaties with Mao Tse-Tung, founder of the communist
People's Republic of China against Russia, without caring about the abuses of
human rights in this Asian country.
The attack on Ukraine is justified as a preventive
act in protection of Russia's internal security, but after this, it wouldn't
be.
Any further advance by Russia to countries beyond
the border with Ukraine, or to other established neighbouring countries whose
NATO membership is already achieved, would be unjustifiable, since none of
these nations has the capacity to start an attack on Russia. BUT if all of NATO
were to start such aggression, as could potentially happen, it would in this
case be unfair on NATO's side and justified any act of defence on Russia's
part.
WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
God YHWH is in charge of everything in this world.
It will be the will of God, whether express or
permissive, what ends up happening in the near future.
Although we know that the world is coming to an end,
and the coming of Christ is closer than ever, we still care about the
development of these events and their consequences.
We must pray for peace, so that both blocs reach a
satisfactory and fair agreement.
We must help the people on both sides, because the
civilian population is innocent of these things, whether they are from Russia
or the Ukraine.
We must treat the soldiers of both sides with
respect, because they only fulfill their duty, and what their reasoning tells
them.
We must denounce and condemn physical violations,
summary executions, and other abuses of war that may occur, regardless of the
side that does them.
BUT let us Children of God keep the peace, knowing
that nothing in this world happens without the permission and will of GOD.
In safe hands we are all, both living and dead.
“GOD magnifies the nations, and destroys
them; He enlarges the nations, and scatters them.”
Job 12:23
Omar Flores.
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