Revisiting the G-7, Ukraine-Russia War,
Hiroshima, and the Cruelty of Wars
By
Mahboob A. Khawaja
May 30,
2023:
Information Clearing House
-- How do you cure political
cynicism with intellectual foresights? The G-7
used to be a G-8 including Russia but since
2014, it was changed to an exclusive club of the
like-minded USA-European think-tanks for their
own politics and future-making. They share
political interests and values of their own but
not the sanctity of human life grounded in the
tenets of One Humanity based on equality of
human beings, justice, and respect for others
and always be open to listening and learning to
manage the phenomenon of change and sustainable
future.
If
Russia was still a 8th member of the
club, a reasoned dialogue could have emerged to
end the war between Russia –Ukraine and follow
it through with restoration of normalization
between the adjacent cultures of thinking and
actions. Despite the like-minded leader’s
deliberation, there were no much needed
initiatives of leader’s moral consciousness for
peace and conflict resolution. They invited
India, South Africa, South Korean, Brazil and
others who are in conflict with the US and
Europeans stance on the war; yet for economic
and face-saving overtures, their presence is
recorded and they do not offer any unanimity to
global community’s pursuits for peace and end of
the conflict.
Are You Tired Of
The Lies And
Non-Stop Propaganda?
Human
disconnect to truth has caused many catastrophic
disasters and contradictions to mislead the
global humanity. The military approach was high
on the agenda. Does it mean that the G-7
leadership lacks imagination for a peaceful
resolution of the emerging conflicts? A
reflective snap shot of a critical moment in
time pulse and movement of history reveals
absence of reasoned dialogue for the prevention
of the on –going conflict causing massive human
casualties, displacement of millions of
Ukrainian civilian refugees across Europe,
destruction of essential civic infrastructures
and furious competitive edge for success in an
ugly war between Russia, the West and Ukraine.
To glance ahead of the emerging horrifying
events coming out of the Russian-Ukraine war
fronts, We, The People of
global humanity must call for immediate halt to
all war machines and lingering suspicion of
one-sided peace and triumph.
Sometimes Western thinking cultures unimaginably
look for remote movements of time and destiny
for a navigational change. Often ferocious
scenarios of good, evil and wrong are used by
the policy makers to explain the contrasts of
the present. Paul Craig Roberts (“The United
States has been destroyed by its Ruling Elite.”
5/18/2023: Global research), claims that
“the US is moving toward a fatal split in the
society from which recovery is impossible.”
One
wonders, why the G-7 wanted to meet at
Hiroshima. Political tyranny and oppression
could not avert the bombing of Hiroshima.
Agreeably, civilizations and sustainable future
do not evolve out of the moral and intellectual
mire of military conquests, cruelty and
imperialism. Were they thinking to change the
history and its encompassing realism? But the
object of historic memory was not replaced with
hope for the present or the future. They did
nothing new to discard the old follies and
restore a new sense of imagination for peace and
harmony between the warring parties. The threat
of lethal nuclear weapons is looming at the
decision-making tables. The leaders could deny
it as a working option, be it the Western or
Russian.
Dropping of the Two Atomic Bombs Was a
Rush to Political Judgment
They
have learned to destroy the Earth but not to
protect its natural sanctity. Do the G-7 leaders
know how the living Earth and the living
Universe were created and function? And what
Laws of the Nature govern the global planetary
systems? What relationship does Man and Humanity
enjoin to the working of Earth and the larger
Universe? Be aware oh-fellow human beings, we
reside on a living Earth, not a dead entity -how
the planet Earth exists and moves at its axis
and rotates at 1675 km per hour or 465 meters
per second that is 1,040 miles per hour faster
than the scientific imagination:
“Behold! in the creation of the Heavens and of
the earth, and the alternation of the Night and
Day, There are indeed Signs for men of
understanding; Men who celebrate the praises of
God, standing, and sitting and lying down on
their sides, and contemplate the (wonders of )
creation in the heavens and the earth with the
thought): Our Lord! Not for naught Hast Thou
created all this, Glory to Thee! Give us
salvation from the Penalty of the Fire.”
(The Qur’an: Chapter 3: 190-191)
“And He created everything, and measured it in
due proportion.” (The Quran: Chapter 25:
2). There is a moral sense of spirituality and
humanity to co-exist in harmony with the rest of
all creations on this Earth. Modern wars
represent sadistic and cruel minds to undermine
human rights, dignity and life. They destroy all
that is built over the ages that we call human
cultures and civilizations. Using nuclear
weapons and ballistic missiles and other WMD
destroys Earth and its capacity to sustain life,
flow water, grow foods and produce oxygen,
support sustainable future of all living things.
Think again: Does the Earth not provide all that
was needed by human intellect, scientific and
technological progress and changing times?
Human beings were equipped by
Nature with intelligence, not ignorance or
arrogance.
After
78 years of the first atomic bomb dropped on
Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, there is no will
and defined system to question the aggressors
for destroying the lives of millions. All wars
have ripple effects as Japanese continued to
face the unraveling impacts of the first nuclear
bomb. The victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki know
it firsthand what is like to be living in a
man-made hell. The Japan’s PM spoke of nuclear
disarmament that is nowhere visible in the 21st
century.
What
the US did 78 years earlier, could conveniently
be repeated by any parties to the conflict.
Pat Elder (“Hiroshima and Nagasaki: North
American High School Textbooks Perpetuate The
Big Lie” 8/02/2013, Information Clearing
House), describes it in the following narrative:
“Quite simply, President Truman dropped
those bombs on a defeated Japan to tell the
Russians and the world to back off. We had two
bombs and we were going to use them. In a
typically cavalier fashion, Admiral William F.
Halsey, Jr., Commander, U.S. Third Fleet
remarked, “It was a mistake to ever drop [the
bomb]. . .they had this toy and they wanted to
try it out, so they dropped it.”
Admiral William D. Leahy, the President’s Chief
of Staff said, “The use of this barbarous weapon
at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material
assistance in our war against Japan. The
Japanese were already defeated and ready to
surrender.”
History Is Living and How Do We, the
People, Reflect on the Grieving Sense of
Humanity
Professor Rodrigue Tremblay (“The Moral Legacy
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Global Research: 8/06/2013), clarifies: “As
U.S. Christians, we are deeply penitent …..the
surprise bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are
morally indefensible.”(The American Federal
Council of Churches ‘Report on Atomic Warfare
and the Christian Faith, 1946).
“It
is my opinion that the use of this barbarous
weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no
material assistance in our war against Japan. ”
– “The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in
the future are frightening. (William Leahy,
Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (“I Was There”, p.
441).
If the
G-7 leaders wanted a new beginning refuting the
past imperialism and subjugation of the poor and
vulnerable nations, they should have focused on
specific workable strategies to call for an
immediate ceasefire and dialogue between
President Putin and President Zellensky. China
is pursuing a plan for peacemaking and so are
the few African countries taking initiatives to
break the deafening silence between Russia and
Ukraine for peacemaking. How come the G-7 has no
strategic plan to end the conflict? What if the
G-7 could replace the historic colonial cynicism
with optimism and see the 21st
century New World of opportunities and realism
and seek peace between Israel and Palestine,
between India and Pakistan on Kashmir; and a
global approach to climate change and harmonize
socio-economic and humanitarian affairs for a
sustainable future on this Earth.
The
unchallenging TRUTH arising from the emerging
conflicts and leadership failure call for new
THINKING and New People of ideas and ideals to
reject the violent assumptions of militarization
and egoistic triumphs by acts of genocidal
plans. We the People of globe
ask the conscientious leaders to avoid the
upcoming epicenter of cataclysm and listen to
voices of reason for an immediate ceasefire in
Ukraine, stop acceleration of military
confrontations between Russia, NATO, USA, the EU
and others. At the edge of REASON, war is
anti-human.
We, the People, wish to rejoice
truth, not evil. We, the people
of the globe possess understanding – how to
change the egoistic and embittered insanity of
the few hate-mongers and warlords into
equilibrium of balanced relationship between
Man, Life and God- given living Universe in
which we reside all. If the G-7 leaders were
proactive and men of REASON, they should have
focused on a reasoned dialogue between
Russia-Ukraine to end the war, not to extend the
Crimes of War by all, against all.
Dr.
Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international
relations-global security, peace and conflict
resolution with keen interests in
Islamic-Western comparative cultures and
civilizations, and author of several
publications including the latest book:
Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution:
Approaches to Understand the Current Issues and
Future-Making, Lambert Academic
Publications, Germany, 2017.
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