Ukraine: One step closer to world war! (CNCP)

This is a statement from the National Council of Popular Committees (CNCP) in the French Caribbean colony of Martinique.  During the recent French presidential election it was said that French territories in the Caribbean, I can't remember if Martinique was mentioned specifically, tend to vote left or socialist in protest, but voted for Le Pen in the final round.

The Position of the CNCP

(National Council of Popular Committees)  

UKRAINE: One step closer to world war!  

Western media empires have massively mobilized to persuade the public that what is happening in Ukraine is the result of the wickedness of a mad dictator named Putin who wants to prevent an innocent democratic country from joining the peaceful European family. Everyone should realize that in reality this is another premeditated step towards a third world war. This means that supporting one or the other of the camps that are clashing without having been validly informed is a guilty irresponsibility.  

Positioning NATO bases against Russia  

For several decades the imperialist powers have been preparing to confront each other. After the collapse of the Soviet Union that put an end to the "balance of terror" (the two main powers being endowed with a powerful nuclear arsenal), the camp of the Western imperialists, led by the US, was convinced that its hegemony was definitively guaranteed in a unipolar world.  

Except that nothing can stop the wheel of history. China has developed its potential in a dazzling way and is on its way to becoming the world's leading economic power; Russia has reconstituted itself as a rival power that must now be counted on. At the same time, the popular movements in the dominated countries have continued to grow, undermining the stranglehold of the Western imperialists on their sources of supply of raw materials and weakening the points of support of their military domination. On the other hand, their maneuvers of subversion aimed at overthrowing "hostile governments" are proving increasingly ineffective.  

This explains why, on both sides, the adversaries are preparing for war. All of them are significantly increasing their capital expenditure and positioning themselves strategically in anticipation of the decisive confrontation.  

The real Ukrainian challenge  

It is in this context that the situation in Ukraine must be analyzed. The Western camp set out to encircle Russia by setting up NATO bases and calling on NATO's neighbors to join its military pact. However, this is contrary to the commitments made at the time of the thaw between the two blocs and after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. Since then, the Russian power has also embarked on a war strategy to impose itself in the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine and block the country's accession to NATO. This is a conflict between rival powers and for both sides, the Ukrainian stakes are decisive.  

If Ukraine emerges victorious, strong, on the one hand, from the massive military and financial support provided by the US and the European Union, and thanks, on the other hand, to the "sanctions" taken by these powers to sabotage the Russian economy, the Western camp will have a solid base to attack Russia head-on. Any provocation would suffice as a pretext.  

If Russia succeeds in its bet, it will benefit from a buffer zone and will emerge strengthened, especially since , to face the sanctions, it is consolidating its ties with other countries such as China.  

But in both cases, the Ukrainian people and the other peoples of the world will lose.  

Because, in this case, the Ukrainian people are taken hostage  

By setting in motion their huge propaganda machine designed to pity the whole world about the suffering of Ukrainian civilians, the Western imperialists are showing repugnant cynicism. Their hands are still dripping with the blood of the civilians they have massacred around the world and they know well that, in history, there has never been a "clean" war.  

After a bombing in Yemen  [A photo caption?]

Since 2000, the Israeli army has killed 1800 children in the occupied Palestinian territories. Since 2014, 10,000 children have been killed or injured by bombs in Yemen. What media has ever interviewed a desperate mother? In seven years of conflict in that country, 377,000 civilians were killed. What call for solidarity has been launched? How many refugees have Western countries decided to take in? In this war involving a coalition led by Saudi Arabia – to which France sells arms – who has called King Salman a dictator and had his property seized?  

In truth, the war that is being waged in Ukraine today is certainly not intended to defend the interests of the people of that country.  

Let us repeat: the rival powers are on the way to an all-out war that will be devastating for all the peoples of the world. We are already suffering the effects of the economic war waged against Russia by the Western imperialists. The latter do not care about the collateral effects on their own populations. The multinationals and the big capitalists will continue to do well. Massive arms deliveries to the Ukrainian authorities will further inflate the profits of "arms dealers ". People will be crushed by the spectacular rise in prices, but the speculators who control world trade will get richer than ever. As for the "Russian oligarchs" whose yachts and bank assets have been seized, they must sneer because most of their financial cushion continue to prosper – alongside that of the Western oligarchs - in tax havens including In England!  

Let us add that one of the objectives of the "sanctions " is to make the Russian population turn against its government by making their lives deteriorate. Depriving nationals of the use of their bank cards, prohibiting athletes from participating in Paralympic competitions, this has nothing to do with an alleged defense of Ukraine!  

But when it comes to "economic warfare", we must also talk about the one that  the US is waging against its own allies. By demanding, for example, the blocking of Nordstream gas pipelines, they intend to enrich themselves by selling their shale gas, put obstacles in the way of the "competitiveness" of European countries and strengthen their dependence on them.  

Don’t Give Someone a Stick with Which They Will Beat Us!  

It will be understood that to support one side or another would be to give those who are the enemies of all peoples the means to dominate them. It is therefore essential to counter any propaganda that aims to manipulate public opinion.  

In all wars, the control of information and the battle of the image have always been decisive issues. We have denounced above the use of the suffering of Ukrainian civilians. But more generally, it is necessary to deconstruct the mechanisms aimed at demonizing Russia and idealizing Ukraine. 

 

Personally targeting Vladimir Putin and only talking about the damage caused by the Russian military intervention is intended to condition public opinion and above all to prevent it from obscuring the real understanding of the war, which we have exposed at the beginning of the article. At the same time, the Western camp is doing everything to hide the nature of the Ukrainian government.  President Volodymyr Zelensky has magically become the symbol of peace and democracy! Yet it is proven that he is in cahoots with far-right militias and that he has already bombed civilians in the Donbas region. (The weapons given to him also land in the hands of neo-Nazis.)  

Why, then, has the European Union denied the existence of the racist blockade of non-whites on the Polish border, when multiple testimonies attest to this reality, so much so that the African Union has risen to the occasion to denounce it.  

Speaking of information warfare, note that the European authorities censored all media that gave information contrary to their propaganda (RT, Sputnik, etc.)... while condemning the intolerable attacks on freedom of expression by the Russian government in that country. Because the opponents of the Westerners are also waging the information war and unfurling their propaganda.  

Ultimately, information warfare, economic warfare, and military confrontations in Ukraine bring us one step closer to a possible world war.  

There is no question, therefore, of being complicit with any imperialist, whoever he is !  

On the contrary, everything must be done to stop this infernal dynamic that would lead the world to a total war in which, as Paul Valéry would say, people who do not know each other would massacre themselves "for the benefit of people who know each other and do not massacre."  

That is why we say that the struggle of the Ukrainian people against the invader is legitimate. It is up to them not to allow themselves to be used either by the fascists or by a government in the pay of the Western imperialists. Likewise, it is up to the Russian people to fight against the war strategy of their government. In this regard, it should be noted that, while the media only give a voice to pro-Western opponents, the Russian socialist and communist parties, which are representative forces, have expressed their opposition to the war.  

In a context where all the imperialist countries have undertaken to fascisize their society, they subject their populations to the worst repressive measures, where the power of the multinationals and speculators is undivided, where governments in their pay sabotage all public services and all social gains, in the name of a barbaric ultraliberalism.  

At a  time when the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report dated February 28, 2022 tells us that "between 3.3 and 3.6 billion people (almost half of humanity) already live in situations that are highly vulnerable to climate change" the interests of the people are different !  

The urgency is for each people to fight for its true sovereignty, for everyone to turn their back on ultraliberal globalization, to embark on the path of independent and self-centered development, aimed at guaranteeing the well-being of populations, respect for the environment and living things, the interest of future generations and peace between peoples.