Should the USA
supply arms to the Ukraine government in addition to sanctions already applied
against Russia, which is itself a form of a declaration of war, could lead not
only Europe but the US itself into a nuclear WW3.
The U.S. has
imposed sanctions, unilaterally or with other nations, far more frequently than
any other nation in the world, or any multinational body in the world,
including the United Nations.
Economic sanctions
violate Just War principles and do not affect a country's military power but
rather directly affect a nation's citizens.
Sanctions do NOT
protect the innocent lives of civilians or preserve conditions necessary for
decent human existence and definitely do not secure the basic human rights of a nation's people.
Further, on the
basis of proportionality, the damage inflicted by sanctions is far greater to
the populace of a nation than questionable offences being avenged. And in no
way do sanctions present any probability of success when the outcome of
sanctions not being known shall be futile.
The EU by joining
following the Americas and British sanctions against Russia have in effect
declared an economic war against Russia.
Sanctions as a
means of peacekeeping and international governance, effectively escape ethical
analysis as we do not judge them by the same standards we judge other kinds of harm done to innocents.
Yet, concretely,
the hunger, sickness, and poverty which are ostensibly inflicted for benign
purposes affect individuals no differently than hunger, sickness, and poverty
inflicted out of malevolence.
Using or describing
sanctions as a means of "peacekeeping" or "enforcing human
rights" is an ideological move, which, from the perspective of concrete
national experiences throughout history is simply counterfactual.
Sanctions are, at
bottom, a bureaucratized, internationally organized form of siege warfare, and
should be seen, and judged, as such.
The EU and indeed
the Americans perhaps have awakened the Russian sleeping bear and the world not
just Europe this time is in grave danger of an all-out nuclear war, thanks to sanctions
and the arming of Ukraine with USA weapons.
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Thanks for your thoughts, comments and opinions, will be in touch. Peter Clarke