Live Encounters Magazine May 2022.
The International Division of Humanity by Mark Ulyseas
The rottweilers of war are on the rampage. Spin doctors are working overtime to creatively write for posterity a twisted version of their truths. The suckers on social media suckle on the free flow of these outpourings and regurgitate them across the net, complete with images claiming that these are the truths and that all other versions are fake or propaganda. And so, the chants for bloodletting rises, drowning out the outside voices pleading for sanity and comprehensive peace beginning with acts of non-violence. The prophets are gone now leaving behind the WORD with a retinue of such despicable creatures who feed and profit off the misery of others.
Why is this bloody cycle continuing regardless of so many loving hands at home constantly wringing to the tune of kumbaya.
Post-World War II has witnessed continuous conflict for oil, minerals and territory, which has been led by leading democracies that have weaponised the concept of human and civil rights, democratic values (whatever this means) and elastic ethics to bludgeon targeted adversaries (competitors). Patriotism is the last refuge for scoundrels, and these scoundrels emerge from among the people, a people who vote them to power naively expecting the elected to manage the country. The ungodly bipeds frolic with flints, starting fires across the world, solely for profit – first for personal gain and then followed by national interests, though they successfully make it appear the other way around.
International organisations like the UN, ICC (The International Criminal Court) and others are held ransom to the diktats of these democracies. The latest conflict has brought out the genetic racism that is embedded in the colonial heartland. The flag waving, colour combos of the nation at war fluttering on social media and the urgency with which sanctions have been imposed on the offensive nation is not surprising. After all, this is the home of the colonials who have pillaged, raped and looted other countries for hundreds of years. There is not even the slightest effort made to disguise this. Threats to other nations have been freely flowing such that the UN and ICC, in particular, have been castrated, reduced to a new kind of political speakeasies.
The word Nazi is generously and deviously used to defame anyone or any nation that does not genuflect before the power of the colonials. And of late, by the power of a minority that seeks to control words and terminology framed in the image of wokeness. To support these actions are spineless spin doctors tirelessly working to misrepresent the fraudulent actions of both elected scoundrels and their deluded followers as originating from moral high ground.
The decades old term, Nazi, is quite misleading. The founders of Nazism are the colonials themselves who have perfected the art of theft, looting and occupation by violent means. Mr Adolf Hitler just slipped into the role handed down to him by history. Focus on his legacy has been intense so as to deflect any interest in the colonials’ bloody global historical track record and the relevance it has in present-day machinations.
Some immigrant countries have merely followed suit and in many cases outdone their ancestors by their sense of superiority and murderous means to subjugate societies and countries beyond the fringe of the known civilised world (Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, Israel and New Zealand).
The International Division of Humanity (Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, Israel and New Zealand) on one side and the rest of the world on the other has been brought into the spotlight in the ongoing conflict in Europe. The shameless utterances by spin doctors are disheartening.
Media pundits, journalists, and political figures have been accused of double standards for using their outlets to not only commend Ukraine’s armed resistance to Russian troops, but also to underlying their horror at how such a conflict could happen to a “civilised” nation.
CBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D’Agata said on Friday: “This isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilised, relatively European – I have to choose those words carefully, too – city where you wouldn’t expect that, or hope that it’s going to happen.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/27/western-media-coverage-ukraine-russia-invasion-criticism
And then we have this reportage
Germany has displaced Afghan refugees from government accommodation to make way for Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion, according to reports.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-displace-afghanistan-refugees-ukraine-b2065664.html
This in a way sums it up
“You spoke about Ukraine, I remember what happened less than a year ago in Afghanistan where an entire civil society was thrown under the bus by the world,” said Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in response to a question asked by Norway’s foreign minister, Anniken Huitfeldt at the Raisina Dialogue 2022 in New Delhi.
https://theprint.in/diplomacy/look-beyond-ukraine-world-threw-afghanistan-under-the-bus-jaishankar-reminds-europe/931475/
The millions of Arabs and others killed in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan etc. wars by the civilised known world have been overlooked in this European conflict. The exceptionalism of European humanity outweighs that of the Arabs and others. Colonial mentality is a genetic disorder that appears to have now become intrinsic to political, social and economic attitudes. And this is all, if not in most cases, instituted by none other than a former colony, USA, that is on the other side of the Atlantic. Perhaps the hangover of the WWII is still prevalent in the European psyche for it is apparent to all but them that they are being led by the nose like cattle to slaughter.
War in any part of the world is reprehensible and must be stopped, not by supplying arms but by peaceful negotiations. But this is not happening in the Congo, Yemen, Palestine/Israel, Ukraine-Russia etc.
The basic spirit of humanity that seeks to redress conflicts through dialogue is now replaced with the supply of weapons, followed by sanctimonious sermons on that thing called democracy and the attendant civil and human rights and other sell by date colonial accoutrements. Even within such democracies racism and big brother governance is widespread.
For the known civilised world, it is business as usual. The demonising of the Russian people, their arts, music, sportspersons and business has reached levels where the intent appears to be to wipe them off the face of the earth by ostracising them and stealing their assets under the garb of sanctions. Sanctions that have become a lucrative business model.
Why didn’t we witness the known civilised world reacting in such a manner to the USA and Britain’s invasion of Iraq? No sanctions. No prosecution of Bush and Blair as war criminals. No flag waving by social media folks.
This behaviour only confirms that there exists an International Division of Humanity.
The horrors of war have arrived at the door of the exceptionals replete with the sights and sounds of another bloody blitzkrieg.
Could this be a replay of the terrible events that occurred in the last century?
Perhaps this may not come to pass if enlightened politicians listen to the Israeli General Moshe Dayan’s sensible advice, “If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.’
The problem is that countries in conflict are talking to their friends, who instead of advising them on a peaceful solution, are supplying them weapons of death, thereby revealing the virtues of the human spirit of arsonists (Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, Israel and New Zealand) that profit in mayhem, death and destruction.
This International Division of Humanity is alive, well, and thriving.
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om
© Mark Ulyseas
Mark Ulyseas has served time in advertising as copywriter and creative director selling people things they didn’t need, a ghost writer for some years, columnist of a newspaper, a freelance journalist and photographer. In 2009 he created Live Encounters Magazine, in Bali, Indonesia. It is a not for profit (adfree) free online magazine featuring leading academics, writers, poets, activists of all hues etc. from around the world. March 2016 saw the launch of its sister publication Live Encounters Poetry, which was relaunched as Live Encounters Poetry & Writing in March 2017.
In February 2019 the third publication was launched, LE Children Poetry & Writing (now renamed Live Encounters Young Poets & Writers). In August 2020 the fourth publication, Live Encounters Books, was launched. Mark’s philosophy is that knowledge must be free and shared freely to empower all towards enlightenment. He is the author of three books: RAINY – My friend & Philosopher, Seductive Avatars of Maya – Anthology of Dystopian Lives and In Gethsemane: Transcripts of a Journey. https://liveencounters.net/mark-ulyseas/
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