THE WAR IN UKRAINE

To view what is happening in Ukraine as a war of Russia against Ukraine is naive. What we are seeing is yet another power play of some lethal powers of the world using a third country as their proxy theater without regard to human life or the misery it causes. None of these nations has a moral standing to judge the other or preach to the other given their own flouting of all international law and lack of humanity, even in the recent past, when it comes to others they consider lesser mortals. The root cause of this evil is the expansionist attitude on all sides. Humanity's fight should be against such attitudes and not against each other. As we edge towards a possible WW III, what is needed is not a compromise agreement between Russia and Ukraine alone, but a comprehensive commitment by all nations to abide by international law and to stop their own expansionism without finding excuses and rationale. The lesson for non-nuclear nations in these episodes is that what we call a world order is still a jungle where some carnivores rule, and the less powerful better not get in the middle but let the carnivores fight it out elsewhere. Let us hope that the lesson they will learn is not that they too should seek the most destructive weapons and become ruthless in the most unconscionable ways.