{"id":5095,"date":"2022-02-28T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bruxelles-panthere.thefreecat.org\/?p=5095"},"modified":"2022-02-28T19:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T18:19:16","slug":"une-vision-decoloniale-de-la-guerre-en-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruxelles-panthere.thefreecat.org\/?p=5095","title":{"rendered":"UNE VISION D\u00c9COLONIALE DE LA GUERRE EN UKRAINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a class=\"oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 q66pz984 b1v8xokw\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sandew.hira?__cft__[0]=AZUtzxunEFcjDmznbmPTqsJ0BIRqckSiLDh-yfKBsrIzqmiAbXcOeExaEaXtmwoBF84ZS8CVpIXzyZo1enD15bEhZu9vHooR6H_4ZTR4zqh3RlWYLAloYK6OzIINxfjeXZOqOIpLHVD-KvV3CzO8ALuGHGHYgkhKUD3rtyu-3IecyrjkJLstNXOIHX95ot6efEE&amp;__tn__=-]K-y0.g-R\"><span class=\"nc684nl6\">Sandew Hira<\/span><\/a>, La Haye 25-2-2022<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Introduction<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">L&rsquo;invasion russe de l&rsquo;Ukraine est une nouvelle mondiale. L&rsquo;analyse des m\u00e9dias occidentalis\u00e9s (y compris les m\u00e9dias du Sud qui copient les informations des m\u00e9dias occidentaux) est tr\u00e8s largement biais\u00e9e. Cette analyse fournit un regard d\u00e9colonial sur l&rsquo;actualit\u00e9. Les caract\u00e9ristiques d\u00e9coloniales de l&rsquo;analyse comportent deux points :<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Le lien entre l&rsquo;invasion russe et le concept d\u00e9colonial d&rsquo;une nouvelle civilisation mondiale.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">L&rsquo;analyse de la mani\u00e8re dont notre esprit est colonis\u00e9 par les m\u00e9dias et comment d\u00e9coloniser notre esprit.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">La mont\u00e9e et la chute de la puissance imp\u00e9riale occidentale.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Une vision eurocentrique de l&rsquo;histoire du monde repose sur le concept de \u00ab\u00a0modernit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb. Selon cette vision, l&rsquo;histoire du monde passe de l&rsquo;arri\u00e9ration \u00e0 la modernit\u00e9. En \u00e9conomie, le monde est pass\u00e9 de la phase de chasse et de cueillette \u00e0 la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 industrielle moderne. Dans les relations sociales, l&rsquo;humanit\u00e9 s&rsquo;est lib\u00e9r\u00e9e des contraintes sociales pour jouir des libert\u00e9s individuelles. En politique, le despotisme a \u00e9t\u00e9 remplac\u00e9 par la d\u00e9mocratie parlementaire. Dans la culture, la superstition religieuse est remplac\u00e9e par la connaissance scientifique. Depuis 1492, un nouveau monde s&rsquo;est cr\u00e9\u00e9, dans lequel l&rsquo;Europe occidentale a pris la t\u00eate des efforts pour sortir l&rsquo;humanit\u00e9 de la barbarie. Aux 17e et 18e si\u00e8cles, l&rsquo;Espagne et le Portugal \u00e9taient les leaders du monde occidental. Tous ceux qui ont v\u00e9cu \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque ont associ\u00e9 l&rsquo;Espagne et le Portugal au pouvoir imp\u00e9rial. Lorsqu&rsquo;un intellectuel de l&rsquo;establishment de ces pays s&rsquo;exprimait (il s&rsquo;agissait de th\u00e9ologiens chr\u00e9tiens), ses paroles avaient automatiquement du poids, car il parlait avec le soutien imp\u00e9rial. Maintenant, si un intellectuel de l&rsquo;establishment de l&rsquo;Espagne ou du Portugal s&rsquo;exprime, il n&rsquo;a pas automatiquement de poids, car il n&rsquo;est pas li\u00e9 au pouvoir imp\u00e9rial. Le pouvoir imp\u00e9rial est pass\u00e9 au cours des si\u00e8cles de l&rsquo;Espagne et du Portugal aux Pays-Bas\/Belgique, \u00e0 la France et \u00e0 la Grande-Bretagne.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Au XXe si\u00e8cle, les \u00c9tats-Unis ont repris le r\u00f4le de puissance imp\u00e9riale dans le monde, surtout apr\u00e8s la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ils ont veill\u00e9 \u00e0 la mise en place d&rsquo;un syst\u00e8me \u00e9conomique mondial qui leur a permis de contr\u00f4ler l&rsquo;\u00e9conomie mondiale par le biais d&rsquo;institutions financi\u00e8res telles que la Banque mondiale, le FMI et le syst\u00e8me de paiement SWIFT. Elle a \u00e9tabli 800 bases militaires \u00e0 travers le monde.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Le concept de civilisation mondiale<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">L&rsquo;ordre mondial actuel n&rsquo;est pas seulement l&rsquo;ensemble des institutions politiques. Il s&rsquo;agit d&rsquo;une civilisation mondiale. Une civilisation est un ensemble d&rsquo;institutions \u00e9conomiques, sociales, politiques et culturelles dans une r\u00e9gion g\u00e9ographique avec une base culturelle commune. La base culturelle commune est une combinaison d&rsquo;une vari\u00e9t\u00e9 d&rsquo;\u00e9l\u00e9ments : langue, religion, cosmologie, production de connaissances, etc. Le colonialisme a cr\u00e9\u00e9 une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 mondiale qui n&rsquo;existait pas auparavant. Chaque endroit de la plan\u00e8te est d\u00e9sormais connect\u00e9 \u00e0 n&rsquo;importe quel autre endroit par le biais du transport (terrestre, maritime, a\u00e9rien) et de la communication (\u00e9crite, audio, vid\u00e9o, num\u00e9rique). Cette connexion a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9e par la force brutale et non avec le consentement de la majorit\u00e9 de la population mondiale.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">La base culturelle de cette civilisation a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e pendant le si\u00e8cle des Lumi\u00e8res en Europe. Le nouveau monde cr\u00e9\u00e9 par les Lumi\u00e8res \u00e9tait la phase finale de l&rsquo;histoire du monde. Son fondement philosophique \u00e9tait le lib\u00e9ralisme. Comme le dit le philosophe allemand Georg Hegel (1770-1831) : \u00ab\u00a0L&rsquo;histoire du monde est n\u00e9e au sud-est, et elle s&rsquo;est repli\u00e9e sur elle-m\u00eame au nord-ouest\u00a0\u00bb. L&rsquo;Europe est le sommet de l&rsquo;histoire humaine, la fin de l&rsquo;histoire, ou comme le dit Hegel : \u00ab\u00a0la derni\u00e8re \u00e9tape de l&rsquo;histoire, notre monde, notre \u00e9poque.\u00a0\u00bb L&rsquo;histoire s&rsquo;est achev\u00e9e avec l&rsquo;essor de la modernit\u00e9 europ\u00e9enne. Sa base culturelle \u00e9tait universelle, et non pluriverselle. Sa production de connaissances \u00e9tait fond\u00e9e sur l&rsquo;universit\u00e9 : un r\u00e9cit europ\u00e9en qui vaut pour tous les pays du monde.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Les Lumi\u00e8res europ\u00e9ennes ont produit deux grandes philosophies de lib\u00e9ration : le lib\u00e9ralisme et le marxisme. Elles \u00e9taient li\u00e9es \u00e0 deux syst\u00e8mes \u00e9conomiques et politiques : le capitalisme et le socialisme. La r\u00e9volution russe de 1917 a fait du marxisme une force majeure dans la direction de l&rsquo;histoire mondiale. Pendant la guerre froide, le monde \u00e9tait divis\u00e9 entre deux grands blocs : le bloc socialiste dirig\u00e9 par l&rsquo;Union sovi\u00e9tique et le bloc capitaliste dirig\u00e9 par les \u00c9tats-Unis. La disparition du bloc sovi\u00e9tique avec la chute du mur de Berlin en 1989 et la dissolution de l&rsquo;Union sovi\u00e9tique en 1991 a marqu\u00e9 le d\u00e9but d&rsquo;une nouvelle \u00e8re.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">L&rsquo;Occident a revendiqu\u00e9 une victoire finale. L&rsquo;affirmation de la fin de l&rsquo;histoire a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9e en 1989. Pr\u00e8s de 160 ans apr\u00e8s Hegel, le conservateur am\u00e9ricain d&rsquo;origine japonaise Francis Fukuyama a avanc\u00e9 l&rsquo;affirmation de la fin de l&rsquo;histoire apr\u00e8s la chute du mur de Berlin : \u00ab\u00a0Ce \u00e0 quoi nous assistons peut-\u00eatre n&rsquo;est pas seulement la fin de la guerre froide, ou le passage d&rsquo;une p\u00e9riode particuli\u00e8re de l&rsquo;histoire de l&rsquo;apr\u00e8s-guerre, mais la fin de l&rsquo;histoire en tant que telle : c&rsquo;est-\u00e0-dire le point final de l&rsquo;\u00e9volution id\u00e9ologique de l&rsquo;humanit\u00e9 et l&rsquo;universalisation de la d\u00e9mocratie lib\u00e9rale occidentale comme forme finale du gouvernement humain&#8230;. il y a de puissantes raisons de croire que c&rsquo;est l&rsquo;id\u00e9al qui gouvernera le monde mat\u00e9riel \u00e0 long terme.\u00a0\u00bb<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ce triomphalisme ne durera pas longtemps. En 1978, sous la direction de Deng Xiaoping, la Chine a entam\u00e9 ses r\u00e9formes \u00e9conomiques en introduisant la r\u00e9forme du march\u00e9 sous la direction de l&rsquo;\u00c9tat et du parti communiste. En 40 ans, la Chine est pass\u00e9e d&rsquo;un pays agricole sous-d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;un des pays industriels les plus avanc\u00e9s. En 40 ans, elle a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvret\u00e9 absolue. Cela n&rsquo;a jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 fait dans l&rsquo;histoire de l&rsquo;humanit\u00e9. C&rsquo;est changer l&rsquo;ordre des mots.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Cinq cents ans de colonisation occidentale touchent \u00e0 leur fin. Et la Chine prend l&rsquo;initiative de fa\u00e7onner un nouveau monde. Le r\u00e9cit qui se cache derri\u00e8re ce leadership n&rsquo;est pas un r\u00e9cit politique bas\u00e9 sur les Lumi\u00e8res europ\u00e9ennes. C&rsquo;est un r\u00e9cit de civilisation, qui place la Chine dans le contexte de la r\u00e9surrection d&rsquo;une ancienne civilisation remontant \u00e0 2 000 ans. Le d\u00e9fi de la supr\u00e9matie de la civilisation occidentale vient d&rsquo;autres r\u00e9gions du monde. La r\u00e9volution islamique de 1979 en Iran \u00e9tait enracin\u00e9e dans la civilisation islamique. En 2006, le premier pr\u00e9sident aymara est arriv\u00e9 au pouvoir en Bolivie en faisant r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 la r\u00e9surgence des civilisations indig\u00e8nes des Am\u00e9riques et \u00e0 la fin de l&rsquo;\u00e8re historique de la colonisation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Le r\u00e9cit de la r\u00e9volution russe est ancr\u00e9 dans les Lumi\u00e8res europ\u00e9ennes, plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment dans l&rsquo;\u00e9cole id\u00e9ologique du marxisme. Apr\u00e8s la disparition de l&rsquo;Union sovi\u00e9tique, l&rsquo;h\u00e9ritier l\u00e9gal de l&rsquo;Union sovi\u00e9tique a tent\u00e9 de faire partie du bloc occidental. Avec l&rsquo;Occident, il a soutenu l&rsquo;Irak de Saddam Hussein dans sa tentative de faire reculer la r\u00e9volution iranienne lors de la sanglante guerre Irak-Iran qui a dur\u00e9 de 1980 \u00e0 1988. L&rsquo;Union sovi\u00e9tique ayant disparu, il \u00e9tait logique que le bloc militaire de l&rsquo;OTAN se dissolve, car il n&rsquo;y avait plus de menace sovi\u00e9tique. Mais ce ne fut pas le cas. La Russie a demand\u00e9 \u00e0 rejoindre l&rsquo;OTAN, mais celle-ci a refus\u00e9. L&rsquo;OTAN a promis \u00e0 la Russie qu&rsquo;elle ne permettrait pas aux pays de l&rsquo;ancien bloc sovi\u00e9tique de rejoindre l&rsquo;OTAN. Lors des n\u00e9gociations entre George H. W. Bush et Mikha\u00efl Gorbatchev, au moment de la d\u00e9sint\u00e9gration de l&rsquo;Union sovi\u00e9tique en 1990, Gorbatchev avait accept\u00e9 de laisser partir l&rsquo;Allemagne de l&rsquo;Est, \u00e0 condition que l&rsquo;OTAN ne se d\u00e9place pas \u00ab\u00a0d&rsquo;un pouce vers l&rsquo;Est\u00a0\u00bb. L&rsquo;OTAN a viol\u00e9 cette promesse et a autoris\u00e9 l&rsquo;adh\u00e9sion de la R\u00e9publique tch\u00e8que, de la Hongrie et de la Pologne en 1999, de la Bulgarie, de l&rsquo;Estonie, de la Lettonie, de la Lituanie, de la Roumanie, de la Slovaquie et de la Slov\u00e9nie en 2004, et de l&rsquo;Albanie et de la Croatie en 2009. Avec chaque expansion, l&rsquo;infrastructure militaire de l&rsquo;OTAN encercle la Russie. En outre, en 2001, l&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique s&rsquo;est retir\u00e9e du trait\u00e9 sur les missiles balistiques. Ce trait\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 conclu en 1972 entre l&rsquo;Union sovi\u00e9tique et les \u00c9tats-Unis. Il s&rsquo;agit d&rsquo;un trait\u00e9 de contr\u00f4le des armes portant sur la limitation des syst\u00e8mes de missiles antibalistiques (ABM) porteurs d&rsquo;armes nucl\u00e9aires. Apr\u00e8s la dissolution de l&rsquo;Union sovi\u00e9tique, la Russie est devenue un partenaire du trait\u00e9. En se retirant, les \u00c9tats-Unis ont fait comprendre \u00e0 la Russie que l&rsquo;encerclement de la Russie n&rsquo;\u00e9tait plus soumis \u00e0 des limitations d&rsquo;utilisation d&rsquo;armes nucl\u00e9aires.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Il y a deux raisons \u00e0 cette politique.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tout d&rsquo;abord, l&rsquo;OTAN est toujours coinc\u00e9e dans la mentalit\u00e9 de la guerre froide. La Russie est d\u00e9sormais un pays capitaliste, tout comme les \u00c9tats-Unis et contrairement \u00e0 la Chine o\u00f9 le parti communiste dirige le d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomique. Mais l&rsquo;Occident consid\u00e8re toujours la Russie comme une menace pour son h\u00e9g\u00e9monie et veut la soumettre, plut\u00f4t que de la reconna\u00eetre comme une partie \u00e9gale dans le bloc occidental. Cette arrogance a pouss\u00e9 la Russie dans la direction oppos\u00e9e, loin de l&rsquo;Occident.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Deuxi\u00e8mement, depuis le d\u00e9but de la colonisation occidentale, sa puissance militaire a \u00e9t\u00e9 le principal instrument pour imposer sa domination. L&rsquo;OTAN ne s&rsquo;oppose pas seulement \u00e0 l&rsquo;ancienne menace sovi\u00e9tique. C&rsquo;est la pierre angulaire militaire de la domination occidentale dans le monde. Permettre \u00e0 une partie aussi forte que la Russie d&rsquo;entrer dans l&rsquo;OTAN pourrait entraver le mouvement incontest\u00e9 men\u00e9 par les \u00c9tats-Unis pour des interventions militaires dans le monde entier.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Confront\u00e9e au refus de l&rsquo;Occident de consid\u00e9rer la Russie comme un partenaire \u00e9gal dans le monde et frustr\u00e9e par l&rsquo;h\u00e9ritage id\u00e9ologique marxiste-l\u00e9niniste de l&rsquo;Union sovi\u00e9tique, la Russie a d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 sa propre vision de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe. Selon Poutine, \u00ab\u00a0la Russie n&rsquo;est pas seulement un pays, c&rsquo;est vraiment une civilisation s\u00e9par\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb. S\u00e9par\u00e9e signifie s\u00e9par\u00e9e de l&rsquo;Occident.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Le d\u00e9clin de l&rsquo;Occident ne s&rsquo;exprime pas seulement en termes \u00e9conomiques et culturels, mais aussi en termes militaires. Les \u00c9tats-Unis ont perdu la guerre au Vietnam, en Irak, en Afghanistan et en Syrie et sont en train de perdre la guerre par procuration avec l&rsquo;Arabie saoudite au Y\u00e9men. La Russie a jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le crucial dans la d\u00e9faite des \u00c9tats-Unis et de leurs mandataires en Syrie. L&rsquo;encerclement de la Russie par l&rsquo;OTAN en Europe est un message selon lequel, dans l&rsquo;ordre mondial actuel, l&rsquo;Occident dispose toujours de la puissance militaire n\u00e9cessaire pour conserver son pouvoir imp\u00e9rial.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">La guerre en Ukraine<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">La guerre en Ukraine est le r\u00e9sultat du d\u00e9veloppement mentionn\u00e9 ci-dessus. \u00ab\u00a0Pendant des si\u00e8cles, l&rsquo;Ukraine a \u00e9t\u00e9 divis\u00e9e entre la Russie, la Pologne et l&rsquo;Autriche et depuis que l&rsquo;Ukraine a retrouv\u00e9 son ind\u00e9pendance en 1991, le pays est un terrain fertile pour l&rsquo;ing\u00e9rence de ses puissances voisines. Cela est d\u00fb en partie au fait que l&rsquo;Ukraine a \u00e9t\u00e9, tout au long de son histoire post-sovi\u00e9tique, un pays divis\u00e9 par des lignes politiques, \u00e9conomiques, religieuses et ethnolinguistiques\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e9crit Chris de Ploeg dans un livre bien document\u00e9 sur l&rsquo;Ukraine. L&rsquo;arm\u00e9e sovi\u00e9tique, puis l&rsquo;arm\u00e9e russe, disposent d&rsquo;une base navale \u00e0 S\u00e9bastopol, dans la p\u00e9ninsule de Crim\u00e9e. Lorsque l&rsquo;Ukraine s&rsquo;est s\u00e9par\u00e9e de l&rsquo;Union sovi\u00e9tique, elle \u00e9tait encore un alli\u00e9 de la Russie. Mais en f\u00e9vrier 2014, le gouvernement \u00e9lu de Viktor Ianoukovitch a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9vinc\u00e9 par une violente mobilisation populaire de nationalistes ukrainiens (le soul\u00e8vement de Ma\u00efdan) men\u00e9e par des forces d&rsquo;extr\u00eame droite, dont les nazis qui ont encore de nombreux adeptes en Ukraine. Ils ont \u00e9t\u00e9 soutenus financi\u00e8rement et politiquement par l&rsquo;Occident, comme Chris de Ploeg l&rsquo;a largement document\u00e9. L&rsquo;Ukraine est une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 multiethnique compos\u00e9e d&rsquo;Ukrainiens, de Russes, de Bulgares, etc. Environ 30 % de la population parle russe. En 2012, une nouvelle loi sur les langues r\u00e9gionales a permis de d\u00e9clarer officielle toute langue locale parl\u00e9e par une minorit\u00e9 d&rsquo;au moins 10 % dans cette r\u00e9gion. D\u00e8s que les nationalistes sont arriv\u00e9s au pouvoir en f\u00e9vrier 2014, ils ont tent\u00e9 d&rsquo;abroger cette loi et de reconna\u00eetre partout l&rsquo;ukrainien comme langue officielle. La population russophone du Donbass et de la Crim\u00e9e a fait les frais des forces ultra-nationalistes qui dirigent le pays. En Crim\u00e9e, qui compte 80 % de russophones, un r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum a \u00e9t\u00e9 organis\u00e9 en mars 2014 pour savoir si la Crim\u00e9e voulait rejoindre la Russie en tant que sujet f\u00e9d\u00e9ral, ou si elle voulait faire partie de l&rsquo;Ukraine. Les r\u00e9sultats ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9crasants : 97% des \u00e9lecteurs ont voulu rejoindre la Russie avec un taux de participation de 83%. Dans la r\u00e9gion ukrainienne du Donbass (majoritairement russophone), notamment \u00e0 Donetsk et \u00e0 Louhansk, la population a commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 s&rsquo;organiser contre les ultra-nationalistes. L&rsquo;arm\u00e9e ukrainienne a commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 pilonner ces r\u00e9gions ce qui a fait basculer la guerre du Donbass depuis 2014. En f\u00e9vrier 2015, un accord a \u00e9t\u00e9 sign\u00e9 entre l&rsquo;Ukraine, la Russie, la France et l&rsquo;Allemagne (appel\u00e9 accord de Minsk) qui devait garantir un cessez-le-feu, le retrait des armes lourdes de la ligne de front, la lib\u00e9ration des prisonniers de guerre, une r\u00e9forme constitutionnelle en Ukraine accordant l&rsquo;autonomie \u00e0 certaines r\u00e9gions du Donbas et la restitution du contr\u00f4le de la fronti\u00e8re de l&rsquo;\u00c9tat au gouvernement ukrainien. L&rsquo;Ukraine n&rsquo;a pas respect\u00e9 l&rsquo;accord.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">En 2019, l&rsquo;ancien acteur et com\u00e9dien \u00e0 la t\u00eate br\u00fblante Volodymyr Zelensky est arriv\u00e9 au pouvoir lors des \u00e9lections pr\u00e9sidentielles. Il a activement sollicit\u00e9 le soutien de l&rsquo;OTAN pour s&rsquo;opposer \u00e0 la Russie et reconqu\u00e9rir la Crim\u00e9e. Si l&rsquo;Ukraine devient membre de l&rsquo;OTAN et provoque une guerre pour r\u00e9cup\u00e9rer la Crim\u00e9e, cela entra\u00eenerait in\u00e9vitablement l&rsquo;OTAN dans un conflit arm\u00e9 avec la Russie. L&rsquo;article 5 de la charte de l&rsquo;OTAN stipule qu&rsquo;une attaque arm\u00e9e contre un \u00c9tat membre, que ce soit en Europe ou en Am\u00e9rique du Nord, est consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme une attaque contre les 30 membres de l&rsquo;organisation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">La pression exerc\u00e9e par Zelensky pour devenir membre de l&rsquo;OTAN constitue une menace existentielle pour la Russie, car une guerre avec l&rsquo;OTAN sera une guerre nucl\u00e9aire. Mais c&rsquo;est aussi un probl\u00e8me pour l&rsquo;OTAN, car une guerre nucl\u00e9aire n&rsquo;a pas de vainqueurs. Depuis 2014, la Russie tente de trouver un accord avec l&rsquo;Occident pour emp\u00eacher l&rsquo;expansion de l&rsquo;OTAN \u00e0 l&rsquo;est et mettre en \u0153uvre l&rsquo;accord de Minsk pour assurer une coexistence pacifique entre les diff\u00e9rents groupes ethniques. Zelensky s&rsquo;est maintenant engag\u00e9 dans un pari. Il a augment\u00e9 la pression en faveur de l&rsquo;adh\u00e9sion \u00e0 l&rsquo;OTAN et s&rsquo;est lanc\u00e9 \u00e0 fond dans la guerre dans le Donbass. Il comptait sur tout le soutien politique et moral qu&rsquo;il recevait de l&rsquo;Occident pour une situation dans laquelle une invasion russe entra\u00eenerait un soutien militaire de l&rsquo;OTAN. Dans la guerre de propagande contre la Russie, il semblait \u00eatre le golden boy de la rh\u00e9torique occidentale, malgr\u00e9 les d\u00e9clarations r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9es des dirigeants occidentaux selon lesquelles les seules mesures qu&rsquo;ils envisagent ne sont pas un soutien militaire, mais des sanctions \u00e9conomiques. Mais Zelensky esp\u00e9rait ardemment que, le moment venu, lorsque les Russes envahiraient l&rsquo;Ukraine, l&rsquo;Occident changerait d&rsquo;avis. Mais lorsque le moment est venu, il a vu que son pari a \u00e9chou\u00e9. Apr\u00e8s l&rsquo;invasion, Zelensky a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 avoir contact\u00e9 des \u00ab\u00a0partenaires\u00a0\u00bb en Occident pour leur dire que le sort de l&rsquo;Ukraine \u00e9tait en jeu. \u00ab\u00a0Je leur ai demand\u00e9 &#8211; \u00eates-vous avec nous ?\u00a0\u00bb a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Zelensky. \u00ab\u00a0Ils ont r\u00e9pondu qu&rsquo;ils sont avec nous, mais qu&rsquo;ils ne veulent pas nous prendre dans l&rsquo;alliance. J&rsquo;ai demand\u00e9 \u00e0 27 dirigeants europ\u00e9ens, si l&rsquo;Ukraine sera dans l&rsquo;OTAN, je leur ai demand\u00e9 directement &#8211; tous ont peur et n&rsquo;ont pas r\u00e9pondu. Nous sommes rest\u00e9s seuls. Qui est pr\u00eat \u00e0 faire la guerre pour nous ? Honn\u00eatement, je ne vois personne. Qui est pr\u00eat \u00e0 donner \u00e0 l&rsquo;Ukraine des garanties d&rsquo;adh\u00e9sion \u00e0 l&rsquo;OTAN ? Honn\u00eatement, tout le monde a peur.\u00a0\u00bb<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Poutine a \u00e9t\u00e9 clair. La Russie d\u00e9truirait toute installation militaire repr\u00e9sentant une menace pour le pays, et \u00e9tait pr\u00eate \u00e0 utiliser des armes nucl\u00e9aires en cas de r\u00e9ponse de l&rsquo;OTAN. Et l&rsquo;OTAN s&rsquo;av\u00e8re maintenant \u00eatre un tigre de papier. Tous les discours sur les dures r\u00e9percussions excluent une r\u00e9ponse militaire. Il n&rsquo;est question que de sanctions \u00e9conomiques, allant jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 la com\u00e9die. L&rsquo;Occident a promis de frapper tr\u00e8s fort Poutine et son ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res Lavrov, en gelant leurs avoirs \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9tranger. La porte-parole du minist\u00e8re russe des affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res, Maria Zakharova, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 que ni Poutine ni Lavrov n&rsquo;avaient d&rsquo;actifs en dehors de la Russie. Pour l&rsquo;Occident, cela n&rsquo;a de toute fa\u00e7on aucune importance. Ils vont geler des avoirs inexistants.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">D\u00e9colonisation de l&rsquo;esprit et lutte pour une nouvelle civilisation mondiale.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pour couvrir son impuissance militaire, l&rsquo;Occident a mis en place une campagne m\u00e9diatique intensive non pas pour informer le monde, mais pour mobiliser les sentiments populaires contre la Russie avec des m\u00e9canismes de colonisation de l&rsquo;esprit.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Le premier m\u00e9canisme est la d\u00e9sinformation. Vous ne verrez pas l&rsquo;analyse et les faits fournis ici dans les grands m\u00e9dias occidentaux, de sorte qu&rsquo;une personne moyenne fonde son opinion sur des faits limit\u00e9s et pr\u00e9s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9s. Les m\u00e9dias occidentaux ne respectent pas le principe journalistique consistant \u00e0 accorder le m\u00eame temps \u00e0 tous les aspects de l&rsquo;histoire. Les m\u00e9dias occidentaux pr\u00e9sentent de petits \u00e9l\u00e9ments d&rsquo;information du point de vue russe et rarement l&rsquo;ensemble du tableau, et jamais avec la m\u00eame intensit\u00e9 qu&rsquo;ils le font avec les dirigeants de l&rsquo;OTAN.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Le deuxi\u00e8me m\u00e9canisme consiste \u00e0 transformer la victime en coupable et vice versa. Comme d&rsquo;habitude, le conflit entre la Russie et l&rsquo;Occident est d\u00e9peint comme un conflit entre le bien et le mal et Poutine est la personnification du mal. Implicitement, les dirigeants occidentaux sont la personnification du bien. Ce m\u00e9canisme a \u00e9t\u00e9 utilis\u00e9 au d\u00e9but de la colonisation occidentale, lorsque les indig\u00e8nes \u00e9taient d\u00e9peints comme des cr\u00e9atures mal\u00e9fiques sans t\u00eate ni yeux sur la poitrine. Dans chaque conflit entre le colonisateur et le colonis\u00e9, le colonisateur est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comme bon et ses adversaires comme mauvais. Dans le cas de l&rsquo;Ukraine, les horreurs de la guerre sur la population ukrainienne sont montr\u00e9es dans tous leurs d\u00e9tails horribles, mais les victimes du Donbass ne b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient pas de la m\u00eame couverture.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Le troisi\u00e8me m\u00e9canisme consiste \u00e0 transformer une d\u00e9faite en victoire. La Russie a effectivement d\u00e9jou\u00e9 le bluff de l&rsquo;OTAN et d\u00e9truit son infrastructure militaire en Ukraine en moins de 24 heures. La r\u00e9p\u00e9tition sans fin de l&rsquo;effet d\u00e9vastateur des sanctions \u00e9conomiques, y compris la menace de geler des avoirs inexistants, sur la Russie sert \u00e0 masquer cette d\u00e9faite et est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e comme la voix d&rsquo;un empire puissant.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Le quatri\u00e8me m\u00e9canisme consiste \u00e0 mettre en \u0153uvre l&rsquo;intimidation de ceux qui s&rsquo;opposent \u00e0 l&rsquo;imp\u00e9rialisme occidental. Si vous n&rsquo;\u00eates pas pour moi, alors vous \u00eates pour Poutine. Et comme Poutine est mauvais, vous l&rsquo;\u00eates aussi. Et il faut s&rsquo;occuper des personnes malfaisantes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Le r\u00f4le des mouvements sociaux.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Avant la chute de l&rsquo;URSS, le monde avait un fort mouvement anti-imp\u00e9rialiste. Apr\u00e8s la chute, les mouvements sociaux sont partis \u00e0 la recherche de nouvelles th\u00e9ories de lib\u00e9ration. De nombreux mouvements se tournent vers des th\u00e9ories qui mettent l&rsquo;accent sur la lib\u00e9ration individuelle, plut\u00f4t que sur la lib\u00e9ration sociale. Cela a affaibli le mouvement anti-imp\u00e9rialiste.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Le moment est venu de construire de nouveaux mouvements sociaux qui s&rsquo;attaquent aux grands probl\u00e8mes \u00e9conomiques, sociaux, politiques et culturels. Le d\u00e9clin de la civilisation occidentale est plein de p\u00e9rils de guerres d\u00e9vastatrices. La troisi\u00e8me guerre mondiale est toujours imminente, quel que soit le conflit dans le monde. Le monde a besoin d&rsquo;un mouvement social qui se concentre sur la question de la paix et d&rsquo;une nouvelle civilisation mondiale bas\u00e9e sur la pluriformit\u00e9.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Un mouvement qui dise \u00ab\u00a0NON !\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 toutes les guerres, et pas seulement \u00e0 la guerre en Ukraine. Nous avons un long chemin \u00e0 parcourir avant que ce mouvement n&rsquo;arrive \u00e0 maturit\u00e9, mais comme l&rsquo;a dit un philosophe chinois : un voyage de mille kilom\u00e8tres commence par un seul pas.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Note : Cette analyse est bas\u00e9e sur le chapitre 8 de mon livre \u00e0 para\u00eetre : D\u00e9coloniser l&rsquo;esprit. Imaginer une nouvelle civilisation mondiale.\u00a0\u00bb<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/din.today\/news\/a-decolonial-view-of-the-war-in-ukraine\/?fbclid=IwAR2p5r1G8ZFGAzLQRR5Mbxytjk3T2Kc_WghzKV1LISHee38Dsq9vzdCRskg\">SOURCE\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">A DECOLONIAL VIEW OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE<\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/din.today\/author\/dintoday\/\" rel=\"author\">DINTODAY<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Sandew Hira, The Hague 25-2-2022<\/p>\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine is world news. The analysis in the Westernized media (this includes media in the global South that copies the news from Western media) is overwhelmingly biased. This analysis provides a decolonial lens of the news. The decolonial characteristics of the analysis entails two points:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The link between the Russian invasion and the decolonial concept of a new world civilization.<\/li>\n<li>The analysis of how our mind is being colonized by the media and how to decolonize our mind.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>The rise and fall of Western imperial power<\/h3>\n<p>A Eurocentric view of world history lies in the concept of \u201cmodernity\u201d. According to this view world history moves from backwardness to modernity. In economics the world went through the phase of hunting and gathering to the modern industrial society. In social relations humankind has freed itself from social constraints to enjoy individual liberties. In politics despotism is replaced by parliamentary democracy. In culture religious superstition is substituted by scientific knowledge. Since 1492 a new world was created in which Western Europe took the lead in uplifting mankind from barbarism. In the 17th and 18th century Spain and Portugal were the leaders of the Western world. Everyone who lived in this era associated Spain and Portugal with imperial power. When an intellectual from the establishment of these countries in those time spoke (they were Christian theologians), their words automatically carried weight, because they spoke with the imperial backing behind them. Now if an intellectual from the establishment of Spain or Portugal speaks, it does not automatically carry weight, because it is not linked to imperial power. The imperial power shifted during the centuries from Spain and Portugal to the Netherlands\/Belgium, France and Britain.<\/p>\n<p>In the 20th century the US took over the role of the imperial power in the world, especially after World War II. It ensured that a global economic system came into place that enabled to control the world economic through financial institutions ad the World Bank, IMF and the SWIFT payment system. It established 800 military bases across the world.<\/p>\n<h3>The concept of a world civilization<\/h3>\n<p>The current world order is not just the totality of political institutions. It is a world civilization. A civilization is a collection of economic, social, political and cultural institutions in a geographical region with a common cultural base. The common cultural base is a combination of a variety of elements: language, religion, cosmology, knowledge production etc. Colonialism has created a world society that did not exist before. Every place on the planet is now connected to any other place through transportation (land, sea, air) and communication (print, audio, video, digital). This connection was made by brutal force and not with the consent of the majority of the world population.<\/p>\n<p>The cultural basis of this civilization was developed during the European Enlightenment. The new world created by the Enlightenment was the end phase of world history. Its philosophical foundation was liberalism. As German philosopher Georg Hegel (1770-1831) puts is: \u201cW<em>orld history has arisen in the southeast, and it has subsided into itself to the northwest<\/em>.\u201d Europe is the pinnacle of human history, the end of history, or as Hegel puts it: \u201c<em>the<\/em>\u00a0<em>last stage in History, our world, our own time<\/em>.\u201d History has come to an end with the rise of European modernity. The cultural basis was universal, not pluriversal. Its knowledge production was based on university: one narrative from Europe that holds for everyone in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The European Enlightenment produced two major philosophies of liberation: Liberalism and Marxism. The were linked to two economic and political system: capitalism and socialism. The Russian Revolution of 1917 brought Marxism as a major force in directing world history. During the Cold War world was divided between two major blocs: the socialist led by the Soviet Union and the capitalist bloc led by the US. The demise of the Soviet bloc with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 signalled a new era.<\/p>\n<p>The West claimed a final victory. The claim of the end of history was repeated in 1989, Almost 160 years later after Hegel the Japanese American conservative Francis Fukuyama put forward the claim of the end of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall:\u00a0<em>\u201cWhat we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind\u2019s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government\u2026. there are powerful reasons for believing that it is the ideal that will govern the material world in the long run.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This triumphalism would not last long. In 1978 China under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping started its economic reforms with the introduction of market reform under the leadership of the state and the Communist Party. Within 40 years it transformed China from an underdeveloped agricultural country into one the most advanced industrial countries. In 40 years it uplifted 800 million people from absolute poverty. This has never been done in the history of mankind. It is changing the word order.<\/p>\n<p>Five hundred years of Western colonization is coming to a end. And China is taking the lead in shaping a new world. The narrative behind this lead is not a political narrative based on the European Enlightenment. It is a civilization narrative, the places China in the context of the resurrection of an ancient civilization that goes back 2,000 years ago. The challenge of the supremacy of Western civilization comes from other regions in the world. The Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran was rooted in the Islamic civilization. In 2006 the first Aymara president came to power in Bolivia with reference to the resurgence of the indigenous civilizations of the Americas and the end to the historic era of colonization.<\/p>\n<p>The narrative of the Russian revolution was rooted in the European Enlightenment, more specifically in the ideological school of Marxism. After the demise of the Soviet Union the legal heir of the Soviet Union tried to become part of the Western bloc. Together with the West it supported Iraq under Saddam Hussein in trying to roll back the Iranian revolution in the bloody Iraq-Iran war that lasted from 1980-1988. With the Soviet Union gone, it was logical for the military bloc of NATO to dissolve, because there was not Soviet threat anymore. But it did not. Russia asked to join NATO, but NATO refused. Russia was promised by NATO that it would not allow countries from the former Soviet bloc to join NATO. In the negotiations between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev, during the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1990 Gorbachev had agreed to let go of East Germany, under the condition that NATO would not move \u201can inch to the East\u2019\u2019. NATO violated that promise and allowed membership of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland in 1999, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia in 2004, and Albania and Croatia in 2009. With each expansion the military infrastructure of NATO is encircling Russia. Furthermore, in 2001 America withdrew from the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty. This treaty was concluded in 1972 between the Soviet Union and the US. It is an arms control treaty on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems carrying nuclear weapons. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union Russia became a partner in the treaty. With the withdrawal the US gave a signal to Russia that the encirclement of Russia was free of the limitations for using nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>There are two reasons for this policy.<\/p>\n<p>First, NATO is still stuck in the cold war mentality. Russia is now a capitalist country, just like the US and unlike China where the Communist Part leads the economic development. But the West still regards Russia as a threat to its hegemony and wants to subdue Russia, rather than acknowledge her as a equal party in the Western bloc. This arrogance pushed Russia in the opposite direction, away from the West.<\/p>\n<p>Second, since the start of western colonization its military might was the main instrument in enforcing its domination. NATO is not only against the former Soviet threat. It is the military cornerstone of Western domination in the world. Allowing a strong party as Russia into NATO could hamper the unchallenged drive led by the US for military interventions across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Confronted with the refusal of the West to have Russia as an equal partner in the world and frustrated by the Marxist-Leninist ideological legacy of the Soviet Union Russia developed its own view of the Russian society. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2020\/05\/18\/russia-is-a-distinct-civilization-putin-says-a70295\">Putin<\/a>\u00a0<em>\u201cRussia is not just a country, it\u2019s really a separate civilization.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Separate means separate from the West.<\/p>\n<p>The decline of the West is not only expressed in economic and cultural terms, but also in military term. The US lost the war in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and is losing the proxy war together with Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Russia played a crucial role in defeating the US and it\u2019s proxies in Syria. The NATO encirclement of Russia in Europe is a message that in the existing world order the West still has a military might to hold on to its imperial power.<\/p>\n<h3>The war in Ukraine<\/h3>\n<p>The war in Ukraine is the result of the above mentioned development.\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em><em>For centuries, Ukraine has been split between Russia, Poland and Austria and ever since Ukraine regained its independence in 1991, the country has been a fertile soil for interference by its neighboring powerhouses. This is partially because Ukraine has, throughout its post-soviet history, been a country divided by political, economic, religious and ethnolinguistic lines,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0writes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ukraine-Crossfire-Chris-Kaspar-Ploeg-ebook\/dp\/B071D1TZB9\/\">Chris de Ploeg<\/a>\u00a0in a well documented book on Ukraine. The Soviet military, and later the Russian military, has a naval base in Sevastopol in the Crimean peninsula. When Ukraine split from the Soviet Union it was still an ally of Russia. But in February 2014, the elected government of Viktor Yanukovych was ousted by a violent popular mobilization of Ukrainian nationalists (the Maidan uprising) led by forces from the extreme right including the Nazi\u2019s who still have a large following in Ukraine. They were supported financially and politically by the West, as Chris de Ploeg has documented extensively. Ukraine is a multi-ethnic society with Ukrainians, Russians, Bulgarians etc. Some 30% of the population speaks Russian. In 2012, a new law on regional languages entitles any local language spoken by at least a 10 percent minority be declared official within that area. As soon as the nationalists came to power in February 2014 they tried to repeal that law and acknowledge only Ukraine as the state language everywhere. \u00a0The Russian speaking population in the Donbass and Crimea felt the brunt of the ultra nationalist forces ruling the country. In Crimea with 80% Russian speakers a referendum was held in March 2014 on whether Crimea wanted to join Russia as a federal subject, or if they wanted to be a part of Ukraine. The results were overwhelming: 97% of the voters wanted to join Russia with a turnout of 83 percent. In the Donbass region of Ukraine (mostly Russian speakers), especially in\u00a0 Donetsk and Luhansk, the population began to organize against the ultra-nationalists. The Ukrainian army began to shell these regions which brought the Donbass war in full swing since 2014. In February 2015 an agreement was signed between Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany (the so called Minsk agreement) that should ensure a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front line, release of prisoners of war, constitutional reform in Ukraine granting self-government to certain areas of Donbas and restoring control of the state border to the Ukrainian government. Ukraine ignored the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 the hot headed former actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelensky came to power in presidential elections. He actively sough NATO support to stand up against Russia and regain Crimean. If Ukraine becomes a member of NATO, and provokes a war to regain Crimea, this would inevitable draw NATO into an armed conflict with Russia. Article 5 of the NATO charter stipulates that an armed attack against any member state, whether in Europe or North America, is regarded as an attack against all 30 members of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky\u2019s pressure to become a member of NATO is an existential threat to Russia, because a war with NATO will be a nuclear war. But that is also a problem for NATO, because a nuclear war has no victors. Since 2014 Russia has tried to reach an agreement with the West to prevent the expansion of NATO to the east and implement the Minsk agreement to ensure a peaceful coexistence between the different ethnic groups. Zelensky now engaged in a gamble. He increased pressure for membership of NATO and went full ahead with the war in the Donbass. He counted on all the political and moral support he was getting from the West for a situation in which a Russian invasion would lead to military support of NATO. In the propaganda war against Russia he seemed to be the golden boy in the rhetoric\u2019s of the West, despite the repeated declarations of Western leader that the only measures they are contemplating was not military support, but economic sanctions. But Zelensky ardently hoped that when the time was there that the Russians would invade Ukraine, the West would change its mind. But when the time came, he saw that his gamble failed. After the invasion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/550546-zelensky-nato-ukraine-neutrality\/\">Zelensky<\/a>\u00a0said he had reached out to\u00a0<em>\u201cpartners\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in the West to tell them that Ukraine\u2019s fate was at stake.\u00a0<em>\u201cI asked them \u2013 are you with us?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Zelensky said.\u00a0<em>\u201cThey answered that they are with us, but they don\u2019t want to take us into the alliance. I\u2019ve asked 27 leaders of Europe, if Ukraine will be in NATO, I\u2019ve asked them directly\u00a0\u2013 all are afraid and did not respond. We were left by ourselves. Who is ready to go to war for us? Honestly, I don\u2019t see anybody. Who is ready to give Ukraine guarantees of NATO membership? Honestly, everybody is afraid.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Putin had made it clear. Russia would destroy all military installation that poses a threat to the country, and was prepared to use nuclear weapons in case of a NATO response. And NATO now turns out to be a paper tiger. All speeches about hard repercussions excluded a military response. It is all about economic sanctions, even to the level of comedy. The West promised to hit Putin and his Foreign Minister Lavrov very hard, by freezing their foreign assets. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that neither Putin nor Lavrov have any assets outside Russia. For the West it does matter anyway. They are going to freeze non-existent assets.<\/p>\n<h3>Decolonizing The Mind and the fight for a new world civilization<\/h3>\n<p>To cover up for its military impotence the West has setup an intensive media campaign not to inform the world, but to mobilize popular sentiments against Russia with mechanisms for colonizing the mind. The first mechanism is disinformation. You will not see the analysis and facts provided here in the mainstream Western media, so an average person bases his\/her opinion on limited and pre-selected facts. Western media don\u2019t abide by the journalistic principle of giving equal time to all sides of the story. Western media present small pieces of information from the Russian perspective and seldom the whole picture and never with the same intensity as they do with NATO leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The second mechanism is to turn the victim into a perpetrator and vice versa. As usual the conflict between Russia and the West is portrayed as a conflict good and evil and Putin is the personification of evil. Implicitly Western leaders are the personification of good. This mechanism was used in the start of Western colonization when the Indigenous people were portrayed as evil creatures without a head and eyes on their chest. In every conflict between the colonizer and the colonized the colonizer is present as good and its adversaries as evil. In the case of Ukraine the horrors of war of the Ukrainian population is shows in all its horrific details, but the victims in the Donbass don\u2019t get the same coverage.<\/p>\n<p>The third mechanism is to turn a defeat into a victory. Russia effectively defeated the NAT bluff and destroyed its military infrastructure in Ukraine in less than 24 hours. The endless repetition of how devastating economic sanctions, including the threat of freezing non-existing assets, will be for Russia is the cover up for this defeat and is presented as the voice of a powerful empire.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth mechanism is implementing intimidation for those who oppose Western imperialism. If your are not for me, than you are for Putin. And as Putin is evil so you are also evil. And evil person should be dealt with.<\/p>\n<h3>The role of social movements<\/h3>\n<p>Before the fall of the Soviet the world had a strong anti-imperialist movement. After the fall social movements went in search for new theories of liberation. Many movements are looking towards theories that emphasize individual liberation, rather than social liberation. It has weakened the anti-imperialist movement.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the time to build new social movements that deal with major economic, social, political and cultural problem. The decline of the Western civilization is full with perils of devastating wars. World War III always looms around the corner with any conflict in the world. The world needs a social movement that is focussed on the issue of peace and a new world civilization based on pluriformity. A movement that says \u201cNO!\u201d to all wars, not just the war in Ukraine. We have a long way to go before this movement matures, but as a Chinese philosopher once said: a journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.<\/p>\n<p><u>Note<\/u><\/p>\n<p>This analysis is based on chapter 8 of my forthcoming book: Decolonizing The Mind. Imagining a new world civilization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/din.today\/news\/a-decolonial-view-of-the-war-in-ukraine\/?fbclid=IwAR2p5r1G8ZFGAzLQRR5Mbxytjk3T2Kc_WghzKV1LISHee38Dsq9vzdCRskg\">SOURCE\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandew Hira, La Haye 25-2-2022 Introduction L&rsquo;invasion russe de l&rsquo;Ukraine est une nouvelle mondiale. L&rsquo;analyse des m\u00e9dias occidentalis\u00e9s (y compris les m\u00e9dias du Sud qui copient les informations des m\u00e9dias occidentaux) est tr\u00e8s largement biais\u00e9e. Cette analyse fournit un regard d\u00e9colonial sur l&rsquo;actualit\u00e9. 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