Russia activates pocket pacifists in Europe
For Russia, an important task now is to freeze the war in Ukraine as soon as possible in order to keep the captured territories under its control and accumulate resources for the next expansion.
For these purposes, she chose a scenario that includes spreading the idea of peace negotiations among Ukraine’s international partners, by relaying these narratives in the mass media, through some “experts”, “activists” and holding “pacifist” events.
It is worth noting that Russia is not the first to use appeals to the “world” to achieve its revanchist and expansionist goals, and is also preparing for war. And since the times of the USSR, a pool of bought and loyal pacifist organizations has been formed in Western countries.
Now, it is vitally important for Russia to put Ukraine on the negotiating table, of course, on its own terms, to freeze the war, and that is why it is using the large-scale pacifist resource in Europe, bought up long ago for these purposes. The apogee of this activity should be the “International Summit for Peace in Ukraine”, which will be held in Vienna, the capital of Austria, from June 10 to 11.
The purpose of this summit is to adopt an urgent global appeal called the “Vienna Declaration of Peace”, which will contain a call to the world’s political leaders to take immediate measures to support a ceasefire and peace negotiations to resolve the “situation” in Ukraine. This event will be held by the oldest organization “International Peace Bureau”. At first glance, it seems that this is a respected pacifist structure, created in the very distant year 1891 and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1910 for its work. And one of the leaders of this organization, Sean McBride, was also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
It would seem that there is simply no place to put a quality mark, but it is not.
For example, Sean McBride was a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and actively cooperated with Soviet intelligence, passing information about the British army to the USSR. In 1975, this figure was awarded the Lenin International Peace Prize.
In the 1980s, US intelligence included the International Peace Bureau among organizations that worked for the USSR.
To date, it is known about some participants and organizations invited to the event. In particular, the first word will be given to a certain Noam Chomsky and the president of Brazil, Luis Lula Da Silva.
Naom Chomsky is known for justifying the occupation of Crimea in 2014, calling it “historically Russian” and calling for the “federalization” of Ukraine! And recently, he criticizes the US support for Ukraine and threatens the Americans with the Third World and nuclear war if this support continues.
Actually, Russia is starting to swing the flywheel of pacifism, attracting pocket pacifists from all over the world. I will make several publications about the organizations and participants of this event, but believe me, judging by the first actors, the group gathered there.
Such measures, by the way, are also good because they gather all the Russian agents in one place at once, and it is much easier to compile lists of members of this network. A note to our European partners, so to speak.
Military and political columnist Oleksandr Kovalenko