Is it enough time to ask the world's leading politicians, why they can not agree?
We know about the good result of cooperation of the Soviet Union, the US, Britain, France, Czechoslovakia and other countries in the fight against Hitler and his allies. Then, these were states, officially based on contradictory principles and the collaboration only began due to the common existential threat from Hitler's world-conquering ambitions. Now we have organized terrorists instead of Nazis and the situation is even more critical because technology and the organization of destruction has reached the status when too many people can easily trigger slaying all of us and all the living things on Earth. Indeed, do we just passively watch how world leaders can not agree? Indeed, can we only look silly how people in Syria suffer because of it and solve, what about those millions of people in this situation desperately fleeing into the unknown?
Individuals
make decisions by their feelings and it is generally accepted that
they can negotiate with a potential enemy far better than politicians
who decide according to general aspects and who are constrained by
the need to maintain the support of many people in their charge.
Therefore, the politicians hold old clichés used among the large
number of people, which is very inertial in principle. That is very
dangerous in a situation such as that after WW1 and now, when people
in a significant portion of the world feel deceived/defeated.
Russians remember strongly their cooperation with the West in
defeating their common mortal enemy in the WW2 and then Reagan
embracing with Gorbachev during perestroika attempt to introduce
a more open society, which could not prevent the collapse of the
Soviet empire. Had the democratization effort then really improved
their living standards so that it could compensate for their feeling
that they had lost their influence on the development of a malignant
world? And that they have got otherwise the same enemy trying again
to get to neck by violating the military balance? And that the enemy,
with an excuse for their defensive response, worses their living by
sanctions and so prepares the final assault? There is the cliché
clear: We with Germany in NATO are suspected of just such a
treacherous intent with which German Nazis attacked; that suspecting
is confirmed by Ukraine's announcement that it fails to comply with
an agreement on neutrality with Russia and vice-versa will seek links
with NATO. Therefore, both sides should strive to improve mutual
trust, the more that we are at war against a common enemy. In the
West we tend to perceive Russians' sense that they are at risk and
their supporting demonstration of Russian force
only
as symptoms of dictatorship and hold the cliché: the Russia is a
dictatorship, and dictatorship must be vanquished without worry what
it costs; still, we are stronger and every concession to Russia is
only 'appeasement'. But:
Is the absolute black
and white image of their system against our quite good and the
superiority of our forces and therefore the probability of our
victory so clear? And do we really want to make that last experiment?
Leading US politicians say clearly: the nuclear war with Russia is
not possible, because that would be the end of life on Earth.
The result is
summarized in red words
above, up to now "only"
for the Syria, Ukraine and Afghanistan.
What
if the world tried to build
on the cooperation between people in the Russian-American teams of
astronauts and
to let the
society control system to be tested by competition while gradually
improving mostly the system that suits worse the
needs and feelings of the population?
This
means to build further joint teams, if possible for the most serious
challenges: Ending the war in Syria and surroundings and settling
situation in Ukraine. And to gather the ideas for solution to which
those politicians still are not able to grow and lead the world to
ruin.
Politics
is the art of what is possible. Let's check if some people are
willing to get a bit involved and organize a debate and vote on a
query that needs to be asked those politicians and on a challenge to
world media to ask the questions and to publicly debate the answers.
We call those people for establishing the 'Movement
for question on global cooperation'
in countries of the UN and to future cooperation of them; we propose
a theme
for World Leaders in
that text. But maybe now it is not time enough to build an effective
movement; Chancellor Merkel propaganda requiring crackdown on
information from Russia reminds us strikingly of the situation before
World War II. Therefore high-level leaders of the main forces are
needed who, following the example of President Wilson, find
officially the viewpoint of the other one, now concerning
cooperation, and begin to actively authenticate the cooperation. I
hope our idea of creating
the joint forces to be inspiration.
Tomáš
Pečený on
behalf of authors of a possible
scenario for development of the world
(Please
for the proposals
for
the
theme
(the
presented solution)
and of the query, and for drafts of a charter of the emerging
Movement. I am ready to publish all of it according to the rules
(now
Czech only) at a list
of correspondence; you can ask for anonymization, especially in
the case of a communication on a petition requesting origin of this
Movement, if
-a/
you support the efforts from abroad or if you are a citizen of the
Czech Republic and you seriously think about its signing;
-b/
you are a citizen of the Czech Republic and you have decided to sign
the petition; 1000 signs are necessary in the Czech Republic.
I
shall deem these communications as private under the rules. I will
continuously publish the numbers of both those categories for each
country. (The further tentative detail relates to the Czechs only.) I
will let posted all the dated versions of this article and of the
first approach to the challenge; those challenges with the
designation 'theme for World Leaders'.