Ukraine and Middle East have become the stage of world hypocrisy. In Ukraine Russia has attacked and Ukraine has the right to defend itself. But the West has transformed this tragedy into a war by prosecutor, fed with billions of taxes removed from citizens. Governments unable to cut a euro of clientele expenditure suddenly find infinite resources to buy weapons and public debt.
In Israel and Palestine the situation is even more paradoxical. For too many decades, the international community hasmped “collective solutions” that have not resolved anything: conferences, peace plans, divisions decided in the buildings. But the rights do not belong to abstract peoples, they belong to individuals. Every Israeli has the right to live safely without threats and missiles of Hamas, and every Palestinian has the right to not be treated as a perennial or cracked hostage without earth. As long as we continue to talk about peoples to oppose, and not of people to free, peace will remain a farce. It is not the Israeli state or the Palestinian authority that had to “sign peace”, but millions of individuals to whom life, freedom and property must be returned. All the rest – from UN proclamations to power negotiations – is bargain paper.
The common thread is armed statism: governments that feed on war to strengthen themselves, leaders who use citizens as cannon meat to maintain power and taxpayers as ATM. It is the usual lie: to talk about peace while ending up without endless conflicts to maintain or enlarge power.
The meeting between Putin and Trump, followed by Trump’s comparison with Zelensky and European “willing” seems to offer a new way out. But if peace remains a compromise between leader and states, it will be yet another illusion. Because the real turning point does not come from those who sit in the leaders, but from a simple and revolutionary principle: peace is not signed between governments, it is built by recognizing the freedom of individuals and reducing the power of states.
Andrea Bernaudo, 20 August 2025
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