Like how about if it was happening to you? How would it be? Find your country in the list.
It might help understand what’s going on to see what it would mean if it were happening in your own backyard, to your own people, in your own culture, in your own language.
So here. Here is a list of ‘How it would be if it were happening in ‘this country’ and ‘that country’ Not a very long list. Feel free to add to it.
IF IT WERE HAPPENING IN ‘my country’ IT WOULD BE AS THOUGH:
( We want to divide between NATO and rest of the world. But America must be on its own because it owns NATO, initiated, armed and promoted the war but pretends to be wholly interested in ending it. i.e. It IS NATO and doing it but claims to be the Opposite. )
So all by itself, the USA:
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United States – it would be :
“As though the government in Washington mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Texas and California because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Brooklynese’, must cease using English, and must expunge all English culture.”
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And now representative nations of the Rest of The World
Australia it would be:
“As though the government in Canberra mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years West Australia and South Australia because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘CanberraSpeak’, must cease using English, and must expunge all English culture.”
India it would be:
“As though the government in New Delhi mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Tamil Nadu and Punjab because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Sanskrit’, must cease using Hindi and English, and must expunge all associated culture.”
Brazil
“As though the government in Brasília mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Nheengatu’, must cease using Portuguese, and must expunge all Portuguese culture.”
Mexico
“As though the government in Mexico City mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Jalisco and Nuevo León because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Nahuatl’, must cease using Spanish, and must expunge all Spanish culture.”
Indonesia
“As though the government in Jakarta mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Bali and East Java because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Javanese’, must cease using Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), and must expunge all its associated culture.”
Argentina
“As though the government in Buenos Aires mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Córdoba and Mendoza because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Welsh’, must cease using Spanish, and must expunge all Spanish culture.”
Egypt
“As though the government in Cairo mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Alexandria and Sinai because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Coptic’, must cease using Arabic, and must expunge all Arabic culture.”
South Africa
“As though the government in Pretoria mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Zulu’, must cease using Afrikaans and English, and must expunge all their associated cultures.”
Japan
“As though the government in Tokyo mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Kansai and Hokkaido because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Okinawan’, must cease using Japanese, and must expunge all Japanese culture.”
Vietnam
“As though the government in Hanoi mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Ho Chi Minh City and the Central Highlands because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Tay’, must cease using Vietnamese, and must expunge all Vietnamese culture.”
Colombia
“As though the government in Bogotá mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Antioquia and Valle del Cauca because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Wayuu’, must cease using Spanish, and must expunge all Spanish culture.”
And now the actual prosecutors/promoters or the war: the NATO countries.
How would they like it were it done to them, we must wonder ?
United Kingdom it would be:
“As though the government in London mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Scotland and Northern Ireland because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Welsh’, must cease using English, and must expunge all English culture.”
France
“As though the government in Paris mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Brittany and the Riviera because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Breton’, must cease using French, and must expunge all French culture.”
Germany
“As though the government in Berlin mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Bavaria and Hamburg because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Sorbian’, must cease using German, and must expunge all German culture.”
Italy
“As though the government in Rome mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Sicily and Lombardy because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Sardinian’, must cease using Italian, and must expunge all Italian culture.”
Canada
“As though the government in Ottawa mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Alberta and Quebec because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Inuktitut’, must cease using English and French, and must expunge all Anglo-French culture.”
Turkey
“As though the government in Ankara mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Antalya and Izmir because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Kurdish’, must cease using Turkish, and must expunge all Turkish culture.”
Poland
“As though the government in Warsaw mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Silesia and Pomerania because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Kashubian’, must cease using Polish, and must expunge all Polish culture.”
Spain
“As though the government in Madrid mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Catalonia and Andalusia because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Galician’, must cease using Spanish, and must expunge all Spanish culture.”
Netherlands
“As though the government in The Hague mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years North Brabant and Friesland because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Frisian’, must cease using Dutch, and must expunge all Dutch culture.”
And so on. If your own country is not listed please think about how it would be there and how you would take it.
And now, how IS it in Ukraine, this bastion of freedom, democracy, love and grace ?
What happened/is happening in Ukraine?
This:
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The government in Kiev mounted an armed invasion and shelled for eight years Donetsk and Luhansk because they refused to accept that henceforth the whole nation must use ‘Ukrainian’, must cease using Russian and must expunge all Russian culture.
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