Collective West Is Over – Peace Activism Can Prevent Complete Self-Destruction
TRANSCEND VIDEOS, 17 Mar 2025
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The “West” is losing its power. The traditional Anglo-European powers are no longer able to assert themselves, neither discursively nor physically, on the world stage as they used to. At the same time, these powers have lost their peace movements. What happened? We explore the decline of the peace movement that went hand in hand with the decline of “the West” itself and chart ideas for future peace actions.
Today, I talk with Dr. Ulrike Guérot in Germany and Dr. Jan Oberg in Sweden. Both are intellectuals who founded peace organizations. Ulrike, most recently, the newly established “European Transcontinental Initiative.” Jan created over 30 years ago the “Transnational Foundation”.
Prof. Jan Oberg, Ph.D. is director of the independent Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF in Sweden and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. CV: https://transnational.live/jan-oberg
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Tags: Anglo America, Anglo Saxons, Europe, Peace, West
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Peace Activism, extremely active since the birth of the first international Peace organization, IPB (International Peace Bureau), 134 years ago, (and now we have 75,000 Peace NGO’s with 42,000 active) cannot Prevent Self-Destruction, complete or partial ! Simply because Peace activists don’t seek an end to conflict. Peace activists think that politicians don’t know how to prevent war and that they should be educated.
Peace activists don’t consider the fact that Governments are the only authority allowed to own slaves (Armed Forces) to train them in the Art of fighting, maiming, torturing, killing, and destroying (buildings, families, societies, Nature and the economy). Governments are the only authority allowed to give orders to the Armed Forces to go to war, to kill and to die.
The same politicians have the duty to ensure that the thousands of workers in the war industry don’t lose their jobs. For this, the machine guns, bullets, grenades, landmines, bombs, rocket launchers, guided and cruise missiles, torpedoes, tanks, bombing helicopters and drones, air-fighters and warships, torture instruments, military uniforms they produce must be sold and used, damaged, destroyed, so that the industry can keep producing.
Politicians are not magicians or miracle producers, which is what Peace Activists seem to think. Politicians cannot promote military trading and training, and military “inactivity” at the same time. An oxymoron.
Neither the War industry not religious corporations can be seen involved in promoting war, so they both use politicians to achieve their financial needs and ambitions.