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<p>for a feminist & pacifist response, see WILPF's statement:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wilpf.org/call-to-action-no-more-wars-not-now-not-ever-again/">https://www.wilpf.org/call-to-action-no-more-wars-not-now-not-ever-again/</a>
- it's a call for unity around the message of no more wars.<br>
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<p>however that statement is dated 14th february so before the
actual invasion. more current is this open letter to fridays for
future, written yesterday, calling to unite ecological and
pacifist movements, and appealing to youth:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Letter-WILPF-Ukraine-for-FFF-1.pdf">https://www.wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Letter-WILPF-Ukraine-for-FFF-1.pdf</a>.</p>
<p>so the feminist pacifist response is calls for unity and
non-violence.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25.02.22 11:13, Mathias Fuchs wrote:<br>
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<p>Dear Andreas,</p>
<p>thanks for your thoughtful reply to my quick email. You have a
point there, of course, and I would like to draw back the "not
innocent" notion.</p>
<p>When you ask about the "feminist and pacifist response", I can
only offer a kind of politics that seems to have gone out of
fashion: Neutrality. No weapons pointing towards any
neighbouring borders, no membership in any military
organisation.</p>
<p>The country that you know I come from made a decision in <span
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nation of "immerwährender Neutralität" (eternal neutrality).
Well, this everlasting condition did not last forever, but it
at least the agreement kept the US and the USSR from
stationing troops in Austria.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif;
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!important; float: none;">And once more: my full sympathies
for the Ucranian people who has to suffer now.</span></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25.02.22 10:13, Andreas Broeckmann
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:44d073cb-0077-d195-65e8-dcea9a88fbf1@mikro.in-berlin.de">Dear
Mathias, <br>
<br>
I hesitate because this argument will change nothing, and more
knowledgeable people are making it more elegantly elsewhere, I
hope. But I want to shortly respond to your claim that "NATO is
not completely innocent of what is going on". From my point of
view, this is only true if you regard the Russian claims for its
"security" as legitimate and (I find it hard to imagine that you
would condone this) if you think that the specific current
Russian "response" to the "threat" posed by NATO is therefore in
some way justifiable. (What else, from an ethical point of view,
could the phrase "not innocent" mean?) <br>
<br>
Do you believe that, in order not to become co-responsible for
the current situation (what you call "not innocent"), when the
Baltic countries requested membership in NATO around 2000, the
Western alliance should have said, "no, sorry folks, we cannot
do this out of respect for the security concerns of the Russian
Federation"? <br>
<br>
To the contrary, I would claim that, whatever the circumstances,
the Russian military attack on Ukraine, the threats and
brutality towards deposing the elected Ukrainian government, the
quasi-annexation of the eastern Ukrainian region (and of the
Crimean peninsula, we should not forget) are illegitimate, and
the misery, death and destruction that this war is bringing to
people is unjustifiable and awful. <br>
<br>
However, what concerns me more than such weird "shares of guilt"
discussions is the question what a feminist and pacifist
response or attitude can be in the current situation. <br>
<br>
Best regards, <br>
<br>
-a <br>
<br>
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Am 24.02.22 um 19:11 schrieb Mathias Fuchs: <br>
<blockquote type="cite">Dear friends and neighbours, <br>
<br>
with all shared emotions about the horrible things that happen
in the Ukraine and with particular sympathies for the victims
of Russia's invasion, might I still put up a thought for
discussion? <br>
<br>
I saw elderly ladies in the streets of Berlin today carrying
signs saying "Fuck Putin". This is maybe understandable at a
private level of anger, but it underanalysis what is going on
there. <br>
<br>
Putin is not an individual devil who wants to destroy a
nation. The actions taking are in my view a reaction to
international politics that are a well coordinated maneuvres
of Russian Intelligence, Russian Business and Russian
Military. Not Putin as a person. <br>
<br>
The Capitalist West has expanded zones of monetary interest
and of military influence towards the East since 1991. NATO
countries are at the border of Russia. This is as if Russia
would have installed missiles in Canada, Cuba, and Mexico. Do
you remember the histeria when the Soviet Union set up
missiles in Cuba? <br>
<br>
<br>
I hope that this conflict will be solved without costs of life
and the Ukrainian friends have my full sympathies, but we
should not fool ourselves into "Putin did it". This is a much
more complex issue and the NATO is not completely innocent of
what is going on there. <br>
<br>
Do you remember that NATO is short for "North Atlantic Treaty
Organization"? Is the Ukraine on the North Atlantic? Why does
NATO want to expand to control the entire continent? Could you
consider to be a Russian citizen and be frightened by a
military organisation trying to take over the whole of Europe?
<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks for your thoughts <br>
<br>
Mathias <br>
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