Friday, September 5, 2014

PEACE vs peace



‘Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding’
-Albert Einstein

I, for one, do update everyday to myself such issues around this globe especially relating to ‘PEACE’; the key word all humanity needs for 21st century. Here is a recent peaceful(?) agreement caught my interest several days ago. Let me summarize it in brief.

                                               source: NEWS is

Since the annexation of Crimea Peninsula in March this year, Russia’s military influence would not seem to halt easily over the Eastern European country, Ukraine. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is in the state of denying the suspicions of taking direct action in the Eastern Ukraine crisis; Ukraine facing military conflict with those separatists in the Donbass [Donetsk and Luhansk regions]. However, the U.S., NATO and Ukraine have said more than 1,000 Russian troops are directly involved in the fight between Ukraine government and Russian-backed separatist forces.
On September 3, the office of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko started the morning with a hopeful phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin that there would be an agreed permanent cease-fire in the eastern regions. But soon after the Russians swiftly pointed out that they had never reached such an agreement due to “Russia is not party to Ukraine conflict.” And again, in a revised statement, Poroshenko removed the word ‘permanent’ through the Kiev Post and the phrase, ‘mutual vision of steps that will promote peace’, added the press statement. However, Andrei Purgin, the self-proclaimed prime minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the rebel leader (the separatists above), rejected news of a cease-fire, saying “This was completely unexpected. This decision was made without us.”
While all those leaders has been in such talks and any summits for ‘peace’, ironically however, Moscow simultaneously addressed plans for huge military exercises - strategic rocket forces for its long-range nuclear weapons, maneuvers of 4,000 troops and extensive use of air power - this month and the U.S. and other NATO countries kept discussing more sanctions on Russia.
Is it right act for those keep talking about PEACE?
To me, they are just so much of ridicules. To my picture, they seem shaking their right hands in the name of peace and hiding their lefts at the back with any knives or guns at each other. It is quite understandable why they are doing that way, considering the fundamental goal of any diplomatic and international relationship between the countries; for bringing the greater good to their citizens and countries. Then, so called ‘peace’ for them should be defined as a conditional one. Their ‘peace’ would be like this, ‘We can love you, hug you and get along well with you unless you do not argue with us under any circumstances, and otherwise, we can stab you, shoot you and walk right away from you.’
We, all human beings in this globe, have been striving for excellence and working out way to achieve it throughout histories. To our disappointment, it seems that more and harder we work for farther and farther we are from the core. Maybe isn’t it because the way we do has been wrong? Maybe isn’t it high time to re-define the true meaning of PEACE?
Then, how?
I do not know but one thing for sure is that we need a genuine understanding of it and we need someone to tell and teach us that. And that someone is not definitely from those whose definitions already have been heard. Ah~ PEACE.

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