Hasbury Community Church featured social justice and sharing on Sunday 2 March. BRILLIANT LEADERSHIP - now, do thou likewise!
Dear Alex
Sharing friendship with Russia and Ukraine, NOT military equipment
I am not at all happy at my/our country being behind the times when it comes to more civilised values and doing good around the world rather than doing and supporting warfare, control, coercion and domination.
Last week, overseas humanitarian aid was slashed, again, this time to 0.3% to boost spending on warfare to 2.5% from 2027 and 3% after the next General Election. It should be the other way round!
I am delighted that it has taken Donald Trump to whip the West, that the Ramblers call the Global White Minority, into trying to end the killings in our proxy war with Russia.
It reminds me of our tragic and warmongering ways throughout the last century:
It started with the South African War, World War in two halves, war in much of SE Asia with the USA doing the bulk of the heavy lifting with not a murmur of protest from the UK at the decades of millions slaughtered in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos - and other countries. We expanded our mighty military alliance to counter the USSR. Our nice NATO, far from disbanding when the Warsaw Pact did, simply took over some of their former members! To such an extent that, of course, Russia was not best pleased. We added insult to injury with our nukes and military exercises in former Warsaw Pact countries!
Nothing quite like provocation to stir things up so nicely!
Putin changed his mind over becoming part of the American-led West Global Minority. His offer to help after 9/11 was not taken up. Our triumphalism at Russia ending the Cold War, not us was entirely misplaced, very wrong and simply fueled Russian nationalism. The foolish West failed to keep Putin on board, we lost his friendship, failed to concede a single request that might well have improved relations.
Now, NATO is bigger and more powerful than ever.
Precious resources of oil, gas and other mineral wealth is less - all in the name of economic/military growth. How stupid!
No empathy from the Wicked Witch of the West. Only ultra-right wing nationalist Benjamin Netanyahu who is the epitomy of being devoid of empathy. Our great friend and ally believes in nothing but coercion, force, whipping, warfare and the extermination of Hamas and all the other named enemies that Israel has also failed to wipe off the face of the earth in 77 years of massacres, horrors and intimidation to drive the Palestinians from their land. Watch 'The Birth of Israel', the 2008 film by Jeremy Bowen - on iPlayer.
The British Mandate/Control over Palestine from 1917 to 1948 was a catastrophe. We showed partiality to the Jews/Zionists and failed to honour our pledges to the Arabs - even to our very own Lawrence of Arabia who was crucial in our Mightiest Empire vanquishing the Ottoman Empire and giving us yet more land to rule over!
The biggest and strongest Empire the world has ever seen was driven out of Palestine by three Jewish/Zionist terrorist gangs, the Stern Gang, Irgun and Haganah. Violence and aggression was rewarded with territory conquered being kept - war after war, decade after decade. Still, to this day, by our Big Bibi pal.
No social justice, no Climate justice, no peace. Instead, we know migration to Europe and America to finally know peace and some semblance of comfort and civilisation for the poor people who have been the suffering subjects of our control, domination and violence. For many centuries, too!
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