Ukraine-Russia War Worst to Happen to White People since World War II
Ukraine Is
Not the Worst Act of War since WWII, its Not Even the Worst War Going on Right
Now It’s Just the Worst to Happen to White People
By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
4 March 2022
In the present war of Russia on Ukraine, there is an outpouring of concern for the “heroic” people of Ukraine. How genuine is this concern? The world has been indifferent to bigger wars that are based on outright lies which continue to cause far greater civilian casualties and go on to this day. The same media turns a blind eye to these. One is tempted to think that this indifference is because of racism especially when they say things like “I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” or “This isn’t Iraq or Afghanistan … This is a relatively civilized, relatively European people”. Racism is ever-present but that may be unintended. They are saying things that are more likely to tug at the emotional strings of their intended audience which is the people of their own country. It is to build public opinion against the aggressor Russia and prepare them for the sacrifices they will be called upon to play when sanctions against Russia begin to hurt them as well.
The people
of Ukraine appear to be merely pawns in the power game for the US and its NATO
partners. Russia is more likely to be genuinely concerned about the people as
what it needs is a friendly neighbour with a friendly people and the war is
because they have been systematically wooed and manipulated by the US and its
NATO partners to take a hostile approach to Russia. This is a subject for
another occasion. The blog reproduced below captures the apparent hypocrisy of
the media in their reporting of the wars going on presently. Editor
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When
War Happens To White People
indi.ca
Feb 25
White
people say Ukraine is the worst war since WWII when it’s not even the worst war
today. It’s not even the worst war in Europe. It’s definitely not the worst war
in recent history.
We are
surrounded by war, but it’s somehow only an atrocity when it happens to white
people. The constant killing of colored people is just furniture. It’s like
factory farming or environment destruction. Our blood, bones, and planet are
just the background for imperial vanity. Our dehumanization is so complete that
colored people don’t even register as human beings.
And yet we
are. In solidarity with the people of Ukraine, I reject this rank hypocrisy. It
is this very dehumanization that makes war such an atrocity.
The White
Empire that holds Ukraine up as some great example is getting them killed as
much as they regularly kill colored people like me. We all get stuck between
this murderous empire and the villain of the week. We’re all victims of the
same hypocrisy.
Worst
War?
I’m not
just burning a straw man on your lawn. Mitt Romney came and burnt this odious
tweet on everybody. He said “Putin’s Ukraine invasion is the first time in 80
years that a great power has moved to conquer a sovereign nation.”
What the
fuck is he talking about? Were Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan not sovereign
nations, conquered and occupied? How many places has White Empire tried to
topple, or left to rot under siege?
The ongoing
wars on Syria, Yemen and sieges of Afghanistan are killing people every day.
The war dividing Korea never ended. The punishment of Iran never stopped. The
Israeli occupation of Palestine is killing people every day. Because this
happens to people of color, however, white people can’t see it. It just blends
into the background.
To Mitt
Romney, colored nations have no sovereignty at all. We don’t even exist. This
is the ultimate dehumanization, this is what keeps us under forever war. To the
settler-colony of America, we’re still just an endless frontier of savages.
Beasts of no nation. We don’t even register as things to conquer, as lives to
take. War can only happen to white people, not animals.
In truth,
what happened to Ukraine is not even the worst war going on right now, if you
can admit coloured people their humanity. On the same day the Ukraine was
attacked, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen were also bombed, the latter 37 times. On
the same day, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Cuban, and North Korea
remained under siege. It has been another day of constant war, but it’s like
those people don’t even exist. White people really don’t see colour.
It’s not
just Romney, ostensibly in opposition. Here’s what an unnamed defence official
told CNN:
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The world has not seen a “move like this, nation state-to-nation state,
since World War II,” a senior US defence official told reporters Thursday about
Russia’s attack on Ukraine — “certainly nothing on this size and scope and
scale.”
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But we have
seen this! I have personally seen the nation states of Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Libya toppled and Syria and Yemen reduced to rubble. Those were nations! Those
are people! In terms of size, scope, and scale, just fucking look:
The Costs Of War Project, because nobody else
is even counting
Here’s your
comparison to World War II. At least 38 million people have been displaced in
White Empire’s Terror Wars, the worst human catastrophe since World War II. And
it’s ongoing. That’s real. Those are real people, and under the ground are
millions dead. This is war. This is real war. It is endless because these human
beings remain so thoroughly dehumanized.
Hence you
can get President Joe Biden saying, without any sense of irony,
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“Who in the Lord’s name does Putin think gives him the right to declare
new so-called countries on territory that belonged to his neighbors? This is a
flagrant violation of international law and demands a firm response from the
international community,” Biden said.
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What is he
talking about? How is this even coherent unless coloured nations do not exist?
Biden supported destroying Afghanistan, Iraq, and whoever else came up,
countries which aren’t even America’s neighbours. America’s backyard is
everywhere, and it’s full of bodies. America’s idea of a ‘rules-based order’ is
attacking other countries all the time.
As the
better President Jimmy Carter said,
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President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history,
America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace, making it, as he wrote, “the most
warlike nation in the history of the world.” (Rolling Stone)
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The
dehumanization is so complete that it’s fucking invisible. That’s how not human
colored people are. Hence the western(ized) journalist (?) Julia Ioffe can say
that America is somehow allergic to war. She said:
Julia Ioffe
What does
this mean? How is this tweet still up? This isn’t some isolated idiocy, this is
reality. This is how white people really see.
They think
that because drones aren’t human, the people they kill are somehow not human
either.
Out of
sight, out of your fucking mind. They somehow think that decades long invasions
and occupations are not occupations because they’re well-meaning. They’re doing
us a favor, really. The white man’s burden, so please don’t burden us with even
counting your dead.
White
people really can’t see themselves as the monsters they are, and they certainly
can’t see us as human beings. We are beneath even war. War is not even declared
on us. War is for human beings, and we’re so throughly dehumanized that we’re
like cattle, or plants. Israel even describes its regular murder of
Palestinians as ‘mowing the grass’.
In order to
kill people you have to dehumanize them first, and we in the global majority
have been so thoroughly dehumanized that we don’t even register as victims of
war. White people only perk up when it happens to white people. That’s when
it’s an atrocity.
Worst in
Europe?
The New
York Times, reducing humanity to European states (via)
The
qualification to the Ukraine outrage is that this is somehow the worst war ‘in
Europe’ but what does that mean? Yugoslavia is in Europe and they got was
pretty wrecked in the 90s. That was NATO’s first real taste of blood.
What ‘in
Europe’ really means is ‘for white people’. That’s really what ‘Europe’ means
as well.
Europe is
not a real continent, as Hitler’s tanks could tell you. It’s just a white
supremacist line drawn randomly across Asia. Hitler was completely flummoxed by
bodies of water but he rampaged across Eurasia just fine.
Most WWII
casualties were actually in Asia, not ‘Europe’ at all. By a long shot. By the
tens of millions.
There is no
point in reducing a literal World War to just the European theatre, unless
you’re being racist, which people are. ‘Worst in Europe’ is just a shorthand
for ‘worst for white people’. It’s just the worst war within the confines of
white supremacy. This is an act of warlike dehumanization in itself.
This is not
for the Ukrainian people’s benefit. Just ask the citizens of the former
Yugoslavia, who have now been completely disappeared and forgot.
Whitewashing
War
The message
we in the global majority get loud and clear from your hand wringing is that
war is only war when it happens to white people. As Emran Feroz said, “Most
Ukraine coverage is dominated by a lot of Eurocentrism. Go and talk about a
“new era”, “new timeline” etc. with Afghans, Chechens, Syrians or Iraqis.”
Plenty of
coloured blood was spilled during World War II, plenty continued to be spilled
after, and your ‘Cold’ War was pretty hot for everybody else. But that’s
somehow not history. You’ve whitewashed history, and today we can see you
whitewashing reality. But this time it won’t wash.
As Shailja
Patel said:
Solidarity with the people of Ukraine against Russia’s bombs. Rejection
of the agendas and messaging of the countries currently bombing Yemen, Syria,
Gaza and Somalia, and starving Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and Afghanistan. Both are possible
at the same time.
As Alan
MacLeod said:
The outrage you’re feeling now is the outrage you should feel when the
United States bombs or occupies a country, which is every day.
As Jeff
Sharlet said:
We can simultaneously recognize the horror of Putin’s invasion and
recall the terrible wars in Serbia, Bosnia, and Kosovo. This isn’t the “first
war in Europe since WW II.” Nor is it (yet) the worst war in recent decades; US
invasion of Iraq far worse; 2nd Congo War worse still.
This stuff
is all basic geography, history and reality, but white supremacy warps people’s
minds so much that they can’t see. They can’t see coloured dead, they can’t see
coloured occupation, and they can’t see the endless state of war that has
continued since World War II.
In truth,
WWII never ended, it just became World War Too. The world remained at war,
white people just stopped giving a fuck and called it ‘cold’. But hey, guess
what. We all bleed the same warm blood. We all prefer to keep it inside our
bodies.
Hence this
is in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, they’re not somehow alone in being
victims of war. War is the very act of dehumanization, and this is what we must
resist, whether it happens in Ukraine or Yemen, crossing the Mediterranean or
the river Dnieper, wherever the crushing of human life and very existence may
be.
We have to
realize, war isn’t something that just happens to white people. War happens to
people. In solidarity with the people of Ukraine and the people in pain
everywhere, we have got to recognize our shared humanity.
Source: When
War Happens To White People
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