DISARM EUROPE! Europe should do what it was created for: peace

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a crime. Defending Ukraine is right.
Defending legality and international law is a duty of States. Always and everywhere. Without using double standards. In Ukraine as in Gaza.
But continuing the war is the most wrong and inconclusive way to do it.
War and war propaganda are prohibited by international human rights law.

Europe should have prevented it. And it didn't. It wanted to win it. And it failed. And now it would like to drag us into a devastating arms race that will fatally end up destroying what remains of Europe.

What to do now?

We cannot let the carnage continue.
We cannot let Europe plunge into a state of permanent war.
We cannot afford a crazy and inconclusive arms race that will fuel desperation, nationalism, and authoritarianism.
We cannot afford the militarization of our lives, economy, and countries.
We cannot let them take away our health, freedom, and democracy as well.

Let’s be realistic!
Trump has reopened negotiations with Putin. We don’t like -at all- the way he's doing it. But we must stop the carnage and military conquests and save what remains of Ukraine.

This is the time to do what hasn't been done yet: "work for peace". Even if many don’t even know what that means.
In the name of respecting the dignity of every person and human life, legality and international law; in the best interest of children, for the good of humanity, Europe should return to being an "instrument of peace"! For us, for all oppressed peoples, and for the entire world.

The path of peace -we repeat- is the path of legality, international law, and multilateralism. Let's give strength back to the United Nations. Let's organize a new Helsinki Conference that, like 50 years ago, will give a new start to building a new common security system in Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, based on disarmament, human rights, the right to self-determination of peoples, and minority rights. Let's build Francesco's Economy, the economy of peace and fraternity.

It won't be enough to say "Europe, Europe" to avoid hell. Europe should rediscover its raison d'être and do what it was created for: peace. The flag of Europe and the flag of peace walk together.

Read what Simone Veil and Alcide De Gasperi said.

"All of its member states now face three great challenges: the challenge of peace, the challenge of freedom, and the challenge of prosperity, and it seems clear that these can only be addressed in the European dimension. Let's start with the challenge of peace. The period of peace we have enjoyed in Europe has been an incredible fortune, but none of us should underestimate its fragility. Our Assembly has a fundamental responsibility to maintain peace, which is probably the most important resource of all Europe. The tension prevailing in today's world makes this responsibility even more serious, and the legitimacy conferred on this Assembly by universal suffrage election, we hope, will help us to take charge of it, and to spread our peace to the outside world." (From the speech by Simone Veil, President of the first European Parliament elected by universal and direct suffrage, July 17, 1979)

"Someone has said that the European federation is a myth. It's true, it's a myth in the Sorelian sense. And if you want there to be a myth, tell me what myth we should give to our youth regarding relations between State and State, the future of our Europe, the future of the world, security, peace, if not this effort towards union? Do you want the myth of dictatorship, the myth of force, the myth of one's own flag, even if accompanied by heroism? But then we would create again that conflict which fatally leads to war. I tell you that this myth is a myth of peace; this is peace, this is the path we must follow." (From the speech by Alcide De Gasperi to the Senate of the Republic, November 15, 1950)