To the editor:
Underlying Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is fear. The fear of losing control and power and the greed and scarcity of fear that necessitates control over territory and countries, peoples, resources. This war, like all wars, is about fear and fear creating more of the same. It seems obvious to me that fear’s greed, power, and control apply not only to Russia but also to the United States, and its allies.
The U.S. government in its reaction, and self-righteous vilification of Putin is helping spread the alarms of fear in multiple countries to further its power, alliances and arms buildups, while furnishing massive funds and weaponry for death and destruction in what can only be the folly and futility of war — and its prolongation.
If the war in Ukraine and the sanctioning of Russia continue, it seems likely we will see immense pain and suffering inflicted on a global scale.
One must sympathize with the plight of the Ukrainian people, yet in choosing sides many have familiarly found a “villain” and someone to call “evil.” This country’s President and our government seem to have the support or acquiescence of the public. And we are collectively vibrationally participatory to this war whether we are for its support or against it.
Ukrainian cities are destroyed, fields mined, people killed and injured, traumatized, families separated… Russians, too, are killed, injured, traumatized. Will Ukraine and its people be saved by our government flooding it with more and more powerful weapons to keep the destruction going, and do we believe this is a virtuous act?
With the one difference that nations are armed with nuclear weapons, this is the old being played out—the very, very old—whether it be Putin revering Prince Potemkin and Catherine the Great and his vision of imperial glory or Joe Biden revisiting the power dynamics of the Cold War.
In the denial of our unity, the inherited belief in our separation from our brothers and sisters and that we are one species among other species, we have fearfully and willingly ceded our authority to those we consider mighty leaders, to fighters and weapons, and to creating fortified walls and borders. It is what we have known for a long, long time. It cannot continue as it is our destruction and the earth’s and its “time” has passed.
War is not inevitable, and “peace” is not an interlude between wars. But we must, we must believe peace is possible. To rising above fear and knowing who and what we are in truth; in agreeing to peace, aligning to peace, and claiming peace. Peace in our hearts, in our consciousness, in the vibration of peace. To be at peace in peace.
Please see https://theberkshireedge.com/a-call-to-peace/
Gina James
Great Barrington
