Lack of Spirituality and World Politics

The Ukraine war has consequences of which the politicians of our world are not really aware. Ukraine is badly destroyed. Due to the increased prices of raw materials (oil, gas), the poorer countries of our planet are hardly or not at all able to supply themselves with fossil fuels. As a result, the famine that exists in poor countries has increased considerably. The fact that Russia and Ukraine are among the main suppliers of wheat, maize and other agricultural products makes the situation even worse. Immense sums of money go into equipping Ukraine with weapons, ammunition and other material goods. In addition, huge costs are incurred in housing and caring for the 14-15 million Ukrainian refugees. This is part of the consequences that the war has caused so far. If it continues decisively longer, the total costs will be several times higher than the costs so far. Russia has announced for months without words (through the 100,000-man army across the Ukrainian border, what would happen if certain Russian demands were not met (Ukraine not a member of NATO, no NATO troops along the Russian border). In the West, this has been more or less ignored. For weeks now, Russian politicians have been warning that the war would escalate to nuclear if Ukraine were to be upgraded with modern Western war equipment. Apart from warnings to Russia that such a thing would have serious consequences, there has been no change in Western strategy. The West also seems to want to arm Ukraine with heavy offensive weapons. Russia has its back to the wall. More severe consequences than before (sanctions, Russia's exclusion from international payment systems, freezing of foreign Russian assets and others) are hardly possible any-more. Therefore, it will make no difference to the Russian government to destroy the most important Ukrainian cities by nuclear means. The prestige and power thinking of President Putin and his government will not allow them to lose this war. They would lose face. Therefore, the nuclear option is the logical continuation of a Ukrainian build-up of heavy offensive weapons. If Western politicians were spiritual, they would have approached Russia and met its conditions. Ukraine, like Finland and Sweden, would be a militarily neutral country and a member of the European Union at some point in the future. NATO would have withdrawn its troops along the Russian border; then there would have been no war with brutal consequences for the whole planet. A spiritually evolved person sees war as the absolute last option of political action. For such a person, all living beings are of equal importance. His love embraces his worst enemies to the same extent as his best friends. That is why he is a vegetarian and takes care that the other fellow inhabitants of his planet do not suffer because of his way of life. Shrii Shrii Anandamurti's lectures in the book "Neo-Humanism, the Liberation of the Intellect" are of enormous importance for overcoming too narrowly defined social ideas. Some famous personalities of the past were highly spiritual but avoided letting their fellow human beings know it. Albert Einstein ordered that part of his writings not be published until 20 years after his death ("Man is a part of the whole we call the universe, a part limited in space and time. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as separate from everything else - a kind of optical illusion of consciousness. This illusion is a kind of prison for us, confining us to our own preferences and to affection for a few close to us. Our aim must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening the horizon of our compassion until it embraces all living beings and all nature in all its beauty." Albert Einstein ,1879 - 1955). The German writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) revealed in the last years of his life that his most important works were written with the help of writers from the beyond. Max Seiling: Goethe als Esoteriker, Silberschnur-Verlag. The author of the famous "Sherlock Holmes" novels, Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was intensively involved with the afterlife, spiritual mediums and spirituality. State of US democracy: the US democracy is one of the worst in the western world. The dependence on one person (presidential democracy is dangerous. Donald Trump's presidency can be cited as an example. Parliamentary democracy is much better. The senators from small states like Vermont have the same power as the senators from California or Texas. When Donald Trump was elected president, he received 3 million fewer votes than his opponent Hillary Clinton (a good electoral system?). The US is a 2 party dictatorship. The electoral laws are such that it is impossible for other parties to gain seats in Congress. A fair electoral system should accurately reflect the will of the voters. If a party receives sufficient voter support nationwide, it should enter the national parliament with 4 or 5 per cent of the vote. The so-called free press of the West: much of it is privately owned. It is naïve to believe that the owners of these media do not influence the content of publications. Hardly anyone is aware of the fact that the US military would be much smaller without the dollar as the de facto world currency. The US economy is decisively weaker compared to the economic power of the European Union. Looking at the state of the armament, the opposite seems to be the case. Compared to the US fleet and air force, what Western Europe can muster is mediocre. "Let me control a country's currency and I'll control its politics." One should avoid at all costs that because of one country half the planet or in extreme cases (nuclear escalation) the whole planet suffers. Spiritual politics: in Afghanistan the female half of the population now lives enslaved in a kind of hell (burqa among other things). The West should have continued to be militarily present in 2 or 3 provinces, as a home for all democratic and human rights oriented people. Probably even the Taliban would have accepted such a solution.

TO THE UKRAINIAN MARGIIS: The war and its possible consequences. With much Western (NATO) support the Ukraine is at war with a nuclear superpower. As long as Russia is of the opinion that it can wage its war based on conventional weapons the situation will continue the way it is. The moment Putin and his government think that they will loose the war or don’t achieve their goal in time we will see the situation escalating into a nuclear war. Leading Russian politicians have already warned the West that if the intense support of the Ukraine continues nuclear weapons will be used in order to change course of the war. They did not say this if they had no intention to do it. As a first step and a warning they will throw a nuclear bomb on the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, and perhaps on a second city (Lviv, Odessa). Have a look what happened to the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. In the present situation this is an acute danger. It may happen at any time. Kiev and the other big Ukrainian cities in the West are at the moment the most unsafe places on our planet. Consider to move to the countryside or to the West! One can be sure that there are already Russian submarines near the US coasts and the coasts of the main European countries. Russia has enough nuclear warheads to destroy our planet several times. Only when the West makes concessions the Russian nuclear threat will vanish. With best wishes, in HIM, Yogendra