At the outbreak of World War One, Physicist Albert Einstein together with his scientific colleagues, professors G F Nicolai (Pavlovian physiologist), Wilhelm Foerster (astronomer and metrologist) and Otto Buek (historian of science) published a Wake-up Call to Europeans.
They warned that Europeans must stop their natural reflex for war and THINK clearly and morally.
They warned of the Darwinistic disaster that war brings and the stupidity of war in a world of complex technologies and scientific innovation.
They called for a supranational solution to the approaching apocalypse.
They were rebuffed.
Two world wars and massive death and destruction followed.
Just two years before this same time Robert Schuman (French parentage and born in Luxembourg) co-led the German delegation to an international campaign for a scientific experiment to change the face of Europe. A conference including Nobel peace prize winners was held at Leuven, Belgium. It would combine scientific progress, technological innovation and turn national strategic goals from war to peace. From Destruction to Prosperity for all. From international anarchy of the vicious egocentric power politics of material supremacy to the moral-based European rule of law.
It would, he said later in 1949, bring eternal peace between countries of Western Europe through a supranational Community. It was a great scientific experiment he told the Council of Europe.
The Great Experiment succeeded.
But today
Europe has forgotten its history,
It has lost its moral Compass,
It has lost its geopolitical vision of Peace.
It is heading for endless war on our Continent, death and destruction and economic and energy failure for those in Western Europe.
The Europe of the expanded European Community has peace. Beyond its borders wars are fomented. Did the Ukraine war arise by negligence, ignorance or malign policy? When Europe’s two most corrupt powers go to war we should expect smoke and deception.
Europe's main duty is to end war. It is based on moral and ethical principles that first created real and lasting peace in Western Europe.
The duty of European leadership is to ensure the peace and security of its citizens. Why have they failed, leaving Europeans defenceless, impoverished and in the cold?
The duty of its citizens is to live in peace with Europeans of other countries and nationalities.
The European Community (not the present EU) won the Nobel Peace Prize because it had created the framework of Peace. That peace is undeniable and without precedent in all of European history.
And today's leadership? What European leaders are conducting now is a policy to encourage endless war. Why?
In 1951 Six founder States (France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux) ended two thousand years of continuous warfare on the Continent. Three communities (Coal and Steel, Euratom and the Common Market) provided the basis for an Energy Community but the idea was rebuffed by Charles de Gaulle of France.
De Gaulle was forced to resign the French presidency in 1969. Other nations joined.
But Russia, after it had rid itself of Soviet Communism, was rebuffed from joining.
What happened? In 1990 Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers proposed a European Energy Community, based on the founding Coal and Steel Community. All peoples, from Ukraine to the Russian Far East, would benefit from a huge stable, democratic market. Energy would be shared as coal had been earlier.
A huge boost to growth would be accomplished by five common democratic institutions. Working properly, they would ensure a moral order. The self-proclaimed elite blocked elections of the Treaty of Paris; they preferred a closed door system of decision-making, thus freezing the workings of the institutions.
Bureaucrats and myopic, selfish politicians killed the Energy Community. They also killed hope.
Russia and its nascent democratic pluralism was rebuffed. It was thrown into the cold.
All of a sudden the consequences have become dire.
Is it in Europe's strategic interest that Russia forms political and military bonds with Communist China, Shiite Iran and North Korea? All nuclear armed. All driven with specific anti-democratic ideologies and a common intent to destroy the West.
That is the outcome of the lost decades since the turn of the century. The global disaster of undetermined dimensions that we face must be reversed.
Now is the time to relight that vision for peace, and rekindle hope, across the whole European Continent.
Hard questions should be asked.
Why are leaders not initiating peace talks with both Russia and Ukraine? Instead they use the 'European Peace Facility' to send arms to one side, rendering any role as Honest Broker impossible.
What are the US objectives in Ukraine? What are the motives of the Bidens who have long had intimate and lucrative relations with China and the Ukraine? Why are Europeans being urged to slavishly follow their Russia war without reflection? What are the real motives of the Biden administration — that President Trump accuses of turning the USA into a banana republic, run, as his lawyers say, by armed ‘governmental gangsters’ who raid his home and violate those of his lawyers and colleagues?
Who has gained from the war in Ukraine? Not Western Europe. Not American citizens. Not the Ukrainians. Not even the Russians.
China is the big victor. It sees its opponents crushing themselves without purpose. Most Europeans and Americans are impoverished. Others get very rich.
Big Politics brings Big Corruption. New superpowers, China and Russia, vie for global dominance. Iran still sees itself as the core of global theocratic Islamic power before the Mahdi arrives. It sits astride the commercial chokepoint of the Gulf. What will happen to the Saudi oil wells? Will Europe’s lights go out because of self-inflicted energy shortage of oil, gas, and nuclear? Global corporations also wield power greater than nation-states. Some wish to replace ‘useless humans’ with artificial intelligence. How does that figure faced with envious enemies?
Do Europeans really understand what the stakes are?
These power-brokers can fool most of the people most of the time. Are they fooling you?
Is anyone gaining from the present policy except the Arms Barons and the Merchants of Death? The super-rich will then buy up the property of the poor for a penny.
Europeans need to act now for PEACE. Expose corruption, because it has no part in real peace.
EUROPE must regain its moral compass.
It must regain its destiny as a Community of PEACE.