I am truly happy and honoured to have been invited by Lena to her unique channel, World Affairs In Context where she has over 600,000 subscribers. She covers a very wide range of global themes based not the least on her own deep and broad knowledge about economics. I want to thank her warmly for her immense contribution to global public education about the most important issues.
In our conversation, we focus a number of European trends of our time, among them the conversion to a war economy that she herself has also analysed in depth here. We basically focus on diagnosis and some prognosis, but not how to solve problems. That may be our next focus.
As you know, I am very opposed to every doomsday attitude and prediction â as I have repeatedly written and said over decades, latest in âDoomsayers and Possibility Explorers.â
Undoubtedly, the wildly counterproductive policies of NATO and the EU are dangerous and self-destructive, but I do not see them as necessarily having to end in a war with Russia â or China. On the contrary, many things can still be done to avoid that.
It is just that most commentators, media and scholars are:
a) focused on direct military and not on structural and cultural violence and they look at military affairs, not the underlying conflicts â and that
b) most people do only diagnosis and some â dystopian â prognosis instead of concentrating on what is important: How could these problems be solved â and how could peace by created by mainly peaceful means â as the most important Article 1 of the UN Charter states â and all UN members have put their name under.
As a peace and future researcher at TFF, I see that peace-making, not military geopolitics, as my âmission.â
I have always been â and promise to remain â a Possibility Explorer⊠đ
I mean, what else is science for but trying to find solutions?
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