Neutrality
You have a permission to be neutral because neutrality is a virtue, while rivalry is a flaw
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Welcome to the peace initiative for Ukraine in which you can contibute by raising your awareness as well as your consciousness[+] and spirit to the modes[+] of neutrality, decency, respectfulness, wisdom, objectivity, mastery of the intellect, surrender (ego and mind to God/Holy Spirit), and finally peace (inner then outer). To properly grasp everything, we recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative in the order that we designed it, which is listed in the Contents. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we urge you to do it, please.
In this article we talk about neutrality as in a) not taking a side in this conflict, and also b) not joining a military alliance of any side (NATO or CSTO1). Above all, we encourage you to activate and cultivate the virtue of neutrality, which is a prerequisite for achieving peace that is the ultimate goal of this peace initiative for Ukraine.
For those who maintain that neutrality is rather a flaw if they are led to believe that this war is a battle between good and evil, at the end of this article, we offer arguments for siding with one or the other side with the aim of ending the horrific war in Ukraine by means of raising awareness and consciousness rather than by military means.
Neutrality[+] is the choice not to take a side in a conflict of others. Neutrality implies tolerance regardless of how disagreeable, deplorable, or unusual a perspective might be. In conflict moderation2 and mediation3, neutrality is expected to make decisions or facilitate dialogue independent of any bias, emphasizing the process rather than the outcome. Neutral parties are often perceived as more trustworthy, reliable, and safe. Neutrality is synonymous with non-alignment and adopts a position of a middle ground or golden middle way[+] – the middle between two opposing sides, which was advocated in Antique Greek thought (by Plato and Aristotle). Neutrality is NOT synonymous and should not be confused with indifference or disinterest, or allowing the evil, as some NATO information warriors try to sell it while urging neutral countries to side with Ukraine and NATO.
Warning: since the world has not come on board with NATO's and Kyiv's calls to abandon their neutrality, the West is trying to redefine neutrality to suit them, so beware of it and know that here, we do not mean the Western new definition or view of neutrality, which is a (not so) covert version of siding with NATO & Ukraine.
For instance, Switzerland has historically (since 1815, after the defeat of Napoleon) officially always been a neutral state[+] but they certainly do not act as one in this conflict between NATO-Ukraine and Russia. There are many facts proving they abandoned neutrality (adopted sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia, Swiss Presidents showing support for Kyiv by visiting Kyiv in October 2022 and November 2023 but not visiting Moscow at all, providing aid to Kyiv-controlled area of Ukraine but none whatsoever to ethnic Russians in Ukraine, froze the Russian assets, close airspace to Russian airlines, ended preferential visa rules for Russian citizens…) but clear evidence is the fact that when they hosted a peace summit in June 2024, they did not invite Russia to participate in discussions but only to sign the declaration in the end, to agree to anything the West decides (can they be more stupid than that?)! Russians accused[+][+] Switzerland of abandoning their neutrality, which Switzerland denied[+][+] but you be the judge. The point we are making is, this type of so-called neutrality is not what we mean here.
The general public in the West has been manipulated into taking Ukraine’s side based on the false premise that the war in Ukraine started when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, which is big lie or distortion of the facts.
Although the conflict started in 2008 with Ukraine violating its Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and all treaties with Russia by abandoning its neutrality (quasi-applying to join NATO military alliance, whose raison d'être is animosity towards Russia because it challenges Western hegemony), the armed conflict did not start in February 2022 but in April 2014 when Ukraine invaded ethnic Russians in south-eastern Ukraine because they protested against the new revolutionary anti-Russian US-puppet regime that came to power by force ousting a democratically elected government. The new unelected regime consisting largely from neo-Nazis was funded and backed by the US and other NATO countries and immediately started pushing anti-Russian legislations such as banning the free use of Russian language in a country where 14,3 million[+] people declared Russian as their native language – this was and is a violation of human linguistic rights. Like Nazis in Germany who discriminated against the Jews and Soviets, Kyiv regime discriminated against the ethnic Russians instituting a fascist, apartheid regime. Of course, they had the right to protest but the new neo-Nazi regime declared them as terrorists and shelled and terrorized them for 8 long years killing around 14.000 civilians (injuring 54.000, and forcing 2.6 million people to flee their homes) before Putin sent his troops in 2022 to rescue them from terror.
Here is evidence of the fascist Hitler-like speech[»][»] by then-President of Ukraine (2014–2019), neo-Nazi Poroshenko4 , who declared fascist apartheid policies in a notoriously bombastic political speech on 23 October 2014 when he threatened to oppress and discriminate against children and civilians of ethnic Russians in Donbas (worse than Hitler did with the Jews): "We will have a job – they won't. We will have pensions – they won't. We will have the support of people – children and pensioners – but they won't. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, and they will sit in their basements. Because they don't know how to do anything! That's how, that's how we will win this war." He was referring to the Civil War in Donbas 2014-2022[+][+][+] that he conducted with his anti-Russian policies and sending neo-Nazi battalions to Donbas to kill and terrorize ethnic Russian civilians who protested his anti-Russian policies.
With this article, we are inviting everyone outside of Ukraine and Russia to be neutral rather than take a side based on propaganda, as well as Ukrainians to be neutral in terms of not joining NATO military alliance.
There is no need for Ukraine to violate its own Declaration of Independence (in which Ukraine pledged to be neutral) because joining NATO only threatens Ukrainian security (due to NATO’s hostility towards Ukraine’s neighbors and fellow Eastern Slavs - Russia and Belarus), obliges Ukraine to pay 2% of GDP for membership and to use Ukrainian men to fight American wars across the globe.
If everyone involved in this conflict would have cultivated the virtue of neutrality, there would be no war in Ukraine!
As confirmed by all peace negotiators[+][+][+], both the Ukrainian[+][+][»][»][+][+][+] and Russian[+][+] delegations, as well President Putin[+], and WSJ[+], all Russia wanted from Ukraine is to remain neutral, which is to honor its own Declaration of Independence and treaties with Russia, in which Ukraine promised to remain neutral and honor the rights of ethnic minorities[+][+][+]. Ukraine violated all that and more, sided with anti-Russian NATO military alliance since 2008, which escalated in February 2014 with NATO-backed Maidan Revolution that ousted democratically elected centrist government and installed ultra-right US-puppet regime that immediately started legislating anti-Russian policies (like Nazi regime did with anti-Semitic policies).
If Western public were neutral, their warmongering leaders and war profiteers would not have the backing and power to arm and empower Ukraine to fight losing battles, and Ukrainians would not have grown arrogance to think they could defeat Russia with Western support. Also, if both Western and Ukrainian public were neutral, naïve and poor Ukrainians could not have been used as cannon fodder and pawns in NATO's geopolitical chess game in which NATO rulers, supremacists, and globalists seek to weaken and contain Russia (drain its military resources) to preserve and expand Western hegemony, world domination, and white supremacy.
We are neutral because:
neutrality is a virtue – a constructive mode of consciousness1 , as opposed to rivalry, hatred, victim mentality, blame game, insulting, intimidation, arrogance, pessimism, and other low modes of consciousness (flaws)
neutrality is about being open-minded, objective, and fair rather than biased, one-sided, unbalanced, prejudiced, rigid, discriminatory, hypocritical, and such
the war in Ukraine is not a war between good and evil (one should not be neutral in the conflict between good and evil) – Ukraine is certainly not the epitome of good and Russia is not the epitome of evil
neutrality is rooted in Oneness and beyond a dualistic worldview, which is a mindset of all enlightened beings (the exception is a “holy war” backed by spiritual or divine authority to uproot the evil such as genocide, ethnic cleansing, neo-Nazism, white supremacy, racism, nationalism driven by hatred of another nation, corruption, human trafficking, perversion, depravity, and such[+]; no person or nation is evil by definition as in essence, we are all made in the image of God, no exceptions).
neutrality is essential in conflict mediation and peace arbitration to facilitate dialogue independent of any bias
peacemakers need a genuine stance of objectivity and neutrality to be able to appeal to both sides to make peace; they can’t be opposite of neutral – biased, preferential, partisan, or subjective
neutrality is tantamount to The Non-Aligned Movement[+] – a forum of 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc
neutrality is aligned with the universal law of polarity, which regulates the balanced interaction of positive and negative qualities in the world.
An average Ukrainian and NATO state resident has received enough information on Russia, Russians, and Putin[+] to last them a lifetime, so there is no point for us to add any more to that narrative, so forgive us if we don’t sound enough pro-Ukrainian for your taste by pointing out all the Russian wrongdoings as you might want us to do.
We are both pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian as we are pro-all mankind because all of mankind is created by God and in God’s image and likeness (god-like essence/soul). Bearing in mind that not just some but all human beings are children of God or God's creation, we do not distinguish good and evil people but deeds.
In Bible’s Genesis 1:26–27, 31[+]: “Let us make mankind in our image… So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them… God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.”
People in Ukraine and the West don't need us to tell them that all or much from Russia is propaganda since their MSM5 tells them that all the time. Whether we agree with that claim or not is irrelevant but what is relevant is the evidence concerning propaganda, which we will lay out in another segment of this whole peace initiative.
So, if we are to be neutral so as to promote a fair and unbiased peace initiative, amidst all the Western anti-Russian propaganda, we need to balance the scale a bit by pointing out that much from Ukraine and its allies in the West (NATO) is also propaganda, and also much information from Russia can be and is truthful.
Based on undeniable facts and evidence, we try to neutralize some disinformation and offer some corrections to the incorrect public opinions on topics that may influence everyone’s stand on supporting this peace initiative.
As “neutrality” has become a dirty word in the West since the start of Russian SMO6[+] in February 2022 due to Ukrainian and NATO leaders who have been campaigning to condemn and conduct a smear campaign and character assassination on anyone showing a neutral stance, we are forced to justify our own neutral stance, which would otherwise be absurd in any other situation, as neutrality is a virtue, rather than a flaw, – who are we to judge who is good and who is evil in this conflict and who is Ukraine or NATO to tell us they are good and Russians are evil?! Many facts and evidence actually suggest otherwise, which is why we all need to be careful not to be sucked into the same psyop as many Germans did during WWII by the establishment that brainwashed them into antisemitism, similar to what is Western establishment doing since 2014 (and before) by brainwashing us into anti-Russia sentiments with Russophobic (fear and hatred of Putin and Russians in general) contents through their pawns in political, news, and entertainment industries.
Western leaders and their media outlets have created such a hate-driven culture in the West toward Russia that many people do not even come to question the pushed notion that being neutral is wrong. We will reveal all the reasons (not just Crimea, which was only purported as a reason to conceal true reasons) why for over a decade Russia has been a target of the West in due course but in this context of neutrality, we will just bring to the fore the fact that this conflict is not between good and evil (neither between democracy and autocracy nor freedom and oppression), which is why to be neutral as a foreigner is not evil or bad as the Western authorities wants us to believe.
If anyone is evil, then it would be more likely those who condemn the virtue of neutrality, intimidate neutral nations, and egoistically claim they are the good ones and their enemy is evil while coercing neutral people to take their side with all kinds of evil measures (by force, sanctions, smear campaigns, character assassinations, etc.). Russia is doing none of that to any neutral people and nations. It is the Ukraine and the West that do that, so…
It is important to distinguish the context in which is neutrality being condemned by NATO leaders and so make a choice or decision about it. It is one thing when Jesus or priests condemn neutrality in the context of moral conflict and quite another when military leaders and war profiteers do so. If warmongers, fearmongers, or hatemongers force us to abandon neutrality so as to force us to side with them (abandon neutrality but not for the other side) while presenting themselves as do-gooders and the other side as evil-doers, then we should all beware. Rather than let a belligerent side be the arbitrator of good and evil, it is up to each of us to make our own conclusion about which side is good and which is evil, if any, or we can consult renowned highly-conscious priests or independent experts.
In this conflict, high priests from the local religion are on the Russian side, including the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill[+] and the rest of the clergy[+][+][+], who are blessing[»] Russians and their equipment all the time while Ukrainian Orthodox Church priests do not bless but condemn[+] and curse[+] Ukraine's President Zelensky and his regime. This in itself is very telling about who is likely to be good and who is evil. By the way, Catholic Church Pope Francis didn't condemn[+] Russia over its role in the war in Ukraine, despite being pressured by the Western leaders to do so, nor did he condemn Ukraine (Russians never pressured or suggested him do such a thing).
In the West, there is an exceedingly strong hatred-driven campaign against Russia, which is bundled with fear of Russia (Russophobia[+]) and incited far and wide to such an extreme that any trace of neutrality is immediately condemned as siding with “the evil”. All prominent people who cultivate the virtue of neutrality, defend national interests, or say anything positive about Russia or anything negative about Ukraine or NATO are being absurdly stigmatized[»] as “pro-Russian”, Kremlin trolls, Putin agents, Putinist, Russian proxies, Putin apologetics, stooges of Moscow, Kremlin propagandists, Kremlin assets, Putin's servants, Russian spies, Kremlin mouthpieces, Russian shills, traitors and such, which is always meant as an insult and never based on any evidence of payment from or links to Russia but on mere opposition to the establishment's narrative. What does that say about the state of democracy in the West?
In the Western culture, anyone who doesn't hate Putin and Russians is treated as an outcast or even a criminal, which says a lot about the West being hatred-driven. Like in Nazi Germany when everyone was expected to hate and discriminate against the Jews. Discriminating against any nation is neo-Nazism and fascism. In their hateful frame of mind, Ukraine and its Western allies are not willing to find a solution to end this war that is based on objectivity and brokered by any neutral statesmen.
All attempts from neutral states such as Israel[+], Turkey[+][»], China[+], Brazil[+][+], Indonesia[+], African coalition[+][+], and the Vatican[+][+][+] to broker a peace deal have been blatantly rejected by both Kyiv and Washington while Moscow rejected no peace initiative (other than Zelensky's “peace formula”[+], which Russia perceives as nothing but delusional or unrealistic ultimatums to Russia[+][+]). By a decree[+][+][+], Zelensky even banned peace talks with Moscow. Moscow is ready for talks on Ukraine, which would take the situation on the ground (Russian military victories in line with indigenous people's right to self-determination) and Russian security interests (denazification and no NATO in neutral Ukraine) into account[+]. Kyiv and NATO disregard both the reality on the ground and Russian security concerns, which is why they enable Russians to proceed with enforcing their legitimate interests and their right to defend them by military means.
Ukraine's neutrality is Russia's main and legitimate demand[+], therefore there can be no peace until NATO and Kyiv stop declaring how Ukraine's place is in NATO. For peace and stability in Europe, Ukraine needs to remain a neutral buffer zone between two antagonistic superpowers, NATO and Russia.
The West went as far as to command, demand, or coerce nonaligned world leaders to abandon their neutral stance threatening them with all kinds of sanctions and threats, and insinuating them being immoral sinners[+][+] for not condemning alleged evil.
For instance, in April 2022, the US government sponsored a political coup[»] and persecution[+] against Pakistan's democratically elected Prime Minister Imran Khan[»] due to his non-aligned foreign policy and neutrality in the Ukraine war.
It is against human rights and civil liberties to coerce anyone, much less the whole nations, to take a side in a conflict and so drag them into it making them suffer severe consequences. Every human being and a state have every right to stay neutral[+] or non-aligned. It is also against the constitutional rights of the members of the Non-Aligned Movement to coerce them to align with Ukraine.
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)[+] is a forum of 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. After the United Nations, it is the largest grouping of states worldwide. It was established in 1961 (in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) through an initiative of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito (who was the first Chair of NAM), Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, and Indonesian President Sukarno. The current Chair is Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan. The purpose of the organization was summarized by Fidel Castro as to ensure "the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries" in their "struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics." The movement has been outspoken in its criticism of current UN structures and power dynamics, and advocating for the reforming of the United Nations Security Council[+], stating that it has been used by powerful states in ways that violate the movement's principles. The movement accepts the universality of human rights and social justice but fiercely resists cultural homogenization[+] appealing for the protection of cultural diversity, and the tolerance of the religious, socio-cultural, and historical particularities that define human rights.
In other words, non-alignment or neutrality is a commendable feat cultivated by most of the countries in the world, which the West has no right to trample, especially given that the West is notorious for being immoral[»][»][»][»][»][»], malicious[+], oppressive[+], aggressive[ꚛ][ꚛ][+][+], arrogant[»][+], and other attributes that are closer to evil than good. Nevertheless, they do it even disgracefully overtly[+][»][+].
Yet, in a joint event at the Munich Security Conference[+][»] on 18 February 2023, the warmongering foreign ministers of the US, Germany, and Ukraine told the world, “Neutrality is not an option” in the West’s proxy war against Russia, implicitly criticizing the vast majority of Global South countries that are neutral[+][+] and members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)[+]. Western leaders have been affirming that they are seeking allies in their war against Russia and telling the rest of the world “You can’t be neutral” in the Ukraine war: “You are either with us or against us”[+] recalling President G. W. Bush’s infamous declaration[+] (in the context of GWOT7 [+]).
Russians, on the other hand, have never demanded or coerced any world leaders to abandon their neutrality. Quite the opposite. For instance, they demand Ukraine to be a neutral state (not to join either NATO or CSTO8[+] military alliance), although they would have every right to demand their fellow Eastern Slavs9 to ally with them (and Belarus and other post-Soviet states), which would be most natural regarding ethnic, ancestral, traditional, linguistic, historical, and economic ties.
There are also many NATO states politicians calling for neutrality[»], including some Members of the European Parliament such as Clare Daly, Mick Wallace, and Manuel Pineda, along with many more across the Atlantic. However, their voices have been largely suppressed and absent in mainstream media. Thanks to the internet, they manage to come through.
The debate on neutrality can be ended with a single point: if, according to NATO leaders, “neutrality is not an option” and “states can’t be neutral” in the armed conflict in Ukraine, then the same should apply also to all the other countries at war[+][+] such as Syria, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen, Israel, etc. but for some reason, NATO officials are not urging the world leaders to abandon neutrality in all those wars, which exposes their double standards again. Following what they preach, all NATO countries should also not be then neutral in all those other wars in the world but are all NATO countries sanctioning all the other world invaders and sending weapons to all those nations that are victims of aggression? If not, then they are hypocrites while preaching what they don't do. Moreover, why didn't those NATO officials urge the world not to be neutral from the beginning of the war in 2014 when Ukrainians were the aggressors killing and terrorizing thousands of innocent civilians in Eastern Ukraine? Think about that.
Globalists’ and NATO ideology “if you are not with us, you are against us”[+] is based on bivalent logic[+][+] and exploited to generate polarization, reject non-partisanship, and gain allies. The implied consequence of not joining the partisan effort of the speakers is to be deemed an enemy. Only when the speaker is Jesus or some saint or high priest, and when there are no alternatives like a middle ground10 [+] does that phrase hold validity, thus, neither Zelensky nor his allies have the right to demand bias or to condemn neutrality. In their context, that phrase renders neutrality as a sin[+][+] – they condemned it and present it even as evil (not opposing alleged evil is deemed as evil). However, neutrality is a virtue, a constructive mode of consciousness1 [+], which allows constructive, objective peace mediation and negotiation.
As seen on the scale of consciousness[ꚛ], neutrality is valued at 250 log while rivalry is at 185, and inconsiderateness, assuming moral superiority (arrogance, conceit), making threats, and intimidation are even lower – the threshold between constructive and destructive modes of consciousness (virtues and flaws) is at 200, whereby everything above 200 is constructive and a virtue while everything below 200 is destructive and a flaw. Note that neutrality is not one of the highest modes of consciousness but it is certainly higher than prejudice, bias, one-sidedness, discrimination, hatred, rivalry, or any other destructive modes, and it may serve as a stepping stone on the route to one of the highest modes of consciousness – peace.
In times of international conflict, neutrality has often paid off handsomely in material advantage and prevention of loss of life. In areas where moral and spiritual values are concerned, according to some Christian teachers[+], neutrality is deemed to be a twilight zone of irresponsibility that plays directly into the hands of evil, but who is evil in this conflict – the West or East? Moreover, who has the authority to judge who is good and who is evil in this conflict between NATO-backed Ukraine and Russia? Christian doctrine condemns judging[+] but if we are forced to judge, then we should be able to do it on our own without any coercion from any sinners. Who are NATO and Ukraine to tell[+] us they are good and Russia is evil?! Are they God's representatives on the Earth? They justify their demand on the fact that Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, but Ukraine did it first in 2014 (attacking Russian ethnic minorities in Donbas11 [+] for many years, killing thousands of civilians) and NATO has been invading countries and killing people all the time, thus their justification doesn't have a leg to stand on.
When Jesus said, “Whoever is not with me is against me,” (Bible, Matthew 12:30[+] and Luke 11:23[+]), he never condemned neutrality or demanded that anyone should join him or be against anyone let alone kill or harm others (he was all for turning the other cheek[+]). That quote was uttered in the context of division in a kingdom while he was being suspected to be the son of a demon (the Son of Beelzebul rather than David) because he was able to drive demons out of people. Jesus explained the contest between Satan and Christ or the Holy Spirit – in other words, how darkness can't drive out darkness, only light can do that. So, when “darkness” comes, we choose either to switch on the light or not; there is no other neutral option. In this sense, this non-neutrality applies to dark places such as Ukraine (people there need to switch on the light inside themselves or keep living in the dark) but not the whole world, otherwise, all countries should be expected to engage in every single war on the planet[+][+], not just in Ukraine. This is not what pacifist Jesus meant, just as he didn't mean that all non-Christians are against him just because they are not with him. Also, not everyone's job is to judge or expel evil, therefore, not all countries’ leaders are obliged to do it unless their people are “possessed” by demons.
No one is essentially evil; people are not inherently evil, as all human beings are God's children. Some forces might be evil but not people themselves. People may be possessed by evil forces, which is evident from their agitated behavior, and such souls should be helped rather than forsaken. All of us have a good and evil side in ourselves; no one is innocent or pure evil. Stonewalling or judging or condemning any God's children as if they are nothing but sinners or evil is itself sinful, so to all those who are assuming moral superiority over others, we appeal to their conscience using Jesus's wise words: "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at…Russians/the West"[+], “Do not judge, or you too will be judged”, “Do not resist the one who is evil”[+], and “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you… Do to others as you would have them do to you.”[+]
The West's vilifying of neutrality has pushed most of the world's leaders to side with Russia. NATO leaders made the mistake of roaring at national leaders with slogans such as “If you are not with us, you are against us” and “You can’t be neutral” because most of those leaders then responded something to the effect: “Well then, if we are not allowed to be neutral, then we are against you because you have been mean to us.” Most countries in the world have bad experiences with NATO countries, many considering them even as evil, whereas they have good experiences with Russia. The rest of the World is not buying the Western narrative about this war because they understand that Russia had a good reason to take the action that it did and that they have been provoked into doing it. Very much like many other unsubmissive, smart leaders, if anyone coerces us to abandon our neutrality, we would take their inconsiderateness, arrogance, threats, and intimidation as a sign of immorality or malevolence and therefore pick the other side.
This NATO's hostile approach to neutrality has had a severe backlash with countries abandoning neutrality to take the Russian side, as well as the Chinese side (in the US conflict with China over Taiwan and beyond). So, when NATO heads realized that, they started to take costly measures to bring some powerful countries back to neutrality.
For instance, with India when in June 2023, India's PM Modi – a man who just a few years ago was vilified and denied entry to the United States – had to be “bribed” or enticed with a long list of concessions and packages spanning defense, trade, aid to increase renewable energy (because it is in the US interest that India buys less gas from Russia, fueling Russian economy), and other emerging technology, such as investment to turn India into a semiconductor powerhouse (as US is encouraging American chipmakers to decrease their dependence on China). Also, the US was obligated to solve issues of visa renewal for India's immigrants in the US, as well as return many embezzled India’s artifacts and antiquities.[+]
To foster neutrality as a way to end this horrific war, we put together this neutrality-minded peace initiative that is not just informative but transformational. The reason why this peace initiative is transformational is that it offers the truth that will set everyone free. Everyone believes they know the truth about Russia, Ukraine, and other involved nations (the US and other NATO members) but if their truth is hatred-driven, unconstructive, detrimental, or toxic, then you can be sure that it is not the truth.
The ultimate truth is neutral. It is neutral because it is not partial or one-sided and because it is void of egoistic opinion and judgment, also because it is aligned with the universal law of polarity, which regulates the balanced interaction of positive and negative qualities in nature, including the nature of men. And above all, truth is neutral because it is rooted in Oneness and beyond a dualistic worldview.
We should always be truthful, but what is truthful for one group of people, is not truthful to others, because most humans have no clear means of distinguishing the truth from lies due to personal impurity. The lack of transparency, disinformation, misinformation, propaganda, and deception are other major impediments to knowing the truth. Objectivity is a tool for seeking the truth. But, it is almost impossible to be objective when you are in a conflict and when you rely only on information from the propaganda-driven media and hearsay.
The role of journalists is to tell facts and truth as they see it, which is often not as it really is. Being susceptible to business pressures, media organizations mostly favor sensationalized, taken-out-of-context, and even inaccurate stories. Many reporters prey upon delegitimizing certain public figures, as they need the polarization or interplay of good and evil notables to keep up the dynamics needed to make stories interesting, marketable, and commercial. And if there are not enough evil guys to construct a money-making plot, then they need to invent them.
However, many other reporters are genuine truth-seekers. However, still they are mostly biased on the issues they report and that is okay in journalism. The same applies to politicians, lawyers, and activists – they need to be partial to balance the unstable or crooked state of affairs, or to make things change for the better, especially if the status quo is itself inclined in the other direction.
For instance, a woman activist could never be neutral or objective on women's inequality issues and it would not serve any purpose to be neutral. She should never draw false moral equivalence and would need to be subjective to make a difference.
Peacemakers, on the other hand, can’t afford to be biased, preferential, partisan, subjective, one-sided, or opinionated. They need a genuine stance of objectivity and neutrality to be able to appeal to both sides to make peace. Peacemakers who assume moral superiority over a party in conflict are doomed to fail.
They don't need to show courage in expressing their views on issues at hand or have the willingness to confront “the evil” because peacemaking is not about them at all and it is also not about issues but about making peace. The apparent issues are never real issues.
When peacemakers are initially biased about an issue and then for the sake of peacemaking efforts make an effort to be objective and neutral, mostly it’s disingenuous and therefore usually ineffective. Neutrality or rather neutralness is a mode of consciousness1 [+], a virtue, rather than an agenda.
As peacemakers, we need to overcome the notion that our own opinions and positions are worth entertaining if we are ever going to get to a place where we truly may facilitate the conditions for peacemaking, and where both conflicted sides feel confident placing their trust in our abilities to run good mediation and fair stewardship. We have to earn our trust and respect by giving equal time to both sides. Who are we to judge who are really the bad guys anyway?! No one is innocent, there is a bad side in all of us, as well as a good side in all those whom most people perceive as the bad guys.
Hatred and oppression can’t be uprooted from “the bad guys” by disrespectfully treating them as the bad guys – this only justifies and reinforces their hatred of us. By showing respect, fairness, neutralness, open-mindedness, and compassion to hateful beings, it is possible to even convert them to that which we call “light” and refers to anything constructive. It is inhumane to treat any human inhumanely. All people who treat others with hatred or any other type of hostility are inhumane, whatever the excuse. If we inhumanely treat those whom we deem inhumane, how are we any better than them?!
Being neutral doesn’t mean being untruthful, as some might see it. Being neutral is more about being open-minded and fair. In situations in which there is a lack of moral equivalence, neutrality can be maintained by inquiring about the causes of the immorality of those who inflict harm on others. By digging deep enough, we often find that on the whole, there is actually moral equivalence. The perceived innocents often turn out not to be as innocent as they seem or as they present themselves to be.
While being neutral and objective, it is permissible for peacemakers to state truthful, objective facts. This doesn’t diminish their neutrality. On the whole, peacemakers are still neutral, even if they are pointing out the facts in favor of one or the other side throughout the peacemaking process. It is all about tipping the scales here and there while keeping the main goal in mind, which is making peace. In other words, at times it will seem that the propositions in this peace initiative are in favor of one side or the other, which is needed for a truthful or factful presentation of arguments but overall, when adding it all up, the pros and the contras, it is a neutral peace initiative, not favoring one or the other side. That is why it is important to read it all to the end, otherwise, it is possible to come to totally wrong conclusions.
This truce proposal relies on an extensive apparatus of secondary sources such as peer-reviewed monographs and articles and tertiary sources such as analyses and media sources.
In this peace initiative, we present the only solution to end the war in Ukraine in the shortest time possible. One that no one else has proposed. A novel approach to end wars, as well as to prevent them. This solution is based on raising collective consciousness[+] from the modes of rivalry and animosity to the mode of neutrality and then to peace. It is simple and doable.
People who are so deeply rooted in hatred towards everything Russian or Putin, so-called Russophobes, a neutral position such as ours may be perceived and condemned as apologetic towards an alleged “evil regime”, which would be false. Haters pose a danger to world peace and we are not here to serve or support them.
To be able to perceive truth, it is important to distance yourself from the one-sided information you might have been bombarded with and that might have indoctrinated you, robbing you of objectivity and neutrality. This is why, for this peace initiative, we took time to carry out complex research and shed some light on the state of current affairs and the route the participants are heading. The route to peace is paved with virtues[ꚛ]. Hopefully, this peace initiative will inspire you to take that route, to activate and cultivate your virtues of fairness, objectiveness, neutrality, and such.
In a sea of subjective assessments floating all around the media space, we aim to provide an objective account of all the grounds supporting this peace initiative. For that reason, we are offering none of our irrelevant opinions but giving you the data so that you can draw your own conclusions. If we happen to express our opinion and we do not provide evidence or an external link to evidence, you are free to ignore it. It is not our job to express our opinions or tell anyone what to do but we see it as our duty to lay out the facts for this peace initiative so that a fact-based truce can be achieved sooner rather than later and many lives could be saved.
Why Siding With One or the Other Side
For those who maintain that neutrality is rather a flaw if they are led to strongly believe that this war is a battle between good and evil, we invite them to activate critical thinking and free thinking capabilities to reconsider who is evil here, if anyone at all. Throughout much of this peace initiative, which is aimed mostly at pro-Ukrainian audiences, we provide much evidence to prove that NATO and Ukrainians are not the good guys that they claim to be and that Russians are not evil. If invading another country were “evil”, then the US would be the most evil country in the world, as it has invaded more countries than anyone else in recent human history.
Currently, the US is illegally occupying Syria and several other African nations (Sudan, Niger…), whose governments do not want them there, not to mention all the previous illegal US military occupations (Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Panama, Grenada), thus they are worse than Russians. Whenever Russia has militarily intervened in a country, it was only because the government of that country has requested it, while the US and some other its NATO allies intervene by supporting anti-government aggressive rebels – a huge difference, proving that NATO intervenes to overthrow the legal governments and steal their natural resources, like Trump admitted it here[»].
· For instance, we will lay out plenty of undeniable evidence that it was not Russia but NATO-puppet Kyiv regime that invaded first, as everyone, including NATO leaders and Zelensky admitted that the war started not in February 2022 (by Russia) but in 2014[*] (by Ukraine). It was Kyiv that sent its troops to the Donbas region with ethnic Russians in April 2014 to kill and terrorize them (because they protested against the new undemocratically self-appointed, anti-Russian, revolutionary government that came to power by force backed by the US and the EU) and by the time Russia sent its troops in 2022, Kyiv has already killed almost 14.000 civilians there. If invading and killing civilians is a measure to call someone evil, then Kyiv regime fits the profile.
· We will also lay out many of already officially debunked lies from both NATO and Kyiv authorities (both from governments[*] and media[*]) proving that they are untrustworthy. You may not think that lying in itself is evil but the amount of lying and the topics of lying may make you think twice, so make sure to find that out. If you think, so what, Putin and Russians are lying too, brace yourself for a paradigm shift as we will debunk[*] all major allegations of Putin lying. No doubt, Russians do engage in some war propaganda but no more than NATO leaders do. Even if you still believe that Putin is a liar, that is beside a point, because the main point here is that Zelensky, Biden, and Co. lie, too, which is why this is not a basis to decide one side is good and other is evil.
· If your judgement of who is good and who evil rests upon on the valuation of democracy = good, autocracy = evil, then you need to do a research to find out which country is more democratic, Ukraine or Russia. Our research has shocked us and it may shock you to find out[*] that Russia is much more democratic than Ukraine.
· But perhaps these two videos[»][»] show the best which side in this conflict is more evil or at least not “the good guys”, so make sure to watch them:
“America Angry As Russia Leaks Classified Files About Gaddafi’s Murder”:
If you strongly believe you must side with one or the other rather than stay neutral, here we offer arguments for siding with one or the other side with the aim of ending the horrific war in Ukraine by means of raising awareness and consciousness rather than military means. Considering Russia's military superiority and realities on the battlefields, ending this war by military means signifies ending it completely on Russian terms and with huge casualties, losses, and destruction, which is why we propose to end it by other means before it is too late.
Ukrainians and their NATO masters are too proud or too delusional to admit they have been defeated already in 2022, which is why they prolong this war and only we, the public, can put a stop to it before it is too late (Ukraine gets wiped off the map and nuclear war escalation). While Russia and Ukraine were ready to sign a peace deal already in March 2022, pressured by his NATO masters, Zelensky backed off from it and even issued a decree in September 2022 prohibiting any peace negotiation with Russia, therefore rejecting all peace initiatives proposed by various world leaders.
The lack of regard for human life by Kyiv regime and their backers, the globalists, is based on their depopulation agenda12 that derives from the belief that the planet is overpopulated and especially overpopulated with their enemies who also pollute the planet. Ukraine has always been categorized[+] as part of “the developing countries” that allegedly needed to be depopulated, which they also achieved – since 1991 independence, population almost halved from almost 52 million to now 30 million, according to Zelensky in January 2024[+] and Wikipedia.
While standing by Ukraine is already well-established proposition, we don’t need to provide here any additional justification for it. However, to that, we wish to point out that solidarity for Ukraine should not mean contributing to their loss of lives and territories, as this is exactly what so-called solidarity has led to. Providing Ukraine with weapons is not solidarity for Ukraine but it is weapons for Ukraine. Arming Ukraine only prolongs their suffering and increases their casualties and other losses, including the loss of evermore territories. An earlier peace deal would have saved hundreds thousands of lives, allowed refugees to return to their homes or homeland, and prevented further destruction and loss of more territories, which is why pushing for peace is a true meaning of solidarity for Ukraine.
Ukraine would be much better off by being in Russian rather than Western sphere of influence – Russia's economy is much better than that of the EU, UK, and US, as evidenced by statistics from Western sources. The predatory US, UK, and EU are in decline while Russia is on the rise. Ukraine would be better off if it aligned itself with fellow Eastern Slavs also because they share the same values, history, and ancestors, and will be able to progress more by harnessing the power from their roots.
Here is the list of type of people who should side with either Russia or Ukraine/NATO, if they still believe that neutrality is not an option:
All the people who disagree with American or Western ultraliberal values, rules, and laws such as allowing kids to change their gender without parents’ consent, allowing pervert men to use women toilets and locker rooms by simply claiming they identify as a woman, allowing men to compete in women's sports so that women have no chance of winning, and many other similar policies may want to side with Russia and those who agree with ultraliberal values may want to side with Ukraine/NATO. People (including Ukrainians) who do not want all that should side with a new world order in which Russia and China increase their sphere of influence because they prevent the Western hegemony and unipolar world. Moscow positioned itself as a bastion of strength in a world gone mad[»][»][»][»][ꚛ][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][»][ꚛ][ꚛ], preserving traditional values.
“A time will come when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘you are mad, you are not like us.’” - St. Anthony the Great
All true Christians may side with Russia while others may side with Ukraine & NATO. Russians stand by Christian values while Ukrainians and many Westerners devalue Christian teachings by promoting anti-Christian agenda such as a ‘gender-neutral’ God, same-sex marriages, homosexuality, hedonism, narcissism, promiscuity, perversity, adultery, idolizing money and material values, usury, greed, gluttony, depravity, decadence, etc. Also, as we explain in another article[*], Kyiv regime has often disrespectfully criticized[+][+] Pope Francis using strong language. Also, many Ukrainians reproached the Pope for suggesting peace negotiations[+][»] calling him all sorts of vulgar names[+], such as “stupid c*nt”, “a**hole”, “Putin's bootlicker”, “anti-Christ”, a "communist's puppet" and such! Frankly, no idea how any self-respecting Catholic may support Kyiv regime and Ukrainians after that. Also, Zelensky disrespected Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican in May 2023 by blatantly rejecting his proposal to mediate peace talks, giving him an icon with a missing Jesus[+][ꚛ], sitting down before Pope sat down (a gross violation of the protocol), and showing up in a sweatshirt[ꚛ] (but he put on a suit for neo-Nazi paramilitaries[ꚛ] as if he respects them more than the Pope) with a Nazi emblem[+][ꚛ].
People who want to be allowed to buy inexpensive Chinese cars, mobile phones and other gadgets, instead of being forced (through bans and tariffs) to buy overpriced American, German, British, and French goods – such people should also prefer a new world order in which Russia and China increase their sphere of influence. Did you know that, for instance, the same quality EW car like Tesla (that costs over $40.000) from China (BYD) costs just $10.000?! But in the West, we are not allowed to buy it. The same applies to many other things like Huawei phones and other gadgets that are banned in the West. Do you think your government has the right to deprive you of inexpensive goods and force you to buy overpriced goods from Western billionaires making them richer and you poorer? If you are forced to buy many things double or triple the price, then you are poorer because of it.
People who agree that Russia has the right to denazify Ukraine – in a separate article on Russian demand of Denazification[*], we will offer plenty of evidence of Ukraine being No.1 hub of neo-Nazis in the world and as such a threat to Europe and humanity but as a starter, we offer a small video collection[»] as a proof.
People who want to be allowed to benefit from Russian culture – in the current world order, Western public is deprived of having an (easy) access to Russian literature, music, movies, shows, fashion, news, etc. because the Western governments block or censor most of the content coming from Russia, allowing only from those who are anti-government, which has no value.
Thank you for reading this article and participating in this peace initiative by raising your awareness and, hopefully, your consciousness and spirit. To grasp everything as intended, we recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative for Ukraine in the order that we designed it, which is listed in the Contents. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we recommend that you do. When you are ready, please proceed to the next article in this series: This Is Not A Real War
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)[+] is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, formed in 2002.
Moderation is the process of moderating a debate, as well as of eliminating or lessening extremes (balancing).
Mediation is a structured, interactive process where an impartial third party neutrally assists disputing parties in resolving conflict through the use of specialized communication and negotiation techniques.
Poroshenko is a Bandera[+] (Nazi collaborator in WWII whose troops massacred around 100.000 civilians, mostly Jews, Poles, and Roma) follower and adheres to ideology that is the same as or akin to Nazi ideology. He believes Ukrainian race or folk is superior to Russian and like WWII Nazis who were against Jews and Slavs, so is Poroshenko, like all Nazi and neo-Nazi Bandera followers, assuming superiority and hostility towards Russians openly ever since 2014. Just like Bandera, who had openly stated[+] that both Jews and Poles had no place in a sovereign Ukrainian state, Poroshenko openly stated that ethnic Russians had no place in a sovereign Ukrainian state and, moreover, that there is no place for nationalities in Ukraine[+]. As a scientific Brill and OSCE study[+] (by political and policy analyst and human rights advocate, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities) reports, he pursued a policy of ‘nationalizing’ (Ukrainizing) minorities. He pushed the narrative that the political support to minority languages and improving the status of the state language are mutually exclusive and irreconcilable aims, thereby justifying his violations of human linguistic rights with his anti-ethnic minorities laws and reforms. Needless to say, by disregarding inclusivity and human linguistic rights, with such a polarized minority agenda forcing a single shared language, this ultranationalist president divided rather than united the country. Just as Nazis attempted to cultivate what they viewed as a "purified and homogeneous Aryan population," this is exactly what Poroshenko and later Zelensky regime attempted to do with their anti-ethnic minorities laws (2019 language law and 2017 education law, including banning Russian language in 30 spheres of life in a country in which 30%[+] of people – 14,3 million people declared Russian as their native language in the last national census; 8,3 million[+] of them identified as ethnic Russians – 17.3% of the population of Ukraine) – to Ukrainize or cultivate purified and homogeneous Ukrainian population, which involved ethnic cleansing and extermination of the most powerful ethno-linguistic minority – ethnic Russians whom they called “terrorists” and shelled them and discriminated against them for 8 years before Putin sent his troops in 2022 to rescue them. According to Wikipedia[+], Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and racial (including ethnic) supremacy, to attack racial and ethnic minorities, and in some cases to create a fascist state. This is exactly what hatred-driven Kyiv regime became since Poroshenko and Zelensky came to power assuming supremacy over ethnic Russians and attacking them while glorifying Nazi Bandera.
· Poroshenko used[+] the commemoration of Bandera and his OUN/UPA to try and pit ethnic Ukrainians against the Russian-speaking minority and its political parties.
· Poroshenko government’s support of a pro-fascist agenda is evident[+] in many street renamings replacing the former names with those of the Ukrainian Nazis Bandera and Shukhevich; erecting a monument to the Nazi collaborator Teliga in Babi Yar, the site of the mass execution of Kyiv Jews in 1941-1943; and, of course, the frequent torchlight processions by followers of Bandera.
· On 23 October 2014, then-President Poroshenko said[+]: "…Odesa is even called 'Banderovo'. And there is no greater compliment for Odesa for me!"
· On 23 October 2014, Poroshenko gave a notoriously bombastic neo-Nazi Hitler-like speech[»][»][»] in which he declared Nazi-like apartheid policies threatening to oppress and discriminate against children and civilians of ethnic Russians in Donbas (worse than Hitler did with the Jews): "We will have a job – they won't. We will have pensions – they won't. We will have the support of people – children and pensioners – but they won't. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, and they will sit in their basements. Because they don't know how to do anything! That's how, that's how we will win this war." He was referring to the Civil War in Donbas 2014-2022[+][+][+] that he conducted with his anti-Russian policies and sending neo-Nazi battalions to Donbas to kill and terrorize ethnic Russian civilians who protested his anti-Russian policies. This “beacon of democracy” clearly didn't know that first, second, and third duty of democracy is freedom for all.
· In May 2015, in favor of all things Bandera, Poroshenko signed a law[+][+] that gave the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN-UPA, who collaborated with the Nazis in 1940s executing ethnic cleansing and massacres of perceived subhumans such as Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, gays, etc.) the honorary status of "fighters for independence" of Ukraine and its participants the right to social security, making it also a crime to “publicly exhibit a disrespectful attitude” toward the OUN or UPA (Nazi collaborators in WWII), and in December 2018, he gave those original Banderites (1.201 people) a full recognition and the status of veterans[+][+]. , and in December 2018, he gave those original Banderites (1.201 people) a full recognition and the status of veterans[+][+].
· In March 2022, Poroshenko gave[+] two civilian pickup trucks labeled "Bandera-Mobiles" (with decals of Bandera's face on the hoods), in honor of Stepan Bandera, to the Territorial Defense Battalion of Kyiv.
MSM is abbrevation for main-stream media
SMO is abbrevation for Special Military Operation
according to the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, the war is not about territorial or political aims or influence but about spiritual or ‘metaphysical’ aims - battle against the Antichrist and anti-Christian values.
Global War on Terrorism but some people call it Global War of Terrorism as it was the US and its allies that terrorized millions of people
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, formed in 2002.
Eastern Slavs consist of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. There are also Western Slavs (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) and Southern Slavs (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia).
The golden mean or golden middle way is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
Donbas is a coal mining region that was part of eastern Ukraine from 1922-2022 (now part of Russian Federation) consisting of two Republics - Donetsk and Luhansk - where most residents have been ethnic Russians for centuries