Every day, for too long now, we have been learning about the horrors of war in Ukraine. This horror, which we are shown, is the same as that of other wars, in time and as elsewhere on the planet. It is not the leaders who make it, it is not those who decided it, nor the generals, but ordinary soldiers, in the process of losing their humanity. These soldiers not only fight against other soldiers, they also become sort of invading robots, obedient, destroying everything in their path, including civilians, children, women and men. And what we see is that once again the woman is a permanent victim […].
It is as if, in the end, implicitly, wars were not fought so much, and officially, for territory, oil or other obscure reasons, but against women, sometimes with their children, those victims who are not not as “collateral” as one would think. As if the possession of a territory was expressed jointly by that of the woman’s body, with the same level of destruction.
The “rules of war” are an oxymoron, because the red line has been crossed since putting a gun in the hands of a poor guy, giving him power to abuse, rape and destroy others . It also gives him, through the tape, the opportunity to express a cruel truth about him, an unbearable truth which affects us all as much as we are and which would require as sustained and worried attention as the possibility of an atomic war. The war against women is a long-standing one, waged against the foundations of humanity, and which has deeply wounded us ever since, and for a long time to come.