There is something cynical and revolting in seeing the world’s greatest military powers gathered in Hiroshima to discuss preparations for war.
In a way, this immense paradox represents an insult to the memory of all the victims of the American nuclear bomb of August 6, 1945, an immeasurable and unforgettable act of military aggression for which the United States has never apologized.
This summit of the rich countries, including the members of NATO, was intended to be an operation to attract new partners and to consult in order to continue the arms race and the destruction of the world. Such a display of artificial goodwill turns out, on its very face, to be an insult to all hibakushas (the survivors of this senseless bombardment) who have been fighting tirelessly for the abolition of nuclear weapons and for peace since 1945. Their struggle remains unresolved. The United States and its allies have nothing to do with this more than relevant opposition of the victims of the nuclear bomb, but above all with the war madness that drives the great economic powers. They are simply, cruelly, arrogantly ignored. We are content to lay wreaths at the foot of a monument without daring to say: never again Hiroshima!
Without embarrassment and without shame, we maintain the rate of the production of weapons in the name of our values, our democracy and our freedom, we chant in chorus on all the platforms. In reality, we wage war to promote and defend the economic interests of large transnational corporations which coincide, by chance, with the interests of the arms-producing states. Shareholders sigh with relief as they are actively listened to in the halls of parliaments, and the world changes to their advantage.
Curiously, the President of Ukraine, a special guest, declared to see a parallel between the destruction of Hiroshima and that of Bakhmout… In spite of everything, his allies in the war continue to promote war instead of peace.
Hiroshima could have inspired pacifist reflections in them, but life goes on, business as usual, the destruction and the deaths seem only peccadilloes, accidents of course without great importance. Only victory counts and all means are good to achieve it.