CONVOCATION 30 March 2025: What Scares Us Is Rearmament
What scares us is rearmament Profoundly outraged, we listen to the announced alarming increase in European military spending (up to 800 billion € in 4 years). This rearmament will no t bring more security to Europe. It is not going to bring us security because it never has. We are worried that we are headed towards a new world war. What we fear is the threat of a war, the very same thing those which sustain the rearmament initiative argue. Rearmament, however, is the best way to start a war, not to avoid it. We are frightened by the declarations of our governments and those coming from European institutions, affirming that our defense will be the increase in weapons and trivializing the consequences of wars. A new war would have tragic consequences for future generations and on the environment. We denounce the hypocrisy with which some armed conflicts are dealt with in contrast to others. The language changes depending on where the instruments of war will be sent to or where...