We're soldiers and that's fine

Le Regard Libre N° 64 - Antoine Menusier

The appearance of Covid-19 has created an unprecedented and destabilizing situation. The population was mobilized, in the quasi-military sense of the word, against an enemy who was, however, unarmed. Particularly during the period of confinement, the concentration of power in the hands of the Federal Council seemed unbearable to some. The anti-systems had a field day. An epidemic of obedience.

In the protected West, war has long been the war of others. The peace established in 1945 on a cooperative basis blocked the very possibility of war. The notable exception was the successive conflagrations in the former Yugoslavia after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We concluded, somewhat to reassure ourselves, that they consisted of a belated, poorly-operated emptying of the East-West conflict - which was in part the reason for the war.