For the oldest, who had already been born in the sixties of the last century, it was a part of their nightmares, something that Mafalda talked about and there was even a magazine in English with that name. MAD in English means crazy (or crazy), "crazy in the head" as my friend Luis Pellicer likes to say. That is why they were also used as an acronym for Mutually Assured Destruction, that is, mutually assured destruction, which was and is the scene of an atomic war where the nuclear destructive power of the United States and the then Soviet Union was (and is today , changing coordinates), enough to destroy the world "several times".
Hence, the precautions to ensure that the war from then on would be a "limited war", a "cold war", where the main contenders would try "conventional weapons" (that is, not nuclear) and outside their territories, to which others will be killed. Hence the signing of treaties to limit "long-range" and "intermediate-range" missiles, in order to be able to play war "without risks" for the interests of those involved.
Mr. Trump announced in 2018 the rupture of the Treaty and on February 1, 2019 the United States formally withdrew, the next day Russia acted in reciprocity.
Capitalism requires war, since its irrationality demands infinite growth on a planet with finite resources. Today they “play” a war scenario in the Ukraine; the “Russian threat” campaign leaves little room for escalation in Korea or aggression against China. The game is to drag others into a "limited war" where others put the dead.
Here we commemorate 30 years of 4F, revitalizing a date and a process that has to do with the hope of another possible world. In this framework, a seminar is held by the Network in Defense of Humanity, created by commanders Chávez and Fidel, and which extends its national chapters to dozens of countries on all continents. The defense of humanity, in the face of the threat and practice of war, in the face of imperialist aggression, in the face of the growth of inequalities and poverty, in the face of the destruction of Mother Earth, is much needed. It is up to the peoples to develop our alternatives.
