WE ARE AT WAR

May 5th, 2025 - At the beginning of May, it’s a time of commemorations in Europe and in many parts of the world for those who lived through the atrocities of the Second World War.

Unfortunately, for the combatants of the First World War, who have now passed away and are largely forgotten, the grim consequences caused by this war continue. This is how the newspaper "Le Monde" published GRIM WAR - ’The "War to End All Wars’ continues to pollute the atmosphere. - Among the billion shells fired between 1914 and 1918, 15% are estimated to still not have exploded, according to Eric Lombard, deputy head of the civil security mine clearance office, which still poses risks of detonation. Added to this is an environmental problem. For example, in the autumn of 2012, 550 towns in the Nord - Pas-de-Calais region found themselves without drinking water. This had been contaminated with ammonium perchlorate, a component of the detonators of First World War weapons."

"We are at war!" A phrase invariably repeated by our leaders since the COVID period. A phrase so often repeated and in all circumstances that it has come to distort the very act of war and trivialize the atrocities it encompasses. What do these military personnel sporting numerous decorations and pontificating on TV sets know about war and its atrocities? The atrocious hand-to-hand combat where you have to kill your fellow human being because you have been ordered to? And where you see death in their eyes and after that, you have to kill another and yet another? By what right can those among our leaders who have never done their military service nor physically taken part in a war issue a judgment on a war?

It is a legitimate question to ask with what authority those who have never known the smell of gunpowder or the fear in their gut can allow themselves to judge or comment on war. Isn’t there an abysmal distance between their words and the brutal reality on the ground? No war is clean, and the media that try to present us with CLEAN wars are mistaken. Even if the media talk little or not at all about it, with wars, there are always human losses, disabled people, physical and psychological syndromes, refugees, injustices, and hatreds forever rooted, regardless of which side one takes.

’We are at war!’ War is not a video game, even if attempts are made to make us believe so through the advertising of military drones. In 1933, the new tanks that were supposed to decide future wars were similarly touted.

Those who talk about equipment, nuclear missile manufacturing cartels, munitions, and all kinds of armaments forget one thing and the most important one: HUMAN MATERIAL. ’We are at war!’ Just like the assimilation of drones to video games, certain words are used to deliberately distort reality and make us forget the horror of war!

In his article ’Do Cannon Merchants Need War?’ (Les Annales - April 1933), the journalist Paul Allard already mentioned the problem of ’HUMAN MATERIAL.’ Accompanying his article were photos of Bolivian, Italian, German, American, French, Romanian, Polish, English, Russian, and Hungarian infantries. The caption read: ’Rifles, helmets, equipment, soldiers... It is not only the cannon merchants who work for war! This impressive collection of photos shows another aspect of the problem of war materials: human material.

To those who tirelessly repeat ’We are at war!’, I reply: "Despite your supposed importance, you are worth nothing. You are nothing compared to former infantry combatants of the First World War such as Mr. Alfred Paul René HENRIC was, born in Mirepoix-sur-Tarn 31340, France, and deceased on June 24, 1989, at the age of 96.". Mr. Alfred Paul René HENRIC was the last survivor of the First World War (1914-1918) veterans in his village. He had fought in the trenches at Verdun, received 7 citations for bravery, and had been decorated with 4 medals including: Knight of the Legion of Honour, the Military Medal, the Croix de Guerre, and the Combatant’s Medal. But during that grim war, he had also been gassed and buried alive with the dead, his comrades. He had survived, with inoperable shrapnel lodged in his skull.

Ladies and Gentlemen Warmongers, you are worth nothing, you are only poor fools, because you will be quickly forgotten, whereas you, Alfred Paul René HENRIC, will remain in memories, in my memory, Oh you, my great-grandfather, my dear grandpa, who passed on your memory to me, I Terrificator! May your ghost and all your comrades who fell on the field of honor under the orders of impious governments forever haunt all the irresponsible warmongers who despise human lives.