War as a Phenomenon and Reality: 02.24.2022

Abstract

The military aggression of Russia (RF) against Ukraine, which began in 2014 and received the status of a full-scale war on February 24, 2022, became a watershed in the history of modern Europe and the world, breaking the world order that existed for almost 70 years after World War II. An analysis of the causes of what happened today should be carried out not with a theoretical, but with an instrumental goal: its results should provide a clear understanding and specific tools of influence – «here and now» – on what is happening, since the war is relevant, it unfolds in real time and space, taking real lives and destroying real cities of a real country - Ukraine. The article analyzes war as a Phenomenon and a terrible Reality that occurs and unfolds «here and now»... An ontological analysis of the principle of inequality is undertaken – as a deep mechanism for the coexistence and interaction of states, whose value, discursive, existential and other differences inevitably lead to wars, if systemic “instruments of deterrence” are not purposefully and methodically introduced. Аnd the rules of mutual observance of common values in the process of their existence and life. The attitudes to the Past (History), Truth and the Other are analyzed as ontological foundations of the subjectivity of the state, dysfunctions within which lead to tragic crises, including war. Antinomic (opposite and invariably accompanying each other) traitssigns of societies-cultures are presented, which lead to antagonism and the impossibility of peaceful coexistence, since they reveal an essential, ontological contradiction – the inequality of values. The phenomenon of “subjectivity of the state” is characterized as a key instrument of sovereignty.