Strategic Apartheid
Juana Francés
Composición no 39, 1959
Antología intima. 1957-85
Exposición en el Museo Thyssen Málaga
15 March -19 June
(April 2022)
NATO would have us believe
(does it think we are naïve?)
that the demands of its members’ defence
require that they keep their powder dry
while the Ukrainians offer themselves up to die.
No matter how many weapons NATO may supply
it cannot deny
that its policies presuppose a different degree of security
for those of a single community.
Why should a border
on the European continent
determine under whose order
a people are destined to live?
Yes, shower the Ukrainians with weapons
yes, praise their bravery to the heavens
but do not hoist your soldiers
on to their shoulders!
This is an edifice
that teeters on a precipice.
Sooner rather than later
the truth will take its toll
sooner rather than later
the democracies will have to rethink their role.
Sooner rather than later
NATO will need to call Putin’s bluff
sooner rather than later
NATO will have to get tough.
And sooner rather than later
the artificial border
that separates the security of a westerner
from that of a non-westerner
will need to become part of yesteryear.
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