TFF PressInfo # 770: The West forgot how to make peace and mindless militarism replaced conflict-resolution and mediation.

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May 24, 2025

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From TFF Director Jan Oberg
Lund, Sweden - May 24, 2025

Dear friend,

Welcome to The Transnational and TFF on Substack - particularly to our many new subscribers and followers. A warm “thank you” to our growing crowd of TFF supporters and subscribers - your comments, encouragements, invitations to cooperate, sharings, appreciations and your donations.

In these times of peacelessness, it’s easy for peace people - and others, of course - to get depressed. Thanks to you, we at TFF won’t. The hunger for peace-related views is growing exponentially.

Peace will win in the long run, and militarism, armament, and war will eventually be seen as a primitive and uncivilised thing of the past. They will be looked down upon and condemned as was, say, slavery, cannibalism, absolute monarchy, or child pornography.

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What’s new - and old - goodies this time?

TFF mostly produce writings, so I continue to point you in the direction of all the various categories of our Video Collections.

And here is the new bouquet of reports, analyses, and debate articles. Browse to your heart’s desire; gems everywhere:

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