What have the pacifists of the “first” generation achieved? Little. Was the “cold” war really cold? To speak and write of the “Cold War” seems to me to be too narrow-minded. Such a designation follows a “Western” semantics that ignores and seeks to erase the suffering of the numerous victims of the so-called proxy wars. And what about the brutal Russian “special operation” in Ukraine? It is a war of aggression in violation of international law. Russia is the aggressor. In 2023, Edgar Morin anxiously asks: “Will the intensification of the international war within Ukraine spill over the country’s borders, will the war spread to Europe and even beyond Europe?” Is the war in Ukraine the continuation of a proxy war by other means? And what does pacifism achieve today? Has pacifism failed, and has it become obsolete in the face of the Russian war of aggression? Perhaps pacifism is not only the guilty conscience of those who, out of chauvinism and narrow-mindedness, abuse their power to widen the gap between rich and poor, between the sexes, between the Global South and the West, between cultures, nations, and social communities for profit, but also a “humanism in action,” a humanism of “upright gait” in circumstances where freedom, equality, and solidarity still have to be fought for. But it is also not always easy to have a unified opinion on wars of aggression and wars of defense; especially not if one wishes to uphold the banner of pacifism.