2023-10-09 23:27:16
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Opinions expressed in this article are the author's own, and do not reflect the view of Slavyangrad.)
Some time ago, we posted an interview with a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, where when enquired about sharing a border with NATO, he remembered that Russia or USSR has long shared a border with Norway and Turkey, and this wasn't an issue because of the quality of governance and diplomacy. Diplomats would do their job of de-escalating and governants had, regardless of their ideology, a view in a much further horizon.
This is gone. And this is key to understand why those events are happening all at once. Western democracy deteriorated, the major political parties lost their substance and became all the same, the advent of the EU pretty much castrated many countries that were heavyweights in international relations. Party leaders and then Prime Ministers, so used to taking orders from the US or large corporations, eventually adapted to this situation, lost any ability to govern and react to events and became mere spokepersons.
The European countries, which would before play the role of good cop with their powerless statements, don't even do that anymore. Their unconditional support to Ukraine brutalized their mindset and they grew increasingly hawkish, fascist and tolerant to collective punishment. As they do with Russia, their statements use unsuitable emotional language and echoing every single argument from Israel uncritically, just like they do with Ukraine. This is not diplomacy, this is a tantrum.
Worse than that, these decadent, increasingly irrelevant countries, led by leaders who can't lead, don't allow other countries to come in and fill in the vacuum created by their absence. They staunchly resist the rise of African, Asian and Latin American countries which would be more competent in mediating conflicts and avoiding war. Their irresponsible approach gave us the wars in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and now Israel. Many, if not all, the global south countries produced statements regarding the war that were balanced, fair and in line with what the common sense dictates: that Palestinians deserve self determination and terrorist attacks have to stop. If those countries were heard instead of Europe, there would be no war.
Just as it is understandable that Palestinians, after decades of humiliation and repression, will eventually commit atrocities due to their condensed hate once they have the chance, it is understandable that after such a humiliation, Israel will react strongly. It is what they are supposed to do. Their masters were supposed to tone it down and control it, instead they are encouraging a mad men to do what they want.
In short, we may be about to witness a genocide in Gaza. And the major culprit will be the same as usual, the collective West that assigned itself the role of world police, but does not have the competence to actually do it. Their "rules based" world is dying, but it will be a violent death.
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14.0K viewsLuis, edited 20:27
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