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Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has warned that the world is on the brink of a new global war. According to him, the USA has lost the former peace...
"It's hard not to think about 1914, when events took an uncontrollable dynamic and triggered the First World War," says Joschka Fischer, weighing the words one by one.
The former German Foreign Minister, always an attentive observer of the Middle East, does not hide his great concern and pessimism in the face of the Gaza crisis, which "pushes the entire region to the brink of a general conflict".
The war launched by Vladimir Putin against Ukraine was only the first domino, which is "finally putting the post-1945 American peace in crisis" and causing a "new geopolitical polarization in which no one will gain an advantage." According to Fischer, there is "a striking parallel" between the war in Ukraine and what is taking place in the Gaza Strip: "Both have essentially an existential struggle for the survival of a nation-state."
The former vice chancellor is convinced that Iran played a decisive leading and supporting role in the brutal Hamas attack and that Israel "has no choice but to respond militarily, to restore its deterrent capacity", despite the cost lives of people and excavations. A scenario that incites deeper hatred between the two parties. This, Fischer claims, was precisely "the outcome hoped for by those who planned and executed the October 7 terrorist attack."
But looking up, Ukraine and Gaza confirm that we are witnessing the emergence of a new world order, where the West has aligned itself with Kiev and Tel Aviv, while powers such as China and Russia, as well as almost the entire so-called South Global are on the opposite front. "It's a dynamic that the West simply cannot afford to accept," Fischer warns, according to whom "it will be necessary to deploy titanic diplomatic efforts to stop it." Efforts in which it will be necessary to consider the demand for recognition and "a seat at the table" coming from the Global South.
Also because the two major conflicts do not occur in a vacuum. At the same time, potential hotbeds of war are simmering in the Caucasus between Azerbaijan and Armenia, in the Balkans between Serbia and Kosovo, in Africa in the Sahel, where a series of military coups and the strategic withdrawal of France have plunged the area into total chaos. Last but not least, recalls Fischer, "the risk of a military clash in the China Sea and Taiwan Strait is increasing, in which the American and Chinese superpowers would end up being directly involved."
And here, the former Foreign Minister is called to the lecture of History: "The attempts to change the balance of global power and to establish a new international order have never happened without violence. This makes the tone of the great powers towards each other more aggressive and all the more disturbing".
Countries that challenge pax Americana want to exploit its weaknesses: “The will of the international community to maintain the status quo has diminished significantly. Reason conquers ambition, which once again becomes hostage to nationalist and religious passions".
What we see today is only "a remnant of a world without order." Fischer, however, praises the "mature and experienced leadership" of US President Joe Biden, whom many would like to mock because of his age, and wonders what would happen in this Middle East crisis in his absence his: "The world would be even more. uncertain and dangerous than what it is." / Pamphlet
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