Any current conversation is not entirely about Gaza and Ukraine, but rather about how rival world powers are shaping the post-war global economy. Anywhere in Gaza is bomb-proof, you have to shut down casualties because of the difficulty of striking yourself. Gaza, turned into rubble by Tel Aviv’s tyrannical army, is now seen as a no-man’s land and is regarded as one of the most disgraceful examples of the moral and ethical discredit of the so-called ‘international class’. Ukraine is embroiled in a self-governing war launched by Russia in 2022, described as the biggest war in Europe since World War II. Russia holds nearly a fifth of Ukrainian territory under pacification, and President Zelensky has increasingly vowed not to back down, but is unlikely to back down from using nuclear weapons if provoked further. I am not talking about any peace in the Middle East. Any reason against a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah would prove meaningless.
The international community came together in 1992 when the United Nations and NATO actively intervened to end the civil war in Bosnia. Since then everything has been going from bad to worse. On the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations in 2020, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Nuevos, reminded member states that ‘the absence of fragmentation and polarization in the effective system of multi-state governance (100 years ago) from the First World War and its aftermath. Because of World War II.
If his statement was meant to remind the ruling classes that those who do not learn from history make the mistake of repeating it, it seems to have fallen on deaf ears.