Europe is sleepwalking into another world war: Russia is at war with Ukraine because it is at war with Nato, which is commanded by the United States
More than 100 years after World War I, Europe’s leaders are sleepwalking toward a new all-out war. In 1914, the European governments believed that the war would last three weeks; it lasted four years and resulted in more than 20 million deaths. The same nonchalance is visible with the war in Ukraine. Then, the defeated power was Germany. Some dissenting voices, such as John Maynard Keynes, felt that the humbling of Germany would be a disaster. Their warnings went unheeded.
The Napoleonic wars took place between European powers; today’s war is between a European and a non-European power. It is a proxy war, with both sides using a third country to achieve geostrategic goals that go well beyond the country in question and the continent to which it belongs. Russia is at war with Ukraine because it is at war with Nato, which is commanded by the US. Nato has been at the service of US geostrategic interests.
The duration of the war depends on that goal.
During the two world wars of the 20th century, Europe was the self-proclaimed centre of the world. That is why we call the two wars world wars. About four million of Europe’s troops were African and Asian. Many thousands of non-European deaths were the price paid by the inhabitants of remote colonies of the countries involved, sacrificed in a war that did not concern them.
Seeing through non-European lenses, on the other hand, Europe and the US stand haughtily all but alone, probably capable of winning one battle, but on their way to certain defeat in the war of history. More than half of the world’s population lives in countries that have decided not to join the sanctions against Russia.
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