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Here’s What I Learned From Analysing The New Cold War Every Day For Two Years Straight
Here’s What I Learned From Analysing The New Cold War Every Day For Two Years Straight
These five trends are considered to be the most significant grand strategic ones that are expected to have the greatest impact on the global systemic transition across the coming year.
I’m a Moscow-based American political analyst with a PhD. in Political Science from MGIMO, and this is my second yearly review of the New Cold War after I published my first on the one-year anniversary of the special military operation (SMO) here. I’ve been analysing the New Cold War every day since 24 February 2022, beginning at now-defunct OneWorld till mid-2022 and continuing at my Substack to the present. Here’s what I learned from doing this daily for my second year straight:
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* Sino-US Bi-Multipolarity Has Given Way To Tri-Multipolarity
The Sino-US bi-multipolar system that characterized the years before the SMO has since evolved into tri-multipolarity as a result of India’s successful rise as a globally significant Great Power. The emerging world order is now shaped by the interplay between the US-led West’s Golden Billion, the Sino–Russo Entente, and the informally Indian-led Global South within which are several independent Great Powers. With time, the system will reach the stage of complex multipolarity (“multiplexity”), its final form.
* “Fortress Europe” Is The US’ New Project For Containing Russia
The failure of Kiev’s counteroffensive prompted the US to consider backup plans for containing Russia after it became obvious that NATO couldn’t strategically defeat its opponent in Ukraine. Poland’s subordination to Germany after Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s return to power enabled that country to resume its superpower trajectory with US support for accelerating the construction of “Fortress Europe”, which will fulfil this goal while freeing up American forces to redeploy to Asia for containing China.
* Western Military-Industrial Wherewithal Is Weaker Than Expected
Germany won’t become a superpower anytime soon nor will the US more muscularly contain China in the coming future either since Western military-industrial wherewithal is weaker than expected as proven by the counteroffensive’s failure and the inability to replenish lost stocks that were given to Kiev. The New York Times even confirmed last September that Russia is far ahead of NATO in the “race of logistics”/“war of attrition”, which explains why the Ukrainian Conflict began to wind down lately too.
* Any Deliberately Calculated Sino-US Crisis Has Likely Been Delayed
Building upon the last observation, it’s likely that any deliberately calculated Sino-US crisis has been delayed till at least the end of the decade owing to the fact that America’s surprisingly weak military-industrial complex requires time to rearm America, replenish its stockpiles, and arm regional allies. A comparatively minor crisis might occur by miscalculation, perhaps due to the Sino-Filipino dispute, but the US would struggle to manage a major one of its own making, let alone fight a major war right now.
* The Broader Red Sea Region Is The New Global South Flashpoint
The primary route for Euro-Asian trade has been disrupted by the Houthi’s blockade and security remains uncertain even if the aforesaid is lifted due to Somalia assembling a regional coalition – Eritrea, Egypt, and potentially Turkiye and the US – to stop Ethiopia’s plans to open a naval base in Somaliland. The interests of all the key Great Powers – the US, China, the EU, Russia, India – converge in the broader Red Sea Region, which thus makes it the new Global South flashpoint to keep a close eye on.
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These five trends are considered to be the most significant grand strategic ones, though that doesn’t mean that others like those taking place in the Sahel or the acceleration of financial multipolarity processes aren’t important. They’re just the ones that are expected to have the greatest impact on the global systemic transition across the coming year for the reasons that were explained. Hopefully my insight can inspire other analysts to refocus their work and consequently improve the quality thereof.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.
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Chalk Art by David Zinn in Michigan, USA
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The Flag, the Cross and the Station Wagon, by Bill McKibben
Over the years, Bill McKibben has become one of the most influential activists in the climate movement. His new book is “as much memoir as I’m likely to write”, looking back on changes in America over his lifetime. It’s thoughtful, curious, and as that subtitle suggests – ‘A graying American looks back at his suburban boyhood and wonders what the hell happened’ – there’s a wry sense of humour at work here too.
The book comes with three central chapters, covering the topics promised in the title. First up is the flag, reflecting on American patriotism and the country’s sense of itself. This is very much based in Lexington, where McKibben grew up, and a place that features prominently in America’s founding stories. McKibben is well versed in these local stories, having served as a guide to tourists in his youth, and sees himself as a patriot. It’s a shame to cede the flag to the right, he argues – though America needs an honest reckoning with its history.
The book probes those founding stories, sifting truth and myth, pointing out bits of the story that are usually left out. It moves forward into Lexington’s history, using it as a case study for how the country’s wealthiest areas have resisted affordable housing and maintained a privileged – and white – exclusivity. (Lexington is 1.3% black and has got less diverse over recent decades.) The founding stories of farmers standing up to empire ring a little hollow in a country that has gone on to be so unequal, he argues – but those stories should still inspire. It is something to live up to. “The affluent American suburb may be the greatest wealth accumulation engine of all time”, McKibben writes. “But you had to be able to buy a ticket at the start.”
“I’m going to try something in this chapter that I’m not sure I can pull off,” writes the typically modest McKibben at the start of chapter two, “which is to come to grips with what happened to American Christianity in my lifetime.” Again using Lexington as a starting point, he goes on to detail the decline of ‘mainline’ protestantism and the rise of evangelicalism, it’s co-opting by the Republic party, a turn from the common good towards individualism. He points out that when religion gets instutionalised, it loses its radical edge. It becomes about continuity rather than transformation, and Christianity has always operated most powerfully as part of the counterculture.
As with patriotism, McKibben writes about his disappointment with the failings of the church without giving up on it, something that resonates for me and my own faith. “Those of us raised in this tradition might consider recommitting,” he concludes, “but to a creed more radical than we once imagined, in the hope that it could help with all the other fights that face us.”
Third, the book turns to the suburbs. In the second half of the last century, suburbs came to define American life – with ever larger homes, cars and household possessions. Along the way, public goods eroded in favour of private wealth. A sense of community dwindled too, as people lived further apart and drove everywhere. “Extraordinary wealth accumulated in those places and in that generation, but it wasn’t used to build a better country.”
The other thing that accumulated was carbon emissions in the atmosphere. By 1970 Americans used a third of the world’s energy, and when the energy crisis of the 1970s offered a moment to change direction, it was buried by the Reagan administration. The genuine possibility of a solar future and a postgrowth economy were snuffed out. McKibben writes about his own despair at this missed turning point as a young journalist, and how it shaped his own choices, running to catch up as the climate changed and the American way of life grew stubbornly more destructive. “It’s been a long four decades,” he practically sighs onto the page.
After surveying the injustice and missed opportunities of all of this, what now? “We piled up an almost unimaginable carbon debt”, while failing to redress the inequalities of American society. Who should pay these debts, the book asks, before offering a concluding chapter with a simple title: ‘people of a certain age’.
I mentioned McKibben’s new(ish) charity, Third Act, last week, and the book ends with the possibility that the generation that lived through this story might want to write a different ending. “If you’re sixty”, he points out, “82 percent of the world’s fossil fuel emissions have occurred in your lifetime.” People can pretend climate change and injustice don’t exist, or work to take care of their immediate family and neighbours. Or they can “rise to the political moment” and play a role in fixing the future. Gently letting go of a destructive way of life, ushering in something new. “This kind of redemption rests not on suppressing the truth of our past, but on engaging and overcoming it.”
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Mexican-US Ties Are Deteriorating Due To Drug Indictments And Leaked Spy Reports
Mexican-US Ties Are Deteriorating Due To Drug Indictments And Leaked Spy Reports
In the face of Mexico’s inability to stop cartel-connected threats from spilling over its northern border, it makes perfect sense why the US would unilaterally infiltrate some of those infamous groups and spy on their communications. At the same time, however, this is indisputably a violation of Mexico’s sovereignty. Moreover, the US’ eavesdropping on the Mexican Armed Forces is an unfriendly action which shows how little the Pentagon trusts its counterparts.
The aftermath of last month’s abduction of four US citizens in Mexico led to the conclusion that “It’s Unlikely That The US & Mexico Will Ever Meaningfully Cooperate Against The Cartels”, hence why the US is taking unilateral action against them as proven by the latest drug indictments. The Department of Justice announced charges against leading cartel figures last week in a press release that also boasted about how “the DEA proactively infiltrated the Sinaloa Cartel and the Chapitos network”.
That particular disclosure prompted a furious reaction from Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who’s popularly known by his initials as AMLO. He accused the US of “abusive interference”, condemned the presence of its “agents” in his country, and promised that there’ll never be any “submission” on his country’s part to its northern neighbor. At the same press conference, AMLO also lashed out at the latest Pentagon leaks about Mexico that were reported on several days prior.
The Washington Post informed their audience that not only was the US spying on the same cartel that abducted four of its citizens last month, but that it’s also eavesdropping on the Mexican military after one of the documents claimed that there are tensions between its Army and Navy over the Drug War. In response, AMLO accused the US of “espionage” and vowed to “safeguard information” from its Armed Forces. Quite clearly, Mexican-US relations have deteriorated in recent days due to these developments.
As was noted in the analysis that was hyperlinked to in the introduction, each country has legitimate interests, particularly with respect to ensuring their security from the interconnected unconventional threats posed by cartels, drugs, human trafficking, and violent crime. In the face of Mexico’s inability to stop the aforesaid from spilling over its northern border, it makes perfect sense why the US would unilaterally infiltrate some of those infamous groups and spy on their communications.
At the same time, however, this is indisputably a violation of Mexico’s sovereignty. Moreover, the US’ eavesdropping on the Mexican Armed Forces is an unfriendly action which shows how little the Pentagon trusts its counterparts. To be sure, Mexico probably has secret agents embedded in the US branches of its national cartels and is likely also spying on it far beyond that or at least attempting to, but its related operations almost certainly pale in comparison to the US’.
AMLO’s sharp criticism of the US’ interference in his country’s domestic affairs shows that he’s had enough of its meddling even if Mexico is unable to stop it. The power asymmetry between these two keeps his tangible reaction to all of this in check since he knows that there’s a risk of severe punishment if he crosses his neighbor’s “red lines”. Nevertheless, the optics are still worth analyzing because there’s no doubt that he’s making a public display of standing up to the US.
This will likely lead to part of the population rallying around him for patriotic reasons even if they dislike some of his domestic policies while having the opposite effect when it comes to Americans feeling increasingly uncomfortable with everything that’s going on in Mexico nowadays. The cartel-facilitated fentanyl crisis affects millions of people either directly with respect to them having someone close who’s overdosed from it and/or indirectly in terms of addicts driving local crime waves.
The more that AMLO condemns US law enforcement’s infiltration of the cartels and the Pentagon’s espionage operations against them, the more that Americans will begin to consider him a threat, thus potentially galvanizing public opinion in the direction of the same punitive measures he seeks to avert. The Republicans are already talking about designating cartels as terrorists and even speculating about cross-border strikes so this issue is expected to become a national one ahead of next year’s elections.
The aforementioned rhetoric will in turn accelerate the spread of patriotic sentiment in Mexico, with these dynamics contributing to each society viewing the other with maximum suspicion and as pressing national security threats, thus risking the emergence of a “security dilemma”. Should this concept come to characterize their bilateral ties, then the danger exists that the US might feel pressured by public opinion into unilaterally ordering some sort of action (even if mostly symbolic) against Mexico.
With or without this happening, public opinion in Mexico might pressure the government into doing something against the US too, even if this is (also?) mostly symbolic. In practice, it could flirt with comprehensively expanding economic ties with its Chinese rival exactly as Brazil’s Lula has sought to do as part of his envisaged “balancing” act between those two, however clumsily it’s ultimately executed. Mexico is right next to the US, however, so this could inadvertently provoke a major overreaction from it.
While the scenarios that were briefly described in the preceding two paragraphs remain speculative for the time being, there’s no denying that they’ll become increasingly possible the longer that Mexican-US tensions persist, especially if their bilateral ties come to be characterized by a “security dilemma”. This trend could eventually have serous strategic consequences in the New Cold War if it spirals out of control, which is why observers should keep a close eye on everything going forward.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.
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Guerra in Ucraina: le ragioni e le soluzioni secondo Noam Chomsky
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- Perché l’Ucraina?
- Ruolo dell’Europa e della NATO nella guerra in Ucraina
- Putin nella guerra in Ucraina
- Guerra evitabile e soluzioni per la pace
- La politica di Biden con la Cina ed il rischio di un’altra guerra
- L’Europa è decisiva sia con la Russia che con la Cina
Traduzione a cura di Valentina Nicolì e Vincenzo Ostuni. Premessa di Valentina Nicolì.
La guerra in Ucraina sembra essere nata dal nulla, viene raccontata dai media in tempo reale ma non è permesso spiegarne la complessità delle ragioni storiche. Noam Chomsky lo fa egregiamente in questo libro senza cercare giustificazioni o attenuanti per il crimine di guerra che rappresenta l’invasione intrapresa da Putin.
Perché l’Ucraina?
Perché l’Ucraina è un libro straordinario per diverse ragioni. Innanzitutto il libro è la raccolta di sette interviste a Noam Chomsky, quasi tutte realizzate tra il febbraio e la fine di marzo del 2022. Perché l’Ucraina è il punto di vista di un grande pensatore su temi attualissimi, realizzato in tempo reale. Dall’ultima intervista (24 marzo) alla pubblicazione (21 aprile) è passato meno di un mese.
In secondo luogo Noam Chomsky è uno dei massimi esperti sul ruolo dei media in occidente ed uno dei maggiori critici della politica estera statunitense. Il suo è un pensiero lucidissimo, nonostante i suoi 93 anni, ed utilissimo a comprendere il ruolo degli Stati Uniti nella guerra russo-ucraina. Chomsky si definisce anarchico.
Le interviste che vanno a comporre questo libro, uscito in italiano in anteprima mondiale, sono sette. La prima intervista è di Valentina Nicolì realizzata nel dicembre 2018. Le altre sei interviste sono realizzate da C.J. Plychroniou per la rivista indipendente Truthout, dal 4 di febbraio, periodo precedente all’invasione russa, al 24 marzo 2022 e ci portano gradualmente dentro la guerra in Ucraina.
Ruolo dell’Europa e della NATO nella guerra in Ucraina
L’intervista del 2018 di Valentina Nicolì riguarda il ruolo dell’Europa e della Nato. Chomsky ripercorre la storia dell’Europa dal secondo dopoguerra ad oggi passando per De Gaulle, Willy Brandt e Gorbačëv. L’accordo che si raggiunse per l’unificazione della Germania prevedeva che la NATO non si espandesse verso Est. Era l’unica ragione per cui l’Unione Sovietica potesse fare questa concessione alla Germania divisa.
L’allargamento della NATO fino ai confini russi
Gli accordi furono mantenuti fino al 2008 quando Bill Clinton allargò la Nato fino ai confini con la Russia. Con Bush e Obama ci furono anche degli inviti all’Ucraina ad entrare nella NATO. Secondo Chomsky la NATO è consapevole che l’Ucraina non farà mai parte dell’alleanza militare atlantica. Neanche dopo un’eventuale vittoria nella guerra russo-ucraina. La Russia non lo accetterebbe mai.
Il ruolo della Nato
Secondo Chomsky la NATO non avrebbe più senso di esistere, come alleanza militare, dopo la fine dell’Unione Sovietica. Chomsky riporta il pensiero dello storico inglese Richard Sakwa, professore di Politica europea e russa all’Università del Kent, secondo cui la Nato si giustifica col bisogno di gestire le minacce provocate dal suo allargamento.
In questo modo la NATO si è trasformata in un’alleanza che ha lo scopo di controllare le risorse energetiche mondiali ed è funzionale come supporto agli Stati Uniti nelle diverse operazioni speciali e missioni di pace occidentali.
Europa indipendente dalla NATO
Il più grande regalo che Putin ha fatto agli Stati Uniti con la guerra in Ucraina è stato quello di compattare gli stati europei nella NATO e di rafforzare l’egemonia statunitense nell’alleanza atlantica. Un’Europa indipendente dalla Nato, forza terza rispetto agli altri blocchi era il sogno di De Gaulle. Ma anche l’aspirazione di Michail Gorbačëv (Gorbaciov) che immaginava un sistema di sicurezza europeo che comprendesse la Russia.
Gli Stati Uniti hanno sempre osteggiato un’emancipazione europea dall’egemonia americana che spinge l’Europa verso un’economia caratterizzata da un capitalismo estremo. Chomsky ricorda il caso del Cile del 1973 quando gli Stati Uniti insediarono il dittatore Pinochet e uccisero il presidente Allende. Lo scopo, secondo Kissinger, era quello di eliminare quell’esperienza di riforme sociali che poteva diventare un modello per Italia e Spagna.
Eppure un precedente dell’affrancamento potrebbe essere costituito oggi dall’iniziativa diplomatica di alcuni leader europei, Macron in particolare, per la ricerca di una soluzione che getti le basi per la pace tra Ucraina e Russia.
Putin nella guerra in Ucraina
La posizione della Russia è molto chiara. Putin non può accettare che Georgia e Ucraina entrino nella NATO, che ospitino esercitazioni militari NATO e vengano militarizzate dalla NATO. Se succedesse qualcosa del genere in Messico con forze armate russe o cinesi, sarebbe ugualmente inaccettabile per gli Stati Uniti.
Crimini di guerra e nazisti
Chomsky dichiara, senza nessuna ambiguità, che l’invasione russa dell’Ucraina è un crimine di guerra. Come l’invasione statunitense dell’Iraq e come l’invasione tedesca di Hitler della Polonia. Un crimine per il quale i gerarchi nazisti sono stati condannati all’impiccagione al Processo di Norimberga.
Guerra evitabile e soluzioni per la pace
La guerra, secondo Chomsky, era evitabile. Le condizioni che porteranno alla fine della guerra ed alla pace saranno le stesse che se realizzate prima, la guerra avrebbero potuto evitarla. A Putin non ci si deve arrendere e non bisogna concedere tutto. Ma le condizioni che si devono accettare a guerra in corso sono sicuramente peggiori di quelle che potevano cercarsi prima.
Tra le condizioni di pace ci saranno l’attuazione dei protocolli di Minsk che riconoscano una forma di autonomia per le repubbliche del Donbass all’interno di un’organizzazione federalista dell’Ucraina. Sistema federalista simile a quello statunitense. La smilitarizzazione e la neutralità dell’Ucraina sono parte essenziale delle condizioni.
Escalation: la guerra nucleare e la terza guerra mondiale
Non ci si deve arrendere ma bisogna concedere a Putin una via di fuga che gli permetta di uscire dalla guerra non completamente umiliato. La Russia è il paese con il maggior numero di testate nucleari ed una escalation della guerra sarebbe disastrosa e non avrebbe vincitori. Se vogliamo evitare la terza guerra mondiale o una guerra nucleare una soluzione, un compromesso va cercato. E non va cercato molto lontano da quelli che erano gli accordi di Minsk.
La politica di Biden con la Cina ed il rischio di un’altra guerra
Le sanzioni alla Russia hanno l’effetto di avvicinare la Russia alla Cina e di favorire, invece, gli Stati Uniti come fornitore di petrolio per i paesi europei. Nei confronti della Cina, inoltre, Biden sta portando avanti una politica di accerchiamento militare, simile a quello della Nato nei confronti della Russia.
Le ultime leggi di Biden in materia economica (National Defense Authorization Act del 27 dicembre 2021) hanno riservato, infatti, notevoli finanziamenti per l’acquisto di navi ed aerei e per la Pacific Deterrence Initiative per la difesa di Taiwan.
Chomsky ci invita a chiederci come si sentirebbe la Cina nel momento in cui gli Stati uniti raddoppiano la spesa per l’anno 2022 per l’installazione di missili ad alta precisione lungo la prima catene di isole (Giappone, Taiwan e Filippine).
L’Europa è decisiva sia con la Russia che con la Cina
Il ruolo dell’Europa è fondamentale in questo scenario internazionale. Se i paesi europei smettessero di accettare qualsiasi strategia militare e politica statunitense, avrebbero i requisiti per rappresentare una terza forza, di avere una propria politica internazionale e forse di scoraggiare i presidenti statunitensi da giochi pericolosi, sfruttando supremazia militare americana.
Inoltre, un affrancamento dell’Europa dagli Stati Uniti e dalla Nato libererebbe i paesi europei da quella morsa che li costringe a perseguire politiche economiche ispirate ad un estremo capitalismo neoliberista a favore, invece, di una socialdemocrazia con uno stato sociale che garantisca a lavoratori e fasce più deboli diritti essenziali e assistenza.
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Sculpture dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Transatlantic slave trade at the entrance of the National Memorial for Peace And Justice
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