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In a week in which former allies in a redividing globe separately commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, the sense of a runaway descent towards a third world war draws ever closer.
The implosion of Pax Americana, the interconnectedness of conflicts, the new willingness to resort to unbridled state-sponsored violence and the irrelevance of the institutions of the rules-based order have all been on brutal display this week. From Kashmir to Khan Younis, Hodeidah, Port Sudan and Kursk, the only sound is of explosions, and the only lesson is that the old rules no longer apply.
Indeed Fiona Hill, the policy analyst and adviser to the UK government on its imminent strategic defence review, argues the third world war has already started, if only we would recognise it.
Depends on definition. The West is under constant attack by Russia for years now, but not in open war. Look at Putins use of psyops, his support for Brexit, for extremist groups and politicians, his hold on Trump and the way he uses him to destroy the US, with the MAGAs happily clapping and pushing the country down the fashism road.
Putin attacked Ukraine for nor voting his puppet into office, and grooms wannabe dictators wherever he can.
That’s just the Cold War which never actually ended
Let’s give him some credit, he managed to appeal to enough inbred racists to take power in the most powerful nation on the planet by far.
His strategy isn’t without evidentiary backing.