The World Expecting Global Revolution
The arrival of the 21st century has seen the emergence of a new, modern ‘cold war’. This ‘cold war’ could even be called the Third World War because of its large scale and dynamics. This phase of global rivalry is different from antecedent conflicts in that today’s violence is more covert than the violence of yesteryear’s global conflicts. Today’s war is less about open nuclear posturing; we might say that confrontation has shifted to a ‘global underground’ and developed into guerilla-warfare.
The latest developments in global politics have proved that the collapse of the USSR did not end the Cold War or the US-Russia contest for world dominance. The US keeps trying to spread its influence in Russia’s southern and western regions, as well as to strategically important countries in Asia. Meanwhile, Russia maintains a strategic alliance with China, India and Iran, and tends to lure Central Europe into this group.
In this context, we can say that Russia (which ‘openly’ exports nuclear programs to the various corners of the world) and Europe (which always runs counter to the US efforts to forestall the emergence of new nuclear states) are to some extent interested to see many such nuclear states on this earth to foil the US’ aspiration for a unipolar world and to spur the creation of a multi-polar, regionally-based world order.
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