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One after another, the dykes of international order collapse, and the law of the strongest, which comes in its place, gives rise to chaos and anarchy, crises and violence to which the Western world is not accustomed.
This is what political analyst Isabel Lasser wrote in an analysis for the French daily Le Figaro, News.bg reported.
To the east, huge Russia is trying to absorb its neighbor, whose independence it had recognized and had even become a guarantor of its security.
In the Caucasus, Azerbaijan expelled Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh through ethnic cleansing.
In the Middle East, Hamas is using ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) methods to kill Jews for being Jews.
In all cases, civilians are the privileged victims of brutal attacks, torture, war crimes or crimes against humanity.
And the list is far from exhaustive.
Hezbollah, Iran’s armed wing, threatens to regionalize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and draw Lebanon into the war.
An Israeli military response, if not accompanied by a political solution, risks inflaming the Arab world.
In the Pacific, China says it will use all means, including force, to topple democracy in Taiwan and return the island to the fold of communist dictatorship.
Not to mention the Western Balkans, especially Kosovo and Bosnia, where built-up tensions threaten to degenerate.
“Clash of Civilizations”
In 2005, in a brilliant book of his, the philosopher Thérèse Delpeche already announced this “wilding” of the world. A few years earlier, in 1996, the American political scientist Samuel Huntington announced in a book that sparked a debate at the time, the “clash of civilizations”.
Both were right before anyone else.
Civilizational conflicts pit Israel and its Western allies against the Muslim world, Ukraine and its Western allies against imperialist Russia, the “global South” against the “global North,” dictatorships and autocracies against democracies.
And wherever barbarism occurs, impulses for domination and violence are expressed without restraint and without concealment, power politics shattering all the values that have held the Western world together since World War II.
The disappearance of the American gendarme under the cumulative effect of its Asian center and its desire to withdraw from world affairs, as well as the parallel assertion by force of emerging powers rushing headlong into the unknown and demanding their share of power, led to the deconstruction of international system and turned the world into a jungle.
American power, which has dominated the world since 1945, has often been criticized.
It made mistakes like the 2003 Iraq war and suffered setbacks like the military intervention in Afghanistan.
Moreover, it has undoubtedly shown too little interest in the countries of the South, which it feels have been ignored by Western selfishness and its practice of “double standards”.
But there were rules, and they helped keep the world in balance, even if it was imperfect. The Cold War pitted two antagonistic blocs against each other, but while maintaining some stability.
The return of the yellow stars
Today, force has replaced international law, and its unrestricted use has trivialized evil in many parts of the world.
The UN is paralyzed and marginalized.
The OSCE, whose mission was to promote security and cooperation in Europe, is in a coma.
Everywhere, democracies are in decline and the values that the West thought were universal are no longer universal.
The institutions and rules that were put in place to try to stop extreme violence have collapsed.
All safety belts and safety ropes have become inoperable, including international arms control treaties. And “wilding” as the “clash of civilizations” also reaches the interior of Western societies.
In Washington, Trump supporters organized the 2021 attack on the Capitol.
In France, teachers are killed for teaching secularism in school.
In London, pro-Palestinian demonstrators call for the killing of Jews.
In the great Western capitals, although we thought those times were gone forever, we see the stars of David springing up again on the walls of some houses.
Illusions about the end of history
If the Western world is seized with such astonishment in the face of this acceleration of cruel crises, it is because it was weaned from the situation of war.
After the fall of the USSR and communism, Europe unreservedly embraced the illusions of the end of history and eternal peace on the continent.
She mistakenly believed that democracy and a market economy would make it impossible for war to return and the great massacres of the 20th century to be repeated.
She believed in the virtuous effect of law, the market and democracy on the rest of the world.
Locked in its security, the Western family saw neither the war in Ukraine nor the war in Israel.
He did not realize that the peace brought about by the law was now a thing of the past, and that the guns had long ago returned to his neighborhood. Today, it risks being dragged against its will into that chain of violence that Vladimir Putin announced at the Valdai Forum in 2014, confirming that conflicts involving the great powers directly or indirectly will multiply and that the war in Ukraine will not is the last one.
In this world gone wild, authoritarian regimes currently take precedence over democracies and their open and, in the European case, often disarmed societies.
However, however turbulent the world may be and in the process of being reorganized under the influence of the tectonic plate movements of geopolitics, however heinous the crimes committed by the Russians in Bucha or by Hamas in the Israeli kibbutzim, they fortunately have nothing to do with the victims of the disasters of the 20th century: almost two million deaths (20% of the population) in the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, 800,000 deaths, mostly Tutsi, in the Rwandan genocide, 60 to 80 million deaths in during World War II, 5 to 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust, 30 to 40 million deaths during Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” in China…
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2023-11-07 14:51:00
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