As the world has shifted from unipolarity to multipolarity, the security architecture must also change to ensure peace. From Europe to the Middle East and East Asia, existing security architectures are collapsing, and new arrangements are needed to prevent great-power wars that could destroy humanity. The problem is that new security architectures have historically been established only after major wars that have shattered the previous status quo.
I was asked to speak about how the Gaza genocide fits into the changes now taking place in the Western-led international order. To address that question, I will examine how the genocide in Gaza has affected—and will continue to affect—America’s image of itself as a morally righteous nation, as well as its implications for international law, which the United States, of course, played a key role in creating.
The impact on people who live under dictators propped up by Britain is immense. British voters have almost no say in what’s going on.
The U.S. economic pressure campaign raises risks of major escalation.
US National Interests Ignored Thanks to Foreign Bribes
Why the world peace depends on small counties’ not taking sides?
The US Vice-President JD Vance’s famous statement within hours of the midterm results that “the reason we lost is the Iran war” may appear to be a calibrated distancing from President Donald Trump. Indeed, he alluded to Trump: “If you’d like to argue it [Iran war] was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree. That’s at least honest.”
The global food crisis is starting to hit home in a major way. Images of starving children on the other side of the planet don’t move people emotionally the way that they did in the 1980s and 1990s. Many people simply don’t care. But now hunger is spreading like wildfire in the United States and Canada. If you can still afford to eat three meals a day on a consistent basis, you should be very grateful because 27 percent of Americans can’t. Those that are wealthy have a really difficult time understanding how soul crushing it can be to not have enough money for food. There are millions upon millions of people in the United States that are regularly going hungry, and that is one of the reasons why there is so much anger and frustration in our society right now.
