WWIII Has Begun: Top Russian Intellectual Says
The Trends Journal has said for over a year that the Ukraine War is not a proxy fight between the U.S. and Russia
The Trends Journal magazine has said for over a year that the Ukraine War is not a proxy battle between the U.S. and Russia, but rather a direct war that has evolved into WWIII, with countries like Iran and China sitting on the sidelines.
With Israel’s “Holy War” in Gaza — which is nothing more than a wholesale genocide — there is hardly an argument to be made that these two conflicts are “regional.”
Fyodor Lukyanov, who was identified by RT, the Russian news outlet, as the country’s leading foreign policy expert, said the conflicts are nothing more than an attempt by Europe and the U.S. to keep their control over the global majority.
He said the accepted world order is no longer manageable and we’re seeing the results unfold in these wars. He called the old order “unpleasant” but “based on the fear of mutual destruction, but manageable.”
“We instinctively expect that the war will begin just like the Great War or the [WWII]. But such wars probably won’t happen anymore – after all, there are nuclear weapons, which are still holding back many,” he said.
He said there also seems to be no mechanism in the West to put an end to conflicts once they break out.
“Wars in the Middle East have erupted before, but the USSR and the USA intervened and extinguished them until the next conflict. And now I don’t see even a temporary settlement mechanism,” he said.
Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin met Xi Jinping, his Chinese counterpart, in China last week and the two expressed interest in building their no-limits partnership and their visions for a “multipolar world” not led by any one country.
The meeting occurred while U.S. President Joe Biden was visiting Israel. Xi did not mention the Middle East conflict, but Putin said “shared threats” only bring China and Russia closer.
Xi gave the opening speech at the international conference in Beijing and said his country is opposed to “ideological confrontation, geopolitical rivalry, and bloc politics,” according to the paper. He also said he is opposed to the idea of unilateral sanctions and other forms of economic coercion, like “decoupling.”
TRENDPOST: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a speech in September at Washington D.C.’s Johns Hopkins University and told the audience what everyone seems to already know: the post-Cold War World Order has come to an end, and will give way to a fight-to-the-death among superpowers.
Blinken looked back and said the end of the Cold War ushered in a time of “relative geopolitical stability,” but Washington is facing “intensifying competition with authoritarian powers,” namely Russia and China.
“One era is ending, a new one is beginning, and the decisions that we make now will shape the future,” he said.