Speaking at , he was generic: “it is not necessary to wait for a new one to promote the transformations that the international order needs”.
Two weeks ago, American journalist George Will was specific in his Washington Post column: “World War III has begun.” Will is a conservative, independent and erudite veteran. He remembers that it began chronologically in September 1939, with the invasion of the Russian Federation, after a “cascade of crises”.
At that time, the country had already occupied Manchuria (1931). Add to this that the Third Reich had already swallowed (March 1938) and a piece of Czechoslovakia (December 1938). It attacked Abyssinia in 1935 and invaded in April 1939.
Will remembers that he annexed Crimea in 2014 and invaded in 2022. For him, American participation in World War II began in 1940, when the Navy patrolled the sea routes of the North Atlantic. The mobilization of those in this Third World War began even before sending a squad of one hundred soldiers to operate an anti-missile defense system. The United States supplies the governments of Ukraine and Israel with information.
After Will’s article, the crisis escalated. The president authorized Ukrainian forces to fire American medium-range missiles at Russian troops on their territory. At the other end, Russian hierarchs speak of the risk of war, and the troops have received a reinforcement of 10,000 North Korean soldiers.
For Will, the cascade of crises spreads across 6 of the planet’s 24 time zones, stretching from Russia’s western border to the seas of , where it tightens. Meanwhile, neither of the two candidates for President of the United States seemed to realize the size of the problem.
For the average American, World War II only began in December 1941, when the Japanese attacked the Pearl Harbor naval base in the Pacific. For the Russians, it began six months earlier, in June, when their German ally invaded the late Soviet Union. They were the tidal waves of a cascade of crises.
Will talks about an axis that brings together Russia, China, and . Talking about China, the late Henry Kissinger wrote, in 2012, that the country and the United States were building a rivalry similar to that of Germany in the early years of the last century. It began in 1914.
The cascade of crises is on the table. Maybe the Third War hasn’t started yet. If it begins, the first years of this decade will be seen in the same way we look at the second half of the 1930s today. All the bad omens do not take into account that, in January, he will assume the Presidency of the United States. George Will was a Republican and, in 2020, voted for Joe Biden. In the last election, he announced that he would vote for .
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