The rules-based world order is in retreat and violence is on the rise, forcing countries to rethink their relationships

In a week in which former allies in a redividing globe separately commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, the sense of a runaway descent towards a third world war draws ever closer.

The implosion of Pax Americana, the interconnectedness of conflicts, the new willingness to resort to unbridled state-sponsored violence and the irrelevance of the institutions of the rules-based order have all been on brutal display this week. From Kashmir to Khan Younis, Hodeidah, Port Sudan and Kursk, the only sound is of explosions, and the only lesson is that the old rules no longer apply.

Indeed Fiona Hill, the policy analyst and adviser to the UK government on its imminent strategic defence review, argues the third world war has already started, if only we would recognise it.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    There was no period without warfare or economic stability in Palestine.

    I mean… there was time to build a bunch of modern residential buildings, hospitals and businesses (the things Israel is currently blowing up and bulldozing) and for people to live their lives without having to be armed 24/7. It literally has not been open warfare (at least for a little while), and yes there was some economic stability, enough for local Palestinian businesses to develop, for a semi-functional civilian government to form, and for civil services like hospitals and schools to be established. It hasn’t just been a warzone for 100 years.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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      4 hours ago

      there was time to build a bunch of modern residential buildings, hospitals and businesses (the things Israel is currently blowing up and bulldozing) and for people to live their lives without having to be armed 24/7.

      I don’t know about the businesses, but as for everything else I’m pretty sure that stuff is built via humanitarian aid.

      It literally has not been open warfare (at least for a little while

      The last time there was open warfare was in 2021, and before that in 2014, 2012 and 2008, with each war causing widespread humanitarian and economic devastation worth billions of dollars.

      for a semi-functional civilian government to form

      All inherited from the pre-Hamas era. Until 2007 Gaza was governed like the West Bank is now as a result of the Oslo accords.

      and for civil services like hospitals and schools to be established.

      Mostly built by the international community or inherited from before 2007.

      It hasn’t just been a warzone for 100 years.

      Yes, only for 25.