The Western Schizophrenia

2024 saw a decisive “qualitative leap” in the warlike tones used by European and, generally,…

VT Foreign Policy

By Claudio Resta

2024 saw a decisive “qualitative leap” in the warlike tones used by European and, generally, Western institutions.

Threats and declarations that were unimaginable until recently have gradually become reality, in an alarming crescendo that seems to confirm the worst forebodings about our future.

In fact, if French President Macron has begun to fear the direct sending of troops to Ukraine, from across the Channel Patrick Sanders, head of the British army, openly declares that the world is on the threshold of a new great war and that, consequently, there is the need to train citizens and prepare them for battle.

From the buildings of Brussels, the EU leaders are getting louder and, inviting European states to prepare for war, asking to turbocharge the war industry and “produce weapons like vaccines”.

It seems that the direction desired by Western leaders is to prepare their countries to face a new large-scale conflict against those who oppose, willy-nilly, the plans and hegemony of imperialism.

This pre-war scenario began to take concrete shape in the fateful February 2022 when Russia, entering directly onto Ukrainian soil (on which NATO has had its clutches since 2014, the year of the “Euromaidan” coup), struck a historic blow to the West, undermining its image of absolute master of the world, an image already weakened by a whole series of errors and failures.

Now the Middle Eastern developments that began after 7 October, partly favored by the reverberations of the shock given by Russia and by the resulting enthusiasm of the oppressed nations, galvanized “by the Special Military Operation”, have only widened the scope of the conflict and the gravity of the times.

The issues, little by little, begin to come to a head in all their drama.

The geopolitical clashes, social tensions, national issues, the rise of the multipolar world and, above all, the very serious crisis that is at the basis of the global economic system merge into an explosive mixture that can no longer be ignored or dribbled away as it has been instead done, more or less, until now…