4/19/2023 0 Comments Will there be a world war 3![]() ![]() The Balkans War in the 1990s upended the former Yugoslavia, redrawing the map of Europe. In the same year the Berlin Wall came down, Deng Xiaoping ordered China's People's Liberation Army to open fire on their own people protesting in Tiananmen Square. It triggered a global realignment, bottled up tension overflowed. We could date the Third World War from the end of the Cold War. When did this "slow motion" global war begin? With Osama bin Laden's 9-11 terrorist attacks on the US in 2001? Perhaps Putin's invasion of Georgia in 2008, or the annexation of Crimea in 2014? Simon Reich from Rutgers University says: "We may have been entering a new form of global war for the last three decades - in slow motion." They also turned away from the West, each iteration of Islamist militancy from the Muslim Brotherhood to Islamic State turning more radical and violent. Not unlike Chinese thinkers who looked inward after the end of the Qing Empire and the 19th century Opium Wars, Islamist groups sought to renew Islam's lost glory. ![]() The collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I triggered a dark night of the soul for the Muslim world. Islamist militancy, too, emerges from the perceived humiliations of the 20th century. The focus on Ukraine obscures a history of conflict elsewhere His ideas of Russian identity are tied deeply to a sense of military glory. Putin believes Russia's war time sacrifice and victory against Hitler's advancing army is not properly recognised. Xi and Russia's Vladimir Putin are formed out of the wars of the 20th century.
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