by Kudakwashe Kanhutu
Sometimes when I am losing badly at Chess, I just make a nuisance check which has no chance of even changing the dynamic of the game. I thought of this parallel as soon as I heard that Ukraine had counter-invaded a Russian Federation border region.
The major difference is that, there is no wasteful loss of life in my nuisance checks in my Chess games!
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| The Russian Federation is one of the few countries Israel cannot emotionally blackmail - Russia lost 27 Million of its people while freeing Europe from Adolf Hitler. The Red Army liberated Auschwitz during the Vistula - Oder Offensive. |
by Kudakwashe Kanhutu
From assassinating Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossen Amir-Abdollahian on 19th May, and Ismail Haniyeh on 31st July, the blowing up of the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, to arming Ukraine with advanced weapons, the West and its proxies have shown they hold an even higher disregard for the unwritten and written rules than even I thought they did.
Writing in Postil Magazine, the famed Russian Philosopher - Alexander Dugin - suggests that the Global South should now militarily respond to these military provocations by the West and its proxies. I have conceptualised this as accepting the standing invitation to World War III long extended by the West. For, make no mistake, to respond in kind to the West's provocations so far, should plunge the World into World War III.
Dugin decries all the impunity that countries like Israel and the United States have enjoyed in committing crimes in Palestine and elsewhere. While he concedes that there is wisdom in viewing provocations with a cool head, he thinks that this has gone on for far too long and that a response is now required;
"It is important, of course, not to be provoked. But if you are being cynically annihilated in front of everyone’s eyes, and you persistently “do not give in and do not give in to provocations,” it looks strange. As if you yourself encourage maniacs to keep doing the same to you."
He drives the point home that the New World Order can only be built by the winners of the current conflagration - World War III in my view;
"No, by acting in this way, we are neither laying the foundations of a new world order nor supporting the existing one. To participate in the layout of the new world, one must first win. The weak and the losers have no right to play a role in defining the parameters of the future."
What Dugin says in his Postil opinion piece is very valid and should be considered by the Global South. I just do not see how this will not lead to World War III. I am just glad that this difficult decision is not mine to make... for now.
