New World Disorder: The Third World War, a possibility that few people outside military and strategic think tanks have taken seriously since the end of the…
Yet as the world changed, with the spread of democracy and the idea that peoples were not subjects but citizens whose wishes must be respected, even Bismarck tried to find a cover for his wars by claiming to be responding to the will of the German people. In 1867, as relations between France and his new North German Confederation worsened, he declared, “If a nation feels its honour has been violated, then this honour has in fact been violated and appropriate action must ensue.
Later, the 1928 Pact of Paris, also known as the Briand-Kellogg Pact, bound its signatories to renounce war as “an instrument of national policy” . The League of Nations and its successor the United Nations were more ambitious attempts still to rid the world of war altogether. And yet we now talk of a third world conflict and witness a war of conquest in Ukraine.Article content
In his speeches over recent years and the long essay he wrote in the summer of 2021, he goes back to the historical state of Kyivan Rus’ — and the conversion of its ruler, his namesake Vladimir, to Christianity at the end of the 10th century — to argue that Ukrainians and Russians are one people and always have been. He also refers to his predecessors Peter the Great and Stalin with regret for the lands that they once controlled and have since been lost.
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