The global scene is heralding an unprecedented struggle for influence; wars are no longer an exception, but have become a means of rearranging power balances. Weak entities are used as testing grounds, not as active actors.
What Washington and major capitals have planned is the management of chaos, not its resolution. This means that the period of relative stability in the Arab-Islamic world has come to an end, and that we are entering an era in which we will be chess pieces moved by great powers according to their national calculations:
– Conflicts are left unresolved
– Internal divisions are exploited
– Proxy wars are employed to weaken adversaries at minimal direct cost
We see what the United Arab Emirates is doing in the Horn of Africa, its blatant involvement in Sudan, and how it has confiscated the fate of an entire people in the name of expanding its influence in a country and a strategically vital region. We also observe the dubious Russian role in the Sahel, and how its war in Ukraine has pushed it to seek outlets beyond its traditional geostrategic sphere, through cooperation agreements and security arrangements with Sahelian states that have yet to experience genuine independence.
We likewise follow the preparations of the Zionists to declare war on Iran, after expanding across their surrounding geographical space without encountering any force capable of stopping them. The language of the great powers is one and the same: submission to their agendas, with no right for us to say “no,” otherwise the price will be heavy.
What has encouraged Washington, Moscow, and Beijing to pursue this course is the state of stagnation, inertia, division, and underdevelopment from which we suffer—conditions we have not confronted with radical solutions, but rather with patchwork fixes that provide no real immunity against the economic, political, and military interventions of the powerful.
Thus, a diplomacy of principles is of no use in a world that believes in imposing power through coercion, at a time when environmental risks are increasing, energy resources are declining, the pace of scientific and technological advancement is accelerating, and the gap between the class of influential wealthy elites and the marginalized classes is steadily widening.
