Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :
In the entire imperialist world capitalist system, the most severe and deepest economic recession has fallen and is running towards the great depression since the Second World War. Conflicts between imperialist countries, currency war, spatial-territorial wars are expanding and increasing the danger of the third world war. The most significant partner in the US ‘war on terror’ in the Middle East is the worst terrorist fascist state of Israel. The issue of Israel’s terrorist activities is so well known that no detailed discussion is necessary. The US policy of ‘blockage’ is now an integral part of its terror policy. Through this they are continuing their activities against various democratic states. Apart from military attacks, they are implementing this blockade in countries like Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, North Korea.
The fact is that the US government is launching proxy war or indirectly a terrorist war through many groups in many countries is not unknown in this age of communication. For example, everyone knows about the US government’s role in creating Al Qaeda and the Taliban against the former Soviet Union. The US intelligence agency CIA planned a country wide campaign to use Muslims against Soviet troops. In the light of that plan, the US government provided all kinds of support, including training. The White House has now lost control of the anti-Israeli Arab terrorist groups. It has become difficult for the US government to subdue these giant’s terrorist groups.
With the fall of US imperialism, the leadership of world capitalism will also be lost from its hands. Where it will go to? Will it go to shift in the hands of China?
It is mentioned that, twenty-six thousand people were killed in Hungary to defend the dominance of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. That socialist empire in Eastern Europe did not last. China should learn from Russia’s history and move forward. After the fall of the German dictator Hitler and his fascist army in the Second World War, the world’s nuclear powers were divided into two factions, starting a long Cold War. Basically, the aim of these two parties was to dominate the new world after the World War II – one of which was America with the NATO coalition and the other was Russia with the communist world. The British Empire that once controlled the entire world, the mighty British Raj has become a forgotten history of the world today. The pride of power and the happiness of arrogance do not last long. Neither US imperialism nor Soviet socialism really has a lasting history to be proud of, nor a legacy of glory.
History of imperialism and aggression may repeat by China. Geopolitically, the South China Sea, the hottest area in the world, has raised questions about America’s alliance before. The ‘Scarborough Shoal’ of this sea is 200 km away from the Philippines. China also claims its ownership over three times the distance from the Philippines. In 2012, the two countries went to war after the Philippine Navy intercepted a Chinese fishing vessel in Scarborough Shoal.
A multiple world cannot be decreed, it must be created. Europe lacks the will to establish itself as a second pole capable of balancing America power. Nor would most Europeans want to see multi polarity and global balance created by the rise of super power China or the return of super power Russia. World bodies as well as Europe’s intention is to create actual global multi polarity as to establish the UN Security Council as the sole authority for determining the legitimacy of military action and especially the American action. By investing equal power in the security council French with other two countries tried to induce institutional multi polarity at least in theory to compensate for the lack of genuine multi polarity in the international system. The US should abandon its imperial dreams, swallow its pride and get help.
With the passage of time, many people think that the situation of the war is getting more dangerous. Ukraine believes that Russia has imposed such unreasonable demands on them to rebuild the Soviet Union. Russia is in danger of losing a large market for energy sales in Europe. Besides, Europe itself will face severe energy crisis. Recently, in a consensus meeting in Paris, France, in the presence of representatives of Germany and France, Ukraine and Russia agreed to go to a ceasefire. This news surely brings a message of peace to Europe and the whole world. We have not yet forgotten the horrors of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki attacks. We don’t want any third World war. Let the world be human, going beyond all disputes, doubts, conflicts.
The world peace is threatened by the aggression of imperialist power. Democracy is far in the World. The big power in the name of trade and cultural aggression are trying to establish their dominance over the World. They are trying to launch economic sanction in different world terrain. The world is suffering from aggressive attitude, the superiority complexes in the mindset of the world big power. The growing agitation and tense relationship within the states must be given up – rather mutual cooperation and cohesion must develop by strong diplomacy and bilateral understanding. The aggression or imperialism must be prevented. What role shall be played against the aggression of the world power? The world’s biggest challenge is to face the aggression of the big powers. World War III is on the brink today. The world today has become violent and inhumane. The world must not be a battlefield by the aggression of the big power. No war – let the world be at peace.
(The writer is former Deputy Director General, Bangladesh Ansar and VDP).
