In a world dwarfed by globalization, it would seem that we all need to be much more aware of political and strategic moves which can have serious consequences. But globalism seems to be blurring our vision more than not making it clear. When Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014, it was not given the importance it had geostrategically.
Russia gained for the first time in many years the possibility of breaking up European space and regain lost influence throughout the eastern and northern part of the continent. Vladimir Putin is another nationalist politician in our era of populism: the history of the Soviet Union uses it to reclaim the great Russia. It took years and a lot of effort for Moscow to wear out and divide opponents. But it undoubtedly took steps to weaken Europe and become stronger in the areas that were under Soviet influence during the Cold War. The ghost of Russian interference – especially in cyberspace – it was constant and increasingly tangible in all political events.
Trump’s American First was first time The United States renounced to be the hegemonic power world and decides to dedicate himself to himself or to nationalism. In the Aukus operation, the new president Joe Biden, from a different point of view, insisted on the message that the United States no longer rules the world, but Compete on the global stage to become stronger. Added to this was an increasingly stronger China in the capitalist world and in confrontation with the United States. Finally, the weak position of the European Union without the United Kingdom is even more so, as it suffers from gauthoritarian governments such as those of Hungary and Poland, in addition to different currents of populism within it. This scenario led to Vladimir Putin having an openly hostile attitude towards Europe and especially Ukraine.
Ukraine would be just the beginning. This is what it is clear to listen to the Russian representatives, They reiterate that they will not stop until they return to the former zone of influence that the Soviet Union had in the Iron Curtain.
Thomas Piketty warned our democratic systems are weaker than ever since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989. Thus, the defense of the rights and freedoms of Western liberal democracies must be demanded more than ever.
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The European Union was the fruit of the need of many to heal deep wounds that World War II left our continent, to understand that either we rose together or no one rose. We must read this crisis in the same terms: the European Union must be more united than ever in the new challenges. Besides having to repeat, in record time, the bonds of trust and union of the Alliance and with Washington. Without the common shield of NATO, European countries would be weakened. At the same time, the United States is also much weaker without the European Union.
The firmness in the dialogue and the diplomacy of the European Union must be total, also that of defending the granted freedoms. Expansionist and nostalgic Soviet alliances must be taken very seriously. The European goal must be to tackle the situation before it becomes truly irreversible. In this era of nationalism and populism exalted it is necessary, more than ever, to regain the most important political thought: the freedom of the people is their own right and it is always illegal to change it, and that freedom can only be guaranteed by respected laws, and no cause justifies an action contrary to that fundamental fact.
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