BALANCE AS THE KEY TO WORLD PEACE

This entry opens the subsection on balance, stability, and global security. Paradoxically, we are presently in the section on “wishful thinking,” while the terms pertaining to our subsection appear as solid rational terms which are hardly ever associated with “wishful thinking.” But, of course, the so-called “new world order” is in itself a paradox, being based not on those respectable rational terms, but on the delusional assumption of one superpower’s hegemony, which has effectively substituted them all after the collapse of the USSR.

The American insistence on her single-superpower hegemony in the post-coldwar era has produced a veritable tectonic shift in the groundwork of international relations. A brattish fantasy has become the apparent reality, geopolitical sanity has been reduced to wishful thinking, which is exactly why it is being considered in this section, and what used to be wishful thinking of yore, something like “world peace,” is now deemed an infantile, long-outdated grotesque naïveté among the real-politikers, reduced to a propagandistic ploy by the respective agitprop machines of individual states and groups of states.

Come to think of it, world peace is still more than an ephemeral possibility. The key to world peace, though, is not the hopelessly idealized goodwill of humanity, but a far more practical and perfectly sober concept of balance, as long as it is realized by all sides as the only way to ensure stability, predictability, and common sense in international relations, condemning unilateralism as a surefire guarantee of conflict and war. Need I say that this essential concept of balance is utterly incompatible with the existing insistence on unipolarity that has come to characterize the new “American” twenty-first century, spinning off into global terrorism, reckless political and economic manipulation on an unprecedented scale, and, of course, a truly apocalyptic decline of Western free society, as it was universally recognized, and admired as such, during the cold war era, despite the inevitable slips and setbacks.

To make my point clear, whereas the lowest point of the cold war, America’s war in Vietnam, was a tragic result of certain geopolitical misconceptions, but still an exception, rather than the rule, this American century’s war in Iraq, as well as many other “little” wars and wars to come, have all been wars of inexcusable and self-defeating folly of geopolitical hubris and cluelessness, all of them bit by bit undermining Western civil liberties and the very concept of civil society…

The rest of this subsection will hopefully shed some light on what I call “balance.”