Third world war?

WRITTEN BY MARCELO COLUSSI

The war drums sound threatening. Is it true that going to a Third World War?

In a sense, the Cold War was now finished, in fact, a world war: the two powers representatives of the prevailing systems (the United States and the Soviet Union) put weapons; many countries then called Third World, the dead. The confrontation undoubtedly was global. Strictly speaking: it was a world war.

Since World War II ended in 1945, which involved a trail of about 60 million deaths, the number of casualties in all the wars that have been 'And still - after that date, handily exceeds that figure. Definitely the war has been the constant in these past decades.

The statement that "there is no world wars" has a eurocéntica load (in the sense of "formulation from the capitalist powers of the West", Europe and the United States, including perhaps Japan): no war between these countries, This does not mean that wars do not remain a sad reality in the world. The interplay and fusion of capital that came the Marshall Plan was a way of interweaving networks among the dominant capitalist nations, ensuring mutual respect. Or, at least, the free coexistence of fighting. But wars have not disappeared. Not even remotely!

On the contrary, war remain a fundamental part of the system as a whole. In this sense, they represent 1) a big business, and 2) can be constantly oxygenate the "world system" of capital (to use the expression of Wallerstein). Wars are not inevitable, but in this framework of capitalism as the dominant system, yes they are.

Now there is talk insistently of a possible new global conflagration. -that Mortals foot to say virtually all of the world's population we have no further news of this, what really is cooking. What secrets Plantes has the Pentagon? What long-term strategy plan to the great captains of the global economy? If the capitalist powers have decided not to turn to face each other (with absolute military hegemony of Washington it takes to Western Europe as its nuclear hostage and leads that forced coalition is NATO), why then the possibility of a world war as now it seems possible?

In fact, when today we talk about "World War III", it is referring to the possibility of a conflict between the United States and its two real rivals: the PRC and the Russian Federation.

The wars fought today are all internationalized conflicts. In all, directly or indirectly, are present geoestratéticos interests of the major powers, either because the sale of weapons and / or reconstruction of what was destroyed is a lucrative business, either because those wars express the political and economic disputes over areas of influence with an overall value. The endless wars of Black Africa (for control of strategic resources such as, for example, coltan) or the Middle East (for oil control), are the manifestation of imperial plans of domination, where participating companies from different capitals countries called "central". And those, no doubt, are globalized wars. What do European soldiers in Afghanistan? What do the American aircraft carrier in the Red Sea? Why NATO forces bombard Libya or Egypt?

All these are global conflicts. Behind the facade of NATO or the UN are the oil companies, the big euro-US companies, investments of large global banking. Are not these global dealings, reminiscent of the Berlin Conference of 1884/5, where a few European capitalist powers dominance split Africa?

Now, alarmingly, we are talking about a possible world war. Do we really arrive at thermonuclear holocaust firing more than 15,000 missiles with nuclear charge? (Each with a 30 times greater than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs destructive power) What "new" world war is played in that possible?

Einstein once said: "I do not know if there will be World War III, but if there is , be sure the Fourth clubbed" .Heartbreaking, but extremely true.

The nuclear power developed during the second half of the twentieth century and so far now is impressive. All that energy to free an explosion would occur with a shock wave that would reach Pluto, severely damaging the planets Mars and Jupiter, destroying all life on Earth. technical feat, but that does not solve the main problems of the world. It can destroy an entire planet ... but we continue with street children, hungry people and ancient prejudices. Is that progress?

The current economic and political system -based solely on corporate profit individually offers no real possibility to fix the situation, because there is no concern for humanity, solidarity, empathy in its essence: the only thing that moves is the thirst for profit, the commercial spirit, business.

And war is business! ... Da profits, but only some, of course.

That is the degree of insensitivity to the current system arrives: kill people, destroy the work of civilization, produce criminal acts ... it's business! That is the spirit that encourages you! Everything is good, everything: death, sex, love, food, knowledge, entertainment, etc., etc. That's the dominant system!

So today the possibility of a new world war is open. But when we say "world", he is talking about the confrontation of the dominant power: the United States, with those who actually make it to spare, Russia and China. And fundamentally, with the latter: the progress of the yuan against the dollar is irrepressible. What is truly at stake in this nuclear madness is possible supremacy came to wield the main capitalist country in the world until now, when it begins to be seriously questioned. The United States is far from going bankrupt, but is no longer the untouchable power off when World War II ended. If then produced 50% of gross domestic product in the world, now does not reach 20%. It lost momentum, lost dynamism. In terms of turnover, the Chinese economy and left behind the US, and other currencies begin to seriously question the primacy of the dollar. Obviously Washington will do anything to not lose its place of honor. Will he dare to press the nuclear button?

Capitalism, as planetary system, and its locomotive: the US economy since 2008 pursuing a deep crisis that do not end to recover. In this scenario, the rise of China and its irrepressible strength is an intolerable affront. In response, the possibility of war works as a safety valve, as an emergency exit. Although, of course, war is no way out.

Today, the world capitalist system, led by the United States, increasingly is more driven by global capital incommensurable projection, with mega-companies that hold more power than many governments of poor countries. The decisions of these global corporations, in many cases exclusively financial -in other words, unproductive parasites that live on the speculation, also have global consequences. Anyway, the crisis hits. This is because the economic system based on profit does not offer real problems exits. If what counts is to continue making money at any cost, that clashes with the concrete human reality is worth more than human life private property. Are we inexorably toward a new world war then?

In the struggle to maintain supremacy, or in other words: not to a penny of capitalist profit, geostrategy of Washington aims to suffocate by all means their rivals, their real rivals, who are neither the Union Europe and Japan, which are no turns of leaves, the Beijing-Moscow axis. War, unfortunately, is one of the options, perhaps the only, in this fight to death.

marginal comment: we speak of civilization, but what you see, human dynamics has not changed much in relation to the history of our ancestors: continue fixing things-beyond any pompous statement- regarding who has the garrote larger. The small-and wrenching detail is that today, the club is called intercontinental ballistic missile with multiple nuclear warhead.

Taking a showdown between the giants, definitely nuclear material would be used. Countries that hold nuclear weapons are very few: Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel (although officially declared not having them), North Korea, China, all on a moderate scale, and to a greater extent, with infinitely greater capacity destructive: Russia and the United States. The Soviet Union ended up strangling the arms race; the United States, the arms business provides you a quarter of its economy. In fact one in four of its employees working in the defense industry. It is obvious that war feeds capitalism. But it happens that nuclear energy is playing invoke the worst demons.

There is no doubt that these mega-companies linked to the military industry (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Halliburton, BAE Systems, General Motors, IBM), all Americans, the war gives them life ( and money!). The tragic problem is that today, despite the crazy hypothesis "limited nuclear war" that exist in the Pentagon, if a conflict breaks out, no one knows how it will end, and said Einstein expression may be accurate.

That's why in defense of all humanity and our planet must fight strenuously against this sickening, disturbing possibility.