1914-2014: One Hundred Years of Conflict, An Age of Endless Wars | Global Research
The “great powers” are marking the centenary of World War One. Ironically the world is still at war. There are global and regional conflicts in progress. Rising tensions between India and Pakistan (two nuclear powers), US-NATO led “civil wars” in Iraq and Syria, as well as the on-going Palestinian Israeli “armed conflict” which continuous without an end in sight. Europe has not been spared the horrors of conflict in 2014 either. Ukraine has descended into a mutually agreed upon slaughter fest. Call it a proxy war if you like. That is, this eastern European former Soviet republic is now the scene of a re-newed and revived cold war gone hot. One more militariseddispute, in which a former superpower and another in rapid decline go head to head against each other all over again. It is all a bit like Muhammad Ali –Joe Foreman (“The Rumble in the Jungle”) rematch many years later on. Who will win this new match or protracted conflict this time? Place your bets, ladies and gentleman! Strictly on the basis of hardnosed, geo-political considerations, I will put my money on Moscow . It is simply a question of geography. The Ukraine- Russia border is to the Kremlin, what the US-Mexico border is to the White House. In other words, both these highly sensitive areas belong to what should be uncontested spheres of influence.
