Global Tensions Between East And West Reach Boiling Point - TruePublica
By Graham Vanbergen
– Whilst sitting in a street cafe enjoying a Cappuccino watching busy
people doing busy things it is hard to imagine that another war on the
scale of 1939-45 could ever happen again, especially in Europe, after
all, we’re all part of the European Union, a bloc of 28 nations set up
in first place to end any future conflict on the continent. America has
not experienced international conflict on its soil for over 200 years.
But this over confidence in western security is misplaced as the events
leading up to the next major conflict won’t be like the last.
You might be surprised to learn that just two years ago out of a
total of 195 countries, 151 of the world’s nations were involved in some
form of conflict. What is worse is that the study from the Institute
for Economics and Peace (IEP) shows that the world has been getting
progressively less peaceful over the last decade.
