Honoring WWII Vets with WWIII on the Horizon

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

One would assume that in times of major upheavals all of us realize how fragile this beautiful planet Earth and its entire living species are.

The number of the threats to our survival is constantly growing with the recent addition of COVID-19 to an already weighty list that included nuclear security, international terrorism, climate change, and even asteroid strike, to name just a few.

Some “strategic thinkers” in Washington continue to claim that most of these problems are caused by outside state and non-state actors, and that the solution lies in maintaining U.S. world dominance. They simply cannot let go the illusion that the end of Cold War meant the final and total victory by the West and from now on the “exceptional” and “indispensable” Western leader, which is America, has become the sole superpower that must unilaterally run the show on this planet.

However, in his recent book “The Age of Illusions,” American historian and bestselling author Andrew Bacevich explains how, within a quarter of a century, the United States ended up with gaping inequality, permanent war, moral confusion, and an increasingly angry and alienated population.

The same “thinkers” are blaming it all on Russia or China for somehow managing to hijack U.S. democracy and turn Americans against each other. Not only does this fake theory denigrates the intellectual level of American people who can be so easily manipulated by a relatively negligible number of posts in the social media, but it does not solve the problem and only pushes us closer to World WAR III and the end of our civilization as we know it.

Another option is to try to turn the enemies into allies like we did in WWII and the upcoming celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany provides a perfect opportunity to do that. When the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition come together to honor war veterans and at the same time call for the unity toward global dangers facing the humankind, they make an important step in right direction.

During the last G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited foreign heads of state to visit Moscow on May 9, 2020 for the Victory Day (the date might be postponed due to coronavirus pandemic) exactly for this purpose.