Engels’s saying that “war is the iron lung of capitalism” is still applicable now, except with the development that capitalism as a whole has been become a rusty iron lung. Capitalism’s main project has become war, and its only salvation is war and the continuation of war.
The “Israelis”, along with the Americans, are betting that the rapid, painful, and intense strikes that have been directed at Lebanon and Hezbollah over the past two weeks, leading to the assassination of its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and a number of the party’s leaders, will be sufficient to secure protection for “Israel”, by paralyzing Hezbollah and ending the northern front, and at the very least by completely separating it from Gaza and the West Bank.
(The following article was originally published in English on geopolitika.ru on the 17th of March 2023)
On Friday, March 10, a historic agreement was announced between Saudi Arabia and Iran, including resumption of diplomatic relations between the two neighboring countries after an interruption that lasted more than seven years (since January 2016). This agreement was reached through Chinese mediation at the highest levels. The two sides expressed gratitude to Chinese President Xi Jingping personally for his efforts to achieve a settlement between the two countries.
Ten years have passed since the Syrian crisis; a whole decade whose effects will not be over in one more decade even if the war has ended and the losses have stopped from today! Economic losses continue, and social losses, despite being difficult to be measured, some of their indicators say that the greatest losses are in the wide social effects that will continue to appear in the future. While the situation of the youth and children today is difficult and dim, their future burdens will be greater, as they will pay twice the price!
Whether the Beirut tragedy was an accidental explosion or a planned bombing, the following is obvious:
