For years, Western powers and the White House have been working to reduce the perception of the danger of atomic weapons and their effects, to the point of making people believe, and themselves believe, that they can survive.

Author: Raúl Antonio Capote | internacionales@granma.cu

June 22, 2025, 10:06:30 PM

The United States opted for a "winner-take-all" policy. Photo: JORGE
A war of inestimable proportions began, against a backdrop of photos of frolicking politicians, eager for Napoleonic poses, accompanied by high-flown speeches based on the most abysmal ignorance.

Neighborhood bullying has replaced diplomatic action; until recently, politicians and officials with at least the most basic instinct for self-preservation could be counted on.

It can be said that the drumbeats of this new conflict began when George H.W. Bush declared, in 1992, that "America won the Cold War," ignoring the agreement he had made with Mikhail Gorbachev that the confrontation between the two blocs would end with no winners or losers.

The United States pursued a "winner-take-all" policy, not only violating agreements, such as not expanding NATO to Russia's borders, but also, along with Europe, swooped down like vultures on the wealth of the former socialist countries.

The "victors on occupied soil" policy played an important role in the nationalist backlash in Russia, a country that could not tolerate the dispossession and humiliation of those who were supposedly allies in the construction of "democracy" and "freedom."

With the fall of the USSR and the disappearance of the socialist bloc, US global hegemony reached its peak: armed robbery of resources and the plundering of the wealth of dependent countries marked the years following the end of the Cold War.

Euphoric, the champions of capitalism proclaimed the end of history, the total triumph of selfishness and predation, but the aggressor stagnated in new colonial wars.

The struggle for markets and the differences in the conception of international relations between the hegemon and the new emerging powers led to a disruption of the global balance, which is expressed in the confrontation between two increasingly defined blocs: one led by Russia and China, and the other by the United States.

Meanwhile, the old axiom of persuasion through fear of annihilation has given way to the doctrine of destroying rivals. Washington and its cronies see no other way to save their dominance.

TOMORROW WAS WAR: THE END OF NUCLEAR FEAR

Thus, in a world that seems to have little understanding of what is happening, with a significant portion of the left divided and stuck in a kind of limbo, its main theoretical foundations stored away in the cupboards, the scenario increasingly resembles that which humanity experienced in the days leading up to the First and Second World Wars.

The plan seems increasingly clear: destroy one by one the rivals to American hegemony, weakening Russia by pitting it against its rearmed and NATO-assisted neighbor, Ukraine.

Once the Eurasian giant is on the brink of collapse, a confrontation with China is necessary; however, it is first necessary to destroy all of its current and potential allies. Either of these alternatives would require generating global chaos.

However, the plan to weaken Russia failed. American laboratories and "think tanks" are no longer what they used to be, nor do they have much experience winning wars. Now they are the ones on the brink.

Dealing with Iran was the next step after attacking Syria. Blaming Iran for developing nuclear weapons is reminiscent of the accusation of weapons of mass destruction used to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

This time, the Zionist entity was tasked with carrying out the mission, but things didn't go as planned either: Iran didn't bend the knee. Then, what shouldn't have happened happened: the United States intervened directly in the war.

"A full suite of bombs was dropped on the main facility, Fordow; there's no other military in the world capable of doing this," gushed US President Donald Trump.

And he's right: only they could be so barbaric and arrogant. Bombing nuclear power plants could have triggered a massive global catastrophe, but no reason stopped them. Who else would be so foolish?

Iran will almost certainly respond accordingly, with an attack on US bases and the Zionist nuclear facility at Dimona, not to mention the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

For years, Western powers and the White House have been working to reduce the perception of the danger of atomic weapons and their effects, to the point of making people believe—and even themselves—that they can survive.

"Using nuclear weapons is not a tool of deterrence; it's global suicide," said meteorologist Alan Robock, one of the most prominent figures in the study of the environmental and climatic effects of the use of such weapons in the current scenario.

The war has begun, although the public is not yet aware of it. There is no longer a "neighbor's yard": now we all live in the same garden, and with nuclear weapons, there are no fences.