Global disorder: No rules, all war
From Iran to Gaza to Ukraine, a pattern of unchecked conflict is bypassing law and diplomacy, taking the world towards a dangerous new normal
Someone recently likened the current condition of our bombed and bloodied world to the 'Warring States period', a centuries-long era in ancient China that was marked by the brutal logic of zero-sum politics and unremitting violence.
The term may be an eminently good fit. 'Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win,' Margaret Atwood wrote 30 years ago, in her bleak, beautiful poem The Loneliness of the Military Historian.
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