THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA THE ALPHA PAIR BEHIND THE PEACE OF 1945

THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA THE ALPHA PAIR BEHIND THE PEACE OF 1945

The great Allied military victory of 1945 that has kept the world in peace for close to seventy years now and had created the world order that we live in today albeit refashioned after the end of the Cold war in 1989 is a treasure that must be preserved  because the dynamics of the world we live in today and the revolutionary technological changes that have swept the world since 1945 have made it clear that the 21^st century world can no longer afford the expense of another global military conflict as being the basis of fashioning out another world order as recorded in 1918 and 1945.

All through the ages violent conflicts as wars have tended to be, have been the preferred option of men in dealing with situations that seriously need to be addressed especially where nations are concerned. Wars have always been the method of last resort diplomacy where peaceful change is deemed impossible. A notable Prussian General/ statesman of the 19^th century Carl Von Clausewitz wrote that ‘war is the continuation of politick (diplomacy) by other means’.

That was in an era in the 18^th and 19^th century when wars were glorified as being a necessary instrument of national and political transformation.

 Healthy nations were expected to embark on wars from time to time keep a healthy national and political frame and ethos. The 20^th century Dictators in both Germany and Italy saw wars as a revolutionary means of both national and political transformation that was deemed to be good for the health and well being of society in general and encouraged their citizenry to think in such terms.

 The Japanese leaders in the 1930’s and 40’s preached the same message in their societies and generally encouraged their populace to embrace war as a necessary evil for political and social transformation. All this was before the great defeats suffered by these nations in 1945. These same groups of nations have today become the most pacifist and peaceful nations in the world today and ironically some of the most prosperous.

The great victors of the enterprise called the Second world war the United States and Russia however have however come to a different set of conclusion on the need to maintain huge armies and a massive military/industrial complex for the sake of deterrence and basically to ensure that the world order created by the peace of 1945 is not threatened by either party or any other nation.

 While both nations have engaged in saber rattling grandstanding and bluster for the past seventy years it is surprising that the leaders and citizens of both nations have not seen any reason to enter into a formal alliance that disregards their different ideological and political posturing to ensure that the world order that the victorious powers of 1945 created is assiduously maintained.

I believe both nations have enjoyed the luxury of being pride masters for over seventy years without the hazard of any viable challenge to their dominance and hegemony over the world stage and that is why they have engaged in incessant bickering.

 However in the last decade a new power, China has arisen to challenge and if possible displace the Alpha pair of global hegemony and other powers are also rising including the erstwhile losers who are watching the unfolding scenario with great interest.

Instead of Russia and America coming together to seal a pact to protect their hegemony as is found in a genuine Alpha pair in the animal world of felines, the two nations are jostling with each other with a view to tripping one another to the great delight of the wanna- be ambitious rivals anxiously waiting on the sidelines to displace the aged pair of 20^th century pride masters and Alpha pair.

If only the US and Russia realise that the greatest beneficiary of their incessant quarrels will be China and other upcoming powers anxiously waiting in the wings to upstage them the sooner they will realise that they need to ignore and settle their differences and make up a strong alliance to confront the strong challenge that is brewing like a storm in front of them from the nations that are also hungry for global hegemony.

 A word they say is enough for the wise. I don’t think that either the US or Russia will relish life as a displaced pride master. Thanks