And the time has come to change the paradigm
By: Beatrice E. Rangel - 19/11/2024
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From 1945 onwards, the world had been operating under the paradigm that the United States was the ultimate broker. That is to say, no project was consolidated without the support or acquiescence of the United States. The pivotal country of modernization had taken a different step than that advised by its founding fathers: to defend freedom in other regions of the world. And it launched itself in this direction, assuming key roles in World War II and the Korean War. Over the years, its elites devoted all their creativity to creating an institutional framework capable of resolving conflicts and creating standards of conduct in the economic and political spheres capable of protecting peace. And the system functioned for sixty years.
By the end of the twentieth century, however, the system was looking extremely weakened. Not only had uncontrollable wars broken out in Asia and Africa, but para-state actors emerged on the warpaths over which the exercise of control was limited. Because these were movements that - by protecting specific economic interests - could easily and easily change sides, sowing violence everywhere. The process of decolonization also contributed significantly to creating pressures on the international system. The United Nations Committee on Decolonization succeeded in increasing the number of countries from 99 in 1945 to 193. Many of these countries lacked economic viability as a result of wars of liberation, civil wars or simply their size and endowment of resources. Thus, the United Nations, whose fundamental task was to prevent conflicts and resolve disputes, began to deal with other issues such as child care; food supplies; cultural development and support for relief activities in the event of natural disasters. Thus, its fundamental function of peacekeeping and conflict resolution began to become blurred. And as the United Nations stopped dealing with peacekeeping and conflict resolution, the United States took absolute control of the role.
Today we are faced with an unprecedented situation. The United Nations has reached paraplegia and the American sovereign wishes to isolate itself from the world and its consequences. Because the mandate for President Trump could not be clearer. The American sovereign wishes to resolve its multiple existential and economic dilemmas without any influence from foreigners and without influencing the lives of foreigners. It is a people stunned by the reduction of its middle class from 61% to 50% in just 25 years, by a brutal attack on one of its flagship cities in 2001 and by the deterioration of public services, it no longer wants any foreign presence on its territory or American presence anywhere in the world.
We will therefore be moving through previously unmapped territory in which each country will have to better understand its position in the world, its potential and its capacity to care for its people in order to rebuild a world of rules in the future in which each country participates without expecting the United States to solve its problems. On the contrary, the time has come to participate in solving the challenges of the United States if freedom is to count.
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