By Silviu Craescu.
Today the international security is a milieu widely open to the strategic opportunities resulted from the global competition between the big powers. The uni-polar world is counterbalanced by the multi polar world. The European Union and the Far East represent new power poles in actual development and re-cast. The disappearance of the economic barriers and the ideology blocks between states and some group of states has risen both the risk and the need for security in Europe, the trend being a sweeping democratic wave through the entire world. The security crisis in Ukraine, represents a test for Occident, and a way by which Russia, as a conflict fabricator seeks to enforce its hegemonic type strategic interests.
It is clear that the season is open for competition between the Eurasian and the Euramerican zones. Ukraine makes just some pretext from the viewpoint of purely political justification of Russia since from the economic, geostrategic and geopolitical angle Ukraine is seen as some spatial vector through which Russia acts to proactively menace the economy, stability and the security of the European Union and the entire Europe.
In Ukraine are currently experimenting the modern practices of the information warfare, economic warfare and energy warfare ,but also for planned diversions, sabotage, or media warfare as well.
Russia seeks economic interests only and defends its economic interests infringing the Ukraine’s national sovereign status by fuelling a hybrid war under the shelter of the international right principle, by way of involving special forces and perfectly camouflaged mercenaries and without any identification marks or tokens, which using specialized diversion means could invoke the anti-terrorist argument for taking over the ,,responsibility” of the triggered warfare, so that could be further avoided the legal – military consequences incurred by any classical warfare, which violates the international rights principle and other internationally endorsed treaties.
Beside its hegemonic interests, Russia actually seeks to deploy a strategic foreplay on multiple plans by which to forward its own political-economic aims and to represent a world actor currently in a global competition with no prominent globalization leader looming ahead, yet.
So, what Russia fails to comprehend is that the Western World represents a values system where the mentality of the Old World find no backing anymore.
The new threats to the international security, are based on the terrorism sustained from black money and corruption which rake the newly hatched democracies, the criminality and the economic oligarchy which incur damages to citizens’ rights and liberties sub-mining of the national sovereignty. Russia turned out as one of the world class exporters of insecurity, across-the-border criminal activities, corruption and across-economy organised crime, gun smuggling, algorithmic terrorism and a strategic allied of the anti-globalisation groups’ ideological extremism.
The new global threats are a consequence of the world polarisation, but also a hassle between the locked down ideological systems and those open and free ones.
Russia although claim the economic supremacy, still left however the promoter of a corrupted oligarchy tributary to a bureaucratic, hyper-centralised, clumsy Mafia.
The international terrorism and the conflicts which marred the South East Europe, the Middle East, the North Africa, Georgia, South Osetia, always telltales about the struggle of some nations for the democratic values and further transition to a new political and economical system meant to represent an alternative not just purely geopolitical and ideological but also securing the wealth of the applicant societies and an institutional, decentralised and corruption-free to warrant fair chances for everyone and to guarantee and free access to education, information and resources, providing a competitive and transparent milieu.
The transformation of the world into political – military and ideological blocks is no longer a solution for long time now, as it is a utopia oriented against the progress.
The world security cannot be accomplished just under the conditions provideed in the Article 5 of the North Atlantic Alliance, the solidarity of the entire international community being put to test, which should not fall in the trap of some geopolitical games leading the world back to an age of belligerence, and a re-division of the globe in spheres of influence. The economical, innovative, technical – scientific and spiritual discoveries of the Occident are way much too important and made with sacrifices, to be subdued in a battle of a purely ideological and reactionary type.
There are signals telling Russia is willing to build and Eurasian Empire comprising Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia and other possible countries. Greece is lured to an obscure sphere of influence, due to its economical status. These scenarios are dangerous, yet Russia’s target certainly is, of course, to discourage Europe (EU) which should not fall into the adversary’s logic trap, be it an ideological adversary only, manifested in the first stage of the forefront and propaganda as we were able to see just at the level of some North Korean leaders.
