By Konstantinos Konstantinidis
Amphiktyon
We have entered the age of unpredictable and unexpected ideas, events, and technological achievements, with direct repercussions on public life as well. Mr. Trump, like a modern Aeolus, has sown the winds, and peoples are now experiencing storms. Nothing remains standing. Everything is being changed, everything is being overturned.
The beginning, however, was made by Mr. Putin with the attack against Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
International Law, which had been the pillar of the global edifice, collapsed spectacularly with the “explosives” placed by Mr. Trump in Ukraine, the Middle East, Venezuela, and with those he is preparing for Greenland and Iran — and more is yet to come.
Mr. Trump, through both deeds and words, turned the Charter of the United Nations into scrap paper. The UN, the supreme—albeit ineffective—organ of global order, has now been left without an institutional roof.
For the American President, “international law is the limit of his morality.” However, to speak the truth, this phrasing belongs to his friend, Mr. Erdoğan, who declares that “the borders of Turkey extend as far as the borders of his heart.”
One acts within the limits of his “morality,” the other within the limits of his “heart.” Let us see what will remain free for the others — the immoral and the heartless.
And to speak seriously, they have surpassed even Hitler in methods and inventiveness.
Indeed, as reported by the Reuters news agency, the United States is preparing to buy the vote of the 74,000 inhabitants of Greenland in order to proceed with annexation through a “free” referendum — that is, even legally. So cynically. So shamelessly!
There, Mr. Erdoğan proved to be a pioneer, having imprisoned the leader of the opposition, Mr. Ekrem İmamoğlu, as well as thousands of Kurds and political dissidents.
As Mr. Trump has stated, raids will also begin against drug cartels in Latin American countries, which, according to the old Monroe Doctrine, belong to him. By his order, the principle of freedom of navigation was also violated, with boarding operations against five Russian oil tankers in the Atlantic Ocean. The Russians, meanwhile, are threatening to retaliate in kind against American tankers in the North Atlantic and the Arctic.
American energy giants are preparing to invade Venezuela in order to extract its rich reserves. Venezuela will “sell” its oil to the United States and import American products. Nevertheless, the population—even under conditions of servitude—will see better days than under the oppressive Maduro regime.
It appears that the world has been divided into spheres of influence and that the Western Hemisphere—what we call the Western world—belongs to the United States. Russia will take its share in Ukraine, perhaps China will also launch a “boarding” operation against Taiwan. And then will the world calm down? Or, through the method of “ping-pong,” will we be led to escalation and to nuclear annihilation?
Europe, lacking a unified political will, will once again be placed under the security guarantee of the United States, in exchange for Greenland? In any case, it will bear the financial burden of Ukraine’s reconstruction, in addition, of course, to its already high defense expenditures to confront Russia.
Truly, what would you say if tomorrow Mr. Trump were to declare: “Crete belongs to me,” because the Sixth Fleet is anchored there, and from there he controls the Mediterranean, three continents, and the commercial and energy axis of China, India, Europe, and Russia?
Is the government prepared to confront such an extreme, yet by no means improbable, scenario? Or will we once again descend into civil conflict?
Am I perhaps becoming a messenger of unprecedented news that may scandalize potential imperialists?
Once again, I raise my voice in favor of peace and the avoidance of confrontation among nuclear powers, because the “ping-pong” they have begun is extremely dangerous. All of humanity must raise one great voice.
(10/1/26)
Amphiktyon