- Despite common understanding, that the use of armed force shall be banned in international relations, it became standard that large military powers attack smaller governments.
- Every such attack brings serious escalation of global uncertainty, distrust, and insecurity in the international relations, because no one can be sure to be the next victim. Countries or governments that do that cannot be trusted, since in many eyes it is no different than the organised crime or terrorism.
- New violence is never limited to the territory of attacked country. The whole population of attackers is radicalised, also because those that are naturally against violence must be supressed. Governments waging wars need also to find reasons for them, which often leads to the intrigues and intensive defamation campaigns called propaganda, spreading more fear and distrust to everywhere.
- Large superpowers tend to protect themselves by trying to weaken their counterparts, or at least not allowing them to be sufficiently strong. Smaller countries, which do not have such capacity, join military alliances with superpowers.
- Under the current conditions, neither of the two mentioned means of protection can sustain global peace and stability in the long run. The former can be considered as permanent hidden war. But the latter is also no different. If the strong members of an alliance already attacked someone, not only them, but the whole alliance can lose the trust. More countries join it, more tension it will bring, since many countries may consider growing military power as a new thread. And that is not all. When such attack happens, other members usually do not condemn their ally as aggressor. These all are reasons why the current system of global security is collapsing.
- To summarise the danger, current protective measures to avoid smaller wars between the states create conditions for the large global conflict by creating and escalating tensions between the whole parts of the world. The same situation already happened before the World War I.
- Yes, there can be a working global security system, where one or more largest and strongest military powers or alliances serve as “world policemen”, guarding the principle of non-use of military force in foreign relations. And yes, its stability can grow with the increasing number of members. But for its proper functioning the two important conditions must be met:
- All such “policemen” must lead by example, being positive role models, who by themselves never breach rules that they protect.
- Not politics, but values and principles must reign. Membership in such “peace zone” or “alliance of policemen” must be open for any country willing to respect its rules, regardless of political systems, governments, religions, or other societal values that individual members may promote or not promote on their own territories.
- None of these two mentioned conditions are met today. Aim of this peace initiative is to change it.
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