RUSSIA’S WAR MAXIM AND PARANOID PARALLELISM

Abstract

The international system is gradually sliding into another form of war. This study interrogates the national tendencies and personal idiocies at play when a major power and a global power involved in the Cold War, the US and Russia (the substance of the collapsed Soviet Union) are again engaged in a simmering altercation capable of leading to a ‘Colder War’ a la KatusaMarin. The paper discusses the fragility of the system’s fundamentals and the behavioral latitude of the actors’ traction and energies towards strategic cooperation. The objective of the study is to draw attention to the operational inadequacies in the international system whose basic function is to guide the world in shaping a global order that will engender peace and stability among the various state actors and non-state actors. Unfortunately, some of the actors within the system have exploited the abstraction of the system for their benefit by appropriating its vital mechanics through sublime and egotistic substitution of roles. The study then submits that the endless parallelisms animating the constant conflicts between the two powers and their allies within the system will not abate until the actors see peace as an obligation they owe humanity. The pursuit of personal desires by leaders via simulated national interest is a major albatross to an international system created to stimulate global peace and promote stability.