Opinion

The Blue Planet : War or Peace?-Inuwa Waya

Published

on

Inuwa Waya

<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"SL4GciVF" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"KOjGYbhH" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>By<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Inuwa Waya<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During the 20th Century&comma; human life lost its value as a result of the barbarism that accompanied the first and the second World wars&period; The war machines invented for the protection of mankind were ruthlessly unleashed against the human race&period; The inability of the League of Nations to prevent the appalling crimes led to the emergence of the United Nations at the end of the second World war in 1945&period; Since than&comma; the United Nations Security Council &lpar;UNSC&rpar; has been working to enforce international peace and security without success&period; On the 13th June&comma; 2025&comma; Israel began a massive military operation against Iran&period; The operation according to the Jewish state was aimed at degrading the ability of the Iranian State to develop nuclear weapons&period; The Israel claim that Iran is developing nuclear weapons was refuted by Rafael Grossi&comma; the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency &lpar; IAEA&rpar;&period; The Iranian nuclear programme according to Tehran is for civilian purposes&period; Under Operation True Promise&comma; Iran rains down missiles and drones against Israel’s critical military targets&period; Since than&comma; Iran and Israel has been trading air attacks&period; The international community is helplessly watching &period; Donald Trump&comma; a long time ally of Benjamin Netanyahu had stated that the United States of America will decide whether to join Israel in attacking Iran within the next two weeks&period; The American President had taken this latitude to allow diplomacy to work and to also convince his make America great again &lpar;MAGA&rpar; movement to agree for the Americans to take part in the fight&period; A window of international diplomacy was opened with the Iranian foreign Minister Abbas Agharachi having his first meeting with the European Union delegation led by the foreign ministers of France&comma; Britain&comma; Germany and the EU foreign policy chief&period; During the meeting which was held in Geneva&comma; the Swiss Capital&comma; Iran reiterated it&&num;8217&semi;s position that the Country can not negotiate their civilian nuclear programme while Israel’s aggression against their nation is ongoing&period; The stakes are high and the atmosphere is palpable&period; America and the European Union are supporting Israel in its aggression against Iran&period; Even without participating in combat operation&comma; the Americans are already helping Israel with Iron Dome&comma; Arrow and David&&num;8217&semi;s sling to defend itself against the Iranian drones and missiles&period; China&comma; Russia and other Countries from the global South faulted Israel for what they regarded as a unilateral and unprovoked aggression against a member of the United Nations&period; According to them&comma; such action is against the International Law and Order&period; The same position was taken by the Muslim Countries under the Organisation of Islamic Conference &lpar;OIC&rpar;&period; If Israel refuse to stop the attack&comma; and the Americans decided to join the fight at the expiration of the two weeks period&comma; the situation will deteriorate further and even become more complicated&period; Iran had already warned the United States not to participate in the conflict&period; The Islamic Republic also sent messages across to all the Countries in the region where America has its military bases not to allow their territory to be a launching pad by the Americans&period; In simple terms&comma; Iran is sending signal that if America join the fight&comma; all the American military bases in Qatar&comma; UAE&comma; Saudi Arabia&comma; Bahrain and Iraq&comma; are legitimate targets for the Iranian Armed forces&period; That also means the Iranian allies &lpar; both state and non state actors&rpar; in the region would assist Iran in this regard&period; The Houthis in Yemen&comma;Hamas in Gaza&comma; Hesbollah in Lebanon and the Iraq Shia militia are all affiliated to Iran&period; The Strait of Hormuz is within easy reach for Iran and the Houthis&period; Under pressure&comma; both of them can block that shipping route&period; That will impact negatively on International Shipping and would block 20&percnt; of the World crude oil supply&period; The global economy will definitely be affected&period; Before we move out of the Middle East&comma; we should note that Israel is already fighting with Hesbollah&comma; Houthis and Hamas&period; In Gaza alone&comma; nearly 56&comma;000 people were killed by Israel&period; In Syria&comma; Israel’s rain of missiles are dropping on daily basis ostensibly to protect the Druze tribe&period; The Jewish state had also made incursion into the Syrian territory and established a military base around the Golan Heights&period; Elsewhere in Europe&comma; the war between Russia and Ukraine has become protracted&period; The conflict is adversely affecting the World economy&period; To stop the war&comma; Russia insisted that Ukraine must recognise the newly redesign borders and abandon their desire to join NATO&period; Ukraine and its main supporters the EU&comma; refused to accept those conditions&period; The war is still going on&period; There are other worrisome conflicts that are equally threatening World peace in Africa&comma; Asia and Latin America&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"sxvLNze1" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>As mentioned earlier&comma; UNSC is finding it difficult to enforce peace and security at the global stage&period; The five permanent members are polarised along unipolar and multipolar beliefs&period; The undemocratic nature of the veto power neutralises any position the non permanent members would take&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Be that as it may and whether America decide to join Israel in its war with Iran or not&comma; the World is in a delicate balance&period; If the World powers want a better and safer World as they always say&comma; they must collectively match words with actions&period; International Law and Order must be respected by all Countries irrespective of their military or economic power&period; The United Nations&comma; especially its Security Council&comma; must be reformed to make it more democratic as regards to the exercise of veto power&period; These two are sine qua non for peace and security to flourish in our mother earth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1004305389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

Trending

Exit mobile version