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2023: International Security Disintegration, Polarization, and World Disorder
The year 2023 was unique in the sense that it did not deceive expectations or produce obvious positive results for most of us. There is no reason to believe that December, with its traditional Christmas rush, family dinner with turkey, and unboxing of long-awaited presents, will bring new trends that could radically change the situation for the better next year.
The breakdown of international security in 2023 continued at an alarming pace. However, the ongoing destructive military conflict in Ukraine, the largest in Europe since 1945, is gradually being supplanted on the world agenda by a new war between Hamas and Israel.
February 24, 2022, set a precedent, or rather, freed the world’s major players from the deterrent mechanisms and international obligations governing the use of military force. The old system of international security that has existed since the end of the Cold War no longer works. The world has become more unpredictable and less safe.
The Hamas attack on Israel in October was a devastating blow to the security architecture in the Middle East that the U.S. and its allies had built over decades. After the evacuation of the U.S. military from Afghanistan in 2021, it is the biggest failure of U.S. foreign policy in the last 5 years.