#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #SPAIN #CATALONIA #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Catalunya, FAC: The World at War (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Currently, as it has been for many years, so many that history does not know how

long it has been here, the world is at war. Rich versus poor, liberal capitalists
versus state capitalists, Christian Westerners versus Muslim Easterners, and so
on and on. ---- The world is in crisis. It has always been in crisis. The power
to maintain its status takes many forms to maintain it. One of them is the fear,
the destruction and the systematic elimination of those who can endanger his
privileges ---- Today there are several wars underway, if we understand war as an
armed conflict between 2 states or between 2 factions within a state, with all
its possible variants, with the intervention of third or fourth states, of
companies and corporations, etc, ... There are also dozens of "internal"
conflicts that could be called so in most of the states that exist today.

In the world, according to one of the many criteria, we have the following
conflicts classified as wars:
Ukraine, Yemen (with Saudi Arabia against Iran), Sahel (Burkina Faso), Ethiopia
(Tigray), Central African Republic, Libya, Syria (Rojava), Nagorno Karabakh,
Myanmar, Israel vs Palestine; with the involvement in many of them of the United
States, China, Russia and the European Union.

We will make a sketch of each of them, not with the aim of explaining the origins
and consequences, which would occupy several books, but to know the involvement
of the different states, governments and interests that are there and why not be
forgotten
Ukraine

The most media war we have, which has replaced all the headlines, conflicts and
price hikes of basic services that occurred previously.

This is an imperialist war to solve Russia's internal problems, disrupt the world
energy market and whitewash European neo-Nazism. Because of the interests of
political elites, people die, entire ecosystems are destroyed and millions of
people have to leave their homes.

Yemen

Since 2015 the Yemeni population, largely Houthi, ousted the country's oligarchs
in a coup d'état. Then Saudi Arabia and a coalition of allied countries stepped
in to defend the fugitive rulers, creating the biggest humanitarian crisis of the
moment. According to the UN, 7 million people, a quarter of the population, are
at risk of starvation.

In order to prevent Saudi Arabia from gaining more power in the area, its
regional enemy, Iran, entered the conflict.

In 2020, 233,000 people died due to war, hunger and cholera, with the worst
outbreak ever recorded.

Yemen is a state resulting from the Ottoman Empire, which lasted more than 20
years as 2 states, being the first socialist state in the Arab world, which
unified in 1990, annexing a small part of Saudi Arabia. With several ethnic
groups, a power structure was formed in which they marginalized a large part of
the population, which led to the protests during the Arab Spring and the fight
against Islamism that was mirrored in Al-Qaeda.

As always, the geostrategic value of the cradle of the insurgent part, in the
west of the country, must be taken into account. Whoever controls this area will
have part of the control over the Red Sea. That is why the international Arab
coalition has primed and massacred this region with such cruelty.

Currently, the internal struggle to separate the south from the north continues,
with Saudi Arabia trying to find an exit from the conflict that is worthy of it,
since it has brought the war home and masses of headaches, both economic and
geostrategic. And Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has grown stronger, creating
a third actor powerful enough to be reckoned with (although this radical Salafist
group is in conflict with the Islamic State).

Sahel

The Sahel is a biogeographic zone in the north of the African continent. Between
the Sahara desert and the Sudanese savannah. It extends from the Atlantic Ocean
to the Red Sea crossing the entire continent. Military coups are the usual tonic
in this region.

It is an important geostrategic space in the African region for certain world
powers, which are interested in its location on the map and in the availability
of strategic natural resources for them.
Among many other things, as the beginning of the current wave of conflicts, which
actually come from far, far away (from European colonization), there was the
Tuareg uprising in northern Mali, which France severely suppressed , creating and
encouraging the emergence and giving part of the control of the territory to the
"local branch of the Islamic State. It would become a "or I control you and
create poverty and discontent so that others will kill you while I arm them".
Mauritania (a country rich in iron that does not want to be conquered by
Morocco), Burkina Faso and now Ivory Coast have suffered the consequences of this
action. They are countries where the various oligarchies protected by the Western
states and financed by large business corporations have enslaved, massacred and
dehumanized a large part of their population. Local oligarchies fighting each
other to gain control over resources and the population.
The action of the army in Burkina Faso and the recruitment of volunteers by
self-defense groups, abusing the population, has made hatred grow, creating a
breeding ground for recruitment by radical jihadists .

On the other hand, there are Niger, Chad, Guinea and Nigeria, which have suffered
the actions of Boko Haram, the main jihadist group in the area, famous for
attacks, massacres, femicides and kidnappings of women and girls, originating
from the discontent created by the fights between the powerful in the area and
paid by big companies with millionaire interests.
The rest of the countries in the Sahel do not escape from the instability
produced by the interests of states and corporations. These are Senegal, Sudan,
Eritrea and Ethiopia.

With this is known, but little relayed, the conflict of the independence of South
Sudan, with all the oil interests at stake, the control of the military caste and
the coup of October 2021.

Tigray

It begins as a separatist war in the Tigray region, due to the eternal frictions
of the African giant which, for a change, come from a long time ago, with
anti-government insurgencies, separatist guerrillas and inter-ethnic conflicts.
This is a state with more than 80 national groups. The construction of a federal
state sought to alleviate the previous centrality, but the obligation to ascribe
to a specific ethnic group and to give control of the region to the majority of
the area created new castes, and new marginalized, and as a colophon it put an
end to the communal lands to the detriment of the population and to the benefit
of the state structures, which caused more of the population to revolt.

With so many ethnic groups there are multitudes of conflicts (or excuses for
having them or, even, simplifying the explanations of these), militias, and
separatist movements. But the population's problems don't end there. There is
also a border conflict between Ethiopia and Sudan over the area called the
Al-Fashqa triangle, a very rich area for agriculture. And the conflict between
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the construction of a dam on the Nile.

With all this, it must be taken into account that Ethiopia is a transit point on
the migration route from sub-Saharan Africa to Saudi Arabia, which generates more
vulnerable people in the area.

Let's not forget that this state is part of the region known as "The Horn of
Africa", comprised of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia; where there are
already famous conflicts over Somalia, of which the state government does not
control a large part of the territory. But this does not mean that their
population is free, since they are under the control of other types of
authorities. In addition, it must be taken into account that 3 of these states
are in border conflict over the Afar and Somali region.

Also explain that with these explanations, the belief can be given that the
organizational problem of many of these states is the multitude of ethnic groups
that make it up, with borders created by the West. But nothing could be further
from the truth, as the state of Somalia, for example, is mainly ethnically
Somali, which has not prevented the various disputes, wars and massacres between
local oligarchies, warlords and big businessmen who they finance everything that
is done and profit from their productions.

The Central African Republic

This state, since its creation in 1960, has not had political stability, since
the different powers have been fighting to get power by force. Currently, after
the more or less public intervention of its neighboring states, it is now the
battleground between France and Russia for the hegemony of control and influence,
which is transformed into the sale of products. Chad and Rwanda are also directly
involved.

This conflict is not only military, as the main political castes are under
accusations and investigations of fraud, conspiracy, theft,... Nothing new.

Libya

After the Arab Spring, the country was divided into multipolar conflicts, with
many local actors and warlords trying to get their small share of power. In the
beginning it was a conflict between many visions, although in the media it was
polarized in two sectors, the city of Tripoli and that of Trobuk. Later it became
a war for the control of the entire state territory, with the intervention of
other external actors, such as Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The military
progress and control of the territory of the different actors has been swinging
according to the support of money and weapons that have been given by the
different states (among them Russia, Egypt, Qatar, Sudan, the United Nations, the
United States and the European Union).

Bear in mind that for a certain time, the "local branches" of Al-Qaeda and the
Islamic State gained part of the control of the territory, but ended up making
them disappear by force of arms.

This country is one of those that experienced the Arab Spring, along with Libya,
Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Where it was possible to destabilize more
those who held power and could endanger the foreign interests of the rich and
powerful, these are the states that have ended up worse.

Afghanistan

Inheritance of the war policy of the United States and Russia, and cradle of the
global expansion of the evil called jihadism, with Al-Qaeda then leading this
project, Afghanistan has not even recovered from the war against Russia that was
armed by the United States in 1979, nor in the war against jihadist terrorism
that the United States started in 2001. In the latter, the United States and its
allies fought against the Taliban, whom they previously armed, in the 'Operation
Enduring Freedom under the pretext of ending Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. After
imposing a "local" puppet government in which corruption and disorganization
prevailed, the Taliban, with the weapons left by the invaders themselves,
reconquered the country and brought it to the current situation,

Syria, Kurdistan (Rojava), Iraq and Turkey

This war is known to more than half the world. After the US invasion of
Afghanistan, it was Iraq's turn. The massacres produced under the pretext of
liberating the country from Saddam Hussein with Operation Iraqi Freedom, was a
failure. It served to change the relationship of powers, to end the traditional
tribal systems to modify them and to top Jihadism and spread it.

Despite all this, in 2011, the Syrian people rose up in arms to depose the
government of al-Assad after being harshly repressed to ask for more rights and
freedoms, since this clan had been ruling the country for more than 30 years, and
started a war in which little by little more and more countries intervened, in
which 4 sides were initially created (Government, Kurds, Jihadists and
Opponents). Then the Islamic State came to be strong and conquer a large part of
the territory. Only the Kurdish people managed to face him. And they recovered
territory and liberated other towns, until together with other international
actors, they managed to finish them off in the area, but they never disappeared.
Once the positions in Syria of Kurds, Rebels and Government have been consolidated,

For more information you can follow Plataforma Azadi and Kurdistan America Latina.

Nagorno Karabakh

This conflict had been latent for 30 years, between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but
it originated with tensions that arose in the 60s. In 1988, the Republic of
Karabakh, belonging to Azerbaijan, with an Armenian majority, requested accession
to Armenia. Between 1992 and 1994 there was an open war that ended with the
victory of Armenia. Since then there has been a "low-intensity" war, which has
kept the territory with some independence, although Armenia has not recognized
the self-styled Republic of Artsakh since 2016,

Central and Southern Asia

Disputes exist between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan for the delimitation of their
common borders, with the incentive of a dispute for an infrastructure for the
distribution of water. The blue gold Every little while "minor" incidents happen
in the context of war.

Discontent continues to grow in Pakistan. There must still be a prime minister
who will last the 5 years that belong to him, since the country is governed by a
military junta that must prepare the replacement of its chief of staff. This
country has a tense relationship with India over the Kashmir region, a region
heavily punished by the war tensions of both countries, which also has a part
inside China, with whom it also has tense relations over this territory.

In South Asia there are also notable tensions: In the Maldives, Islamist
militancy continues to grow, which in turn makes the government suspicious. In
Sri Lanka, the government is straining relations with the Muslim and Tamil
minorities because of the legislative discrimination they create. Tension and
discord between different factions and parties continues to grow in Nepal. The
ground is being created and prepared for new conflicts and the consequent repression.

Myanmar

Since 1948, once independence from Great Britain, there has been no peace in this
part of the world, mainly centered on the majority ethnic group that inhabits the
central part of the state, the Barnar, against the rest. Not that the English
were good masters, but that they did not treat the population as other human
beings and cruelly repressed any dissent. The main actor in all the conflicts has
been the country's armed forces.

The former Burma jumped into all the news for the release of the Nobel Peace
Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the possibility of the military junta to hold
elections, its victory, and the massacre of the Rohingya that no one prevented

Israel vs Palestine and the whole Arab world

This conflict is one of the most followed, although the misinformation that
reaches us through the mass media makes it difficult to understand what is
happening. In addition, the Catalan government and elites are a great ally of
Zionism. You can find abundant information about this conflict at
boycottisrael.net and to know its history you can read the illustrative comic of
"Palestine. A look at the past, a look at the present". It is a conflict of how a
highly technical racist state sweeps away a population it considers third-class
and subjects them to an apartheid that serves as a field for social experimentation.

The World at War

Let's not forget the various "internal wars" against part of the population that
live in China, in most Central American states, the power struggles between
ultra-liberal capitalist or state capitalist political factions in South America,
the clashes between ethnic groups provoked by companies and governments in many
African states that we have not mentioned, or the disputes between states to
control areas; the ultra-authoritarian states and governments that do not allow
any gap for dissent or free thought where always, always, the loser is the
population, the one who is massacred is the people who live there, the loser is
the civil structure and social that creates community. In short, the life and
reproduction of it.

The problem is the creation of fictitious states, with imposed borders, which do
not reflect ethnicities or cultures. They are made for the control of resources
and population, making people live and fight for the few resources that
governments leave to them who separately could live peacefully and even cooperate.

The problem is governments and their allies, who generate power structures.
Companies and military castes that hoard resources and power. And power in this
world is dead.

Be sure to stay informed by visiting the Deciphering the War web pages that do
good coverage of many conflicts and from a disinterested point of view, the
publication Todo por Hacer, especially its April issue on Ukraine and the Free
Sheets that we publish on the website of the FAC of fellow internationalists from
the Catalan North-East

Pau Osuna

https://federacioanarquista.wordpress.com/2022/11/24/el-mon-en-guerra/
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