So what you are saying is that the respective potential threats have to be brought back into a greater balance so that the real threats can then be reduced again? So that the mutual threats prevent the parties from carrying out their threats?
With all the threat scenarios, I wonder what the difference is between countries that are in conflict.
The same system seems to work all over the world, doesn't it? States act according to the same principle: they administer, collect taxes, work with banks, trade.
Would I notice the difference if my country were under a Russian regime, an Indian regime, an Arab regime? Since the fall of the Soviet Union, i.e. the communist idea, hasn't everyone jumped on the same bandwagon? Is China communist? Or any other country that is labelled as such? I don't see the differences because they all seem to do exactly the same thing: have a central government, collect taxes, manage, bank, trade, use new technology, etc.
Buildings are constructed, business is done, consumer and other goods are produced and sold and bought. I see pictures of big cities all over the world, they are no different from each other, no matter which nationality they belong to.
The same things, more or less: energy sector, medical industry, entertainment industry, construction industry, military, administrative apparatus.
Language and culture is what distinguishes people from each other, whereas culture is quicker to make equal than language, in my view.
I think it is not desirable to have one world language; that is, the loss of all other languages, which will eventually be dominated by one. I think that those who have taken their language out into the world and it is spoken, or at least understood, by very many people everywhere, have the longest leverage.
However, as soon as one pursues these thoughts in depth, it becomes clear that the many mother tongues that exist in the world will not disappear overnight, but that it is a very slow development that transcends the lifespan of the individual and, as far as it is experienced unconsciously rather than consciously, does not pose an acute threat. The mixing of languages has always taken place. The degree of complexity that different languages have is preferable to that of reduction in my eyes, the manifold is necessary alongside the simple in its co-existence.
Centralisation is probably something people are afraid of, but if you leave fear aside and ask yourself how long it would take for a so-called world order to be established, you cannot neglect the question of languages in the process.
RE: West is in a double Catch-22 re Ukraine; Dangerous Escalation and Red Lines crossed everywhere