From Proxy Wars to Global War

Almost eighty years after the establishment of the international order raised in the aftermath of the Second World War, the intensification of regional conflicts in critical geopolitical scenarios seems today more threatening to life than ever. The ongoing war in Ukrainian territory, unleashed by the United States' and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) harassment campaign against Russia, is part of so-called "proxy wars". The latter are a symptom of the growing strategic irrationality embedded in the risky coercive diplomatic practices pursued by the US to confront its increasingly acute hegemonic decline. The opening of war fronts in territories such as Ukraine or Palestine, which are nothing more than parallel fronts of a single global war, not only increases the probability of final devastation due to the irrational and deadly search for nuclear supremacy as a fundamental part of the American "grand strategy", but also are developing in the midst of a capitalocenic climate collapse. The latter offers clear evidence that the planet does not have enough atmosphere to deal with the disas-trous consequences of capitalism as a social system.