• ALBERTO RED

    @rojas1977

  • ALBERTO HERNANDEZ

    @albertohv_

Updated Wednesday, February 23, 2022-02:30

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The old Iron Curtain rises again in the world.

It does so to divide old enemies again, but the new confrontation introduces some actors that were not there in 1945. After the global reset caused by the Second World War, a system of

nuclear balance was generated that pitted the Soviet empire against the United States

, although they did it in third world conflicts and always indirectly.

Today China breaks in as an

economic and military power to question the supremacy of Washington and occupy the spaces of the former USSR, while

Russia is reluctant to lose its place

in History and the European Union attends the function as a supporting actor.

The tension rises in each continent of the planet, where the contenders try to strengthen their areas of influence again.

The new Cold War may not have a founding event, but since the second Iraq war the two sides have launched

control of key raw materials

for their survival at the cost of arming dictators, setting up naval bases in the corners of the world or build walls again on the borders.

The military cost has skyrocketed

, as has research into drones and hybrid warfare involving cyber attacks.

The entire planet chooses sides, and belonging to one or another bloc implies up to which vaccine you receive against the coronavirus, and to which part of the planet you will be able to travel with it.

China expands in Africa in the face of US indifference

, almost absent from the continent since the Mogadishu disaster in 1993, and

takes up positions in Latin America

using the Bolivarian axis as a bridge.

In Asia, the sticking point is Taiwan

, the stone in Beijing's shoe and a handful of strategic islands that are disputed with Japan and South Korea.

That seems to be the hottest scenario of this new Cold War.

With the permission of Vladimir Putin and old Europe.

Sources:

Atlantic Council, Elcano Royal Institute, European Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Gazprom, Belt and Road Initiative, Foreign Policy, BBC, ABC News, The Economist, The Washington Post, South China Morning Post and own elaboration.

Writing:

Alberto Rojas.

Infographics:

Alberto Hernández.

Art direction:

María González Manteca.

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