The world is experiencing its “First Global War.” A global war is a conflict that impacts and involves everyone, albeit the armed confrontation is limited to confrontations in specific areas and between specific warring factions, in which the globalized world participates. It is a generalized conflict in which there is no neutrality, it is a conflagration from which none of the States is excluded. It started with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and now it has two active fronts; Ukraine and the Gaza Strip.
Following up on the features of the First and Second World Wars of the 20th century, a World War is a confrontation that -in the armed fight- involves all or the great majority of nations of the world, great powers included, with generalized mobilization and a state of total war. In both a Global War and a World War, all of the nations of the world are involved, but in the Global War, the armed fighting is limited to specific countries or groups in determined territories with repercussions impacting the whole world.
Neutrality is “not taking sides and renouncing all meddling in a conflict” but apparently the globalized world seems unable to provide this option. For there to be neutrality, international law requires the “non-participation” and the “impartiality” regarding the armed conflict. The armed, direct non-participation, is a feature of the Global War, but all actors participate with other; economic, political, social, communicational, and international, actions.
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