Therefore, superpowers seek to support the rival party to the superpower in any crisis through covert military, economic, and political support in order to exhaust the superpower that is fighting the weaker state.
Let us begin by analyzing each crisis, starting with the oldest: the Palestinian cause. Israeli encroachment, supported by the US, on the primary Arab cause has become a one-sided issue that remains stuck without a solution, at the expense of the Palestinians' right to establish their state.
As for the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, which began in the last decade and escalated into the Russian-Ukrainian war since February 2022, it remains stuck without a solution; moving on to the American-Iranian crisis since the beginning of this year, which has reached a dead end with a likely American strike on Iran, and finally the Taiwan crisis.
Strategic experts know that all these crises cannot be solved by using military force, and there will be no winner or loser. The reason is that the global balance between the three superpowers—the United States, Russia, and China—must not be disturbed anywhere in the world, because any change on the ground would disrupt these balances. The military, political, and economic interests of these countries around the world are an integral part of their national security.
Therefore, so that superpowers do not lose their prestige in the eyes of the world and resort to winning any battle even by using prohibited weapons, they must not be allowed to act alone in a regional war with other countries. Other superpowers will not stand idly by to see their military and economic victory or their encirclement and encroachment, so they continue to support them in secret to the last breath.
The solution to the American-Iranian crisis must be achieved by having the superpowers sit at one table to end this crisis, which is intertwined with the other three crises. All four crises must be solved radically in a way that guarantees everyone's interests and offers concessions that will naturally be in the interest of the weaker states in the conflict. This will be an opportunity to save the global economy and rescue the economies of other countries that have been affected by these crises without compensation due to the encroachment of the superpower that is a party to the crisis.
Director of the Hopkins Center for Strategic Studies.
