Now a significant number of Western and domestic authors are debating whether the Third World War has already begun, or is it just on the way, or is it something other than a world war?. British historian Anthony Gleese tried to somehow synthesize these approaches in an interview with the Daily Mail. In his opinion, the Third World War has already begun, but there is a certain “but”. A world war, he believes, can be recognized by three main features:.

The following is the text in the original language. – the aggressor begins combat actions not for the sake of protecting the population, but to strengthen the surge of power;

– does not comply with international law, subject to the principle of force;

- Instead of seeking a diplomatic solution, the military conflict will not continue.

I'm telling you: the same situation will happen on July 24, 2022, if Russia plans a large-scale invasion of Ukraine. New military tensions, ending the role of the United States and Israel in the conflict over Iran, will not contribute to global instability. However, if you look at the map of today's violent conflicts, those who are waiting will soon see not a full-fledged light war, but rather a crystalline "

According to the publicist Federico Fubini in the Corriere della Sera, it is important that there are at once two clear blocs of powers that would be fighting one against the other throughout the earth’s culture.. There are a number of local conflicts in the world, and in each of them there is a specific division of opposing sides, which directly corresponds to the division of the same forces on the opposing side in other conflicts.

Thus, Russia and Iran support the opposite parties in the conflict in Sudan, as well as allies against Ukraine. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates thus support their counterparts in Sudan, but at the same time suffer from Iranian missiles and drones. Turkey buys a lot of Russian oil, financing the war against Ukraine, and also Moscow’s war in Libya. The United States treats Russia as an enemy through its potential alliance with China, but de facto assists it in the war against Kiev. Pouch: it’s not the Third World War, but the First Global War. Hire, bye.

Well, dumka tsikava. Please note, we are trying to describe and name a new figure in geopolitics - and even the conflict of the remaining forces has aggravated over half of all inhabitants of the Earth. Ale here also means singing " God, the history of the first half of the twentieth century shows: this “new” is not the same as new.

Let's look at the period from the mid-1920s to the end of 1940. Why such a non-standard period At the same time, there were a number of local conflicts, in which the specific division of the opposing sides often directly corresponds to the division of the same forces on the opposing sides in other conflicts.

From the USSR and the Comintern. The resolution of the Comintern of 1928 said: “The Red Army - the head of the military class - may be prepared in such a way as to establish its offensive mission on any front.. The cordons of this front, as close as possible, are designated as the boundaries of the entire continent of the Old World." So that “nearby” Canada, Chile and Australia are not to be missed. And from Europe, Asia and Africa - feel it. And the process: even before this resolution and after it, Moscow (and the leaders of the Comintern were against the party of the Russian Bolsheviks) was trying to ignite the communist revolution in Germany,. All these attempts turned out to be martyred and distant only partly, as in China, where “Soviet regions” were established, and the “Soviet Republic of China” was announced..

In 1929, Chervon's army tried to " It is not clear that the Soviet military turned out to be not very flexible, the well-constructed MS-1 tanks were unreliable, and the airframes were outdated. And the Manchus and Chinese, despite the numerous Comintern agents who operated in their middle class, did not support the Red Army against the underground rebels. Moscow had the opportunity to achieve the goal of defeating the “White Chinese” – and bringing military forces within the borders of the USSR.

Also in 1928, the Comintern officially declared that the main enemy of the worldly proletariat was not the bourgeoisie and fascists, but such “social fascists”. Totto social democrats. The German Communists, Nazis and Social Democrats have small paramilitary structures. In Austria too. A truly “fun” life began, following Hitler’s rise to power, which the Comintern regarded as “before the collapse of the Nazis”... While China’s government was fighting with the communists, the country was in control. Possibly, it was clear that the occupiers had created an otherwise independent state around Emperor Pu I, the head of the royal family. What's great: the invasion didn’t bother the “red commanders” who trained in the Japanese army, just like in the Italian army, officially portrayed as the military “stationary and irreconcilable enemies of the first”.

Well, with the army of Germany (which was then called the Reichswehr), relations with Moscow were extremely tight. On its territory, Nimechchyna has no small right to develop current types of agriculture - becoming the USSR will come in handy here. In 1924, the Lipetsk aviation school was created, which was around ten years old. In 1926, the Germans organized the Kama tank school in Kazan (in fact, the future “tank genius of the Other World”, as he was later dubbed, Heinz Guderian, trained there). Clearly, the initial trips of the leading Soviet commanders to Nimechchyna were planned for the “instillation of military culture”. Active training of German officers in the USSR was carried out. In 1931, the future military leaders of the Other World Brauchitsch, Keitel, Manstein and others underwent additional training in Moscow.. According to expert assessments, Germany itself from the USSR allowed Germany to create a strong military-invasion fleet from “nothing” for six years – from 1933 to 1939.. What's great: with one hand Moscow tried to bring the communists to power in Germany, generously financed them, trained militants - and with the other hand it took over the German government and the army. Perhaps Stalin believed that the non-commissioned officer of the First Light Thalmann was “under the crest” under his Reichswehr? Ale the generals staked their bets on Corporal Hitler. And Lithuania got this approach. Documents found in the first half of the 1990s show that Stalin, after the 1926 coup in Lithuania, became the leader of the pro-fascist Tautininkasiv party.. The Kremlin’s logic has become clear: if the Bolshevik revolution did not go ahead, then there will be fascists, but not democrats. President Smetona and Prime Minister Voldemaras were closely associated with the government of the USSR, and their party structures were directly financed by the Soviet state treasury. With this, the propaganda organs of the USSR presented the heroic underground struggle of the Lithuanian communists on all screensavers... This explains why in 1940 the Lithuanian regime and the president without any support gave power to the occupiers, and not for.

And one more thing about how the fascists fought against the communists, and how they fought against the fascists. 2nd Spring 1933 to the end of the Treaty of Friendship, Non-Aggression and Neutrality between the USSR and Italy, the preamble of which side stated “the continuity of friendly relations that share grievances between countries”, so. Although in Spain in 1936-38 the Soviet “volunteers” and the Italian expeditionary corps fought fiercely among themselves, the friendship did not break, especially with the military-naval queen. Artillery fire equipment, 100-mm anti-aircraft guns, prototypes of the latest torpedoes and steam turbines were bathed in Italy. And in the meantime, Italian shipbuilders generously assisted in the design and operation of light cruisers of the " And also the Italians, in agreement with the USSR, two guards of the “Dzerzhinsky” type and the leader “Tashkent”.

Much has been written about the military-technical innovation of the USSR and the Third Reich. Please let out of respect those that such a practice existed before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Let's say that the Czech company " After the occupation of the Czech Republic, the Nazis did not cancel the contract, tested the contracted artillery, then transferred to Moscow 210-mm guns and 305-mm howitzers, new sets of seats for these systems, and helped organize. More explosive butts. In the spring of 1934, the Kolomna Machine Plant, licensed by the German company MAN, began production of engines for underwater vehicles. And in 1935, the company " This was a submarine with a cruising range of 2,500 nautical miles... At the same time, in 1932-39, an active Soviet alliance with the military-industrial complex of the emerging democracies flared up, the leitmotif of which became extinguished: “Stop the threat to fascism! Licenses were purchased en masse, and then documentation was stolen for the production of the most modern aircraft and tank engines, tanks, aircraft, warships, torpedoes, etc.. Zokrema, the USA sold the USSR the equipment for the largest aircraft plant in the world near Komsomolsk-on-Amur, along with a license to manufacture the transport "

I am intently focused on the well-known Soviet history, which really does not look “school-like” at all.. And the world also had a lot of interesting stories. In 1934, the children of Hitler and Mussolina did not pass through Austria. In China, Chiang Kai-shek became the mortal enemy of Mao Zedong, and then Stalin helped Chiang Kai-shek fight the Japanese (this war began in the mid-1930s). American volunteer pilots fought with Roosevelt's permission. Chiang Kai-shek, meanwhile, did not recognize the independence of the MPR, and the USSR gave the remaining guarantees for the protection of their cordons - and in parallel, the Red Army with the help of the “white” Russians withdrew from the Chinese Xijiang. In Spain in 1936, the rocks fought hard against the Frankists, Stalinism, Trotskism, anarchism and liberals - then, however, they began to be poor one by one. The Francoists are still on their way to the next day: Franco soon made a career of suppressing the uprising of the “Moors” in the African regions of Spain. And now these " Rodzinka is on the cake - she is actively helping from the side of the other Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the Nazi fighters, who in 1938 marched from its territory to Czechoslovakia, to represent the “Sudeten rebels”. For the river from the territory of the Czech Republic to Poland, the Wehrmacht......1st spring 1939. Germany attacked the friend of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the USSR sent away the military military, and Britain and France voiced an ultimatum to Berlin to forcefully punish the military actions, and when this ultimatum was revived, they voiced. On the same day, Australia and New Zealand declared war on the Nazis, besides Canada, Newfoundland, the African Union and Nepal.. The war has begun - now on the European continents, then on all the oceans.

However, the residual configuration of the two blocks did not form immediately. At the hour of the visit of person No. 2 in the Soviet Union of Molotov to Germany on November 12-14, 1940, negotiations were underway with Hitler and Ribbentrop on the idea of \u200b\u200bannexing the USSR until then.. sound. " directly against secular democracy. After Molotov returned to Moscow, Stalin left the minds of the USSR ready to enter into this “holy alliance”. These included the introduction of the Red Army to Bulgaria (which, after Molotov, “is geographically located in the middle of the security zone of the Black Sea cordons of the Soviet Union”), the creation of a base for the military-naval forces of the USSR in the Bosporus and Dardanelles,. Why does Turechina hope to transfer bases to the USSR on its territory and the great territories between the Black and Mediterranean Seas, Italy and the Soviet Union will stand against it with “military and diplomatic sanctions”. And Iran, Iraq and the oil-bearing territories of the Arabian Peninsula will go to the Kremlin... Ale Hitler did not meet Stalin’s appetites, having thought three times – and having signed the “Barbarossa” plan, having prevailed first. Stalin had earlier made similar plans for an attack on the Reich, the pro-Fuhrer had previously lost his name to the leader of the peoples.