From time to time, the world pours into the abyss and slows down the impulse to love. There have been times when it looked like the planet might commit suicide. One of the moments when the Earth was about to blow up was in the missile crisis, in the middle of the cold war. It was on October 27, 1962, on the so-called Black Saturday, when John F. Kennedy was about to order an air attack on Cuba, when one of his spy planes discovered the existence of Soviet missiles in the territory cuban The answer would have been the counterattack with the nuclear weapons that the Soviet commander in Havana had under his control. Fortunately, the red phone between Moscow and Washington worked at the last moment and Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev agreed to negotiate an exit. The clearest proof that the crisis was saved at the last minute is that the president of the United States had written the speech addressed to the Americans in case the third world war broke out. The draft of the text can be found in the archives of the presidential library in Boston.
The great powers have decided to return to the cold war and we are experiencing another such moment that the world does not deserve. Fortunately, President Joe Biden managed, with the mediation of Turkey, that Iran’s response to Israel’s attack on its consulate in Damascus, in which a senior general was killed, be delayed in order to counter – its effects.
Israel counted, apart from its defenses, on the collaboration of combat aircraft from the United States, the United Kingdom and Jordan so that Iran could save face, without causing significant damage. The problem is not over, because Israel wants to respond to the launch of drones and missiles over its airspace, although the White House has already warned it that it does not want a war with Tehran.
Nelson Mandela said that it is not enough to want peace, but to believe in it. But peace has lost prestige as a concept. The world needs an intellectual rather than an armament rearmament in favor of peace. Either we put a stop to this madness or sooner or later the dinosaurs will populate the Earth again.
