A real counterweight to US power is a global necessity | Seumas Milne

Conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine will spread without effective restraint on western unilateralism

Where is the end of history now? Across three continents, conflicts are multiplying. An arc of war, foreign intervention and state breakdown stretches from Afghanistan to north Africa.

In Iraq and Syria, the so-called Islamic State mutant offspring of the war on terror is now the target of renewed US-led intervention. In Ukraine, thousands have died in the proxy fighting between Russian-backed rebels and the western-sponsored Kiev government. And in the far east, tensions between China, Japan and other US allies are growing.

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