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Honor and Loyalty : Caught between peace and war : the dilemma of Nations

Missile cruises at all altitudes, artillery salvos, rattling assault rifles, offensives, counter-offensives, evasion, and unexpected switch of positions on every front.

Certainly the reality on the ground is dazzling, especially accompanied by elements of aggressive and grandiloquent language.

After a few weeks of tranquility, the world finally has its new high-intensity conflict; a very hot war, the kind that had been thought to have disappeared, following the extinction of the other so-called cold war.

However, such stance was a mere pipe dream, certainly intended to calm the apprehensions of those on whom hitherto weighed the terror of the struggle for influence between two antagonistic blocs.

The long-awaited peace, the much heralded peace, only lasted the time of a speech.

In fact, since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the proclamation of the advent of multipolarity, war has never flourished as much, with fault lines constantly multiplying, shifting and fluctuating according to the assertion of sovereignties that are very often in struggle, with growing, resurgent or emerging hegemonies.

This is the world’s misfortune, and above all the misfortune of Africa, a major stake in these power tussles, tussles in which hundreds and thousands of human lives are involved, sacrificed, like pawns on a chessboard, in the name of geostrategic positioning ambitions of players from elsewhere.

Thus, from its eastern to its western borders, from the Mediterranean to the Great Lakes passing through the Gulf of Guinea, our continent is a breeding groundforcountless unstructured, scattered conflicts, complacently described as low-intensity conflicts. Perhaps they are of low intensity, but these conflicts are so persistent in space and time that they are said to be snubbed, or even forgotten. This is a logical assessment, in the sense thatwhilebringing pleasure and treasuretothe gun dealers, too eager to replenish the arsenals in permanent destocking, we can dare to forget the daily tragedy of millions of men, women and children thrown in heterogeneous col