Valentin Radomirski is a career diplomat.

From 1976 to 1992, he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, moving through all the ranks from trainee-attache to minister plenipotentiary.

He was the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of our country in Romania and non-accredited ambassador in Moldova.

In the period 2005-2009, he was an adviser on foreign policy and national security in the office of the Prime Minister.

Co-founder and member of the Bulgarian Diplomatic Society.

Executive Director of the Institute of Economics and International Relations (IIMO).

For Bulgaria, this conflict must be resolved as soon as possible by diplomatic means.

This is required by our national interests, because it only brings us damage (economic, financial and stressful social), which can also turn into destructive military if, in defense of Euro-Atlantic values, we have to send our sons to fight for them in a non-NATO country .

Unfortunately, both nuclear superpowers are not bluffing.

They know best of all the consequences of using the nuclear arsenals at their disposal.

They also have the experience of the Cold War era with the then Caribbean crisis, for which it is already known that we were hours away from Armageddon.

Because of this, Biden is right that now, six decades later, we are closest to the point at which escalation becomes uncontrollable by politicians and the military.

Putin is also right when he said that he cannot imagine a world without the Russians.

What the two leaders said are warnings that the other side should not underestimate the readiness of its adversary to take measures that are disastrous for humanity.

showing that there is no such dialogue, or if there are any channels left, they do not enjoy the trust of Washington and Moscow.

It is of little comfort that, despite the threats, both countries, through senior government officials, have publicly declared that they oppose the use of nuclear weapons, even at the tactical level.

Fukuyama prophesied that there would be "centuries of boredom at the end of history".

Nothing could be further from the current situation.

At this stage, I see no signs of a de-escalation of geopolitical tensions.

There is no record of talks between Putin and Biden, and the Russian president recently refused to speak with Macron.

A glimmer of hope comes from the news that the US leader, who had said he would not attend the G20 meeting in Indonesia if Putin was there, is now still considering a trip to Jakarta.

We are at a stage where the West is defending the status quo it won after the collapse of the USSR and the European socialist system, and China, Russia, Iran and some other countries are looking for changes.

Financial capitalism as we have known it since the mid-1980s is ending and completely unsustainable.

Its end has been predicted by many (eg Lyndon LaRouche) who believe that global financial capitalism is a fundamental distortion of the principles of the US national entrepreneurial economy.

In Russia, Andrei Fursov also speaks and writes a lot on this topic.

The Dutch professor Case van der Peel points out that all the possibilities of this type of capitalism, which was actually connected with the collapse of the USSR, are no longer there.

And this leads to the collapse of globalization.

And, of course, the collapse of this most complex system causes a certain type of desire to take extraordinary measures to prevent a change in world leadership, to prevent Russia and China from taking leadership positions.

But this will not be possible after a nuclear (even tactical) strike.

Because even after it we will again find ourselves in a situation in which it is necessary to form a culture of peace.

And this is the main problem: what can be the culture of peace in these conditions, when some of the players in this situation have partially lost their minds?

The question of a culture of peace still remains because it is a fundamental question.

Because without a culture of peace, the existence of human civilization is impossible.

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Valentin Radomirski