![]() Russia and China benefit from the conflict in Gaza because it keeps the attention of the world - and in particular the US - focused on the Middle East and allows them to pursue their agendas without major interference: Russia sees the possibility of winning the day in Ukraine closer, while China continues its expansionism in the South China Sea punctuated by conflicts with coastal states such as the Philippines and Vietnam, not to mention Taiwan. The problem is that this rewards the aggressor, whose troops still occupy 23% of Ukraine's territory. The result is less aid in arms and money in a climate of growing "war fatigue" on the part of the West, while the current stalemate in the war will increase calls for a negotiated solution to end the fighting. To begin with, the Gaza conflict impacts on the Ukrainian war in at least two ways: firstly, because it takes it off the front page of the newspapers and the opening of the news to send it to a third row unimaginable before October 7, and secondly because with this loss of attention the commitment to its cause is weakened -whether we want it or not-, which also goes into the background. ![]() One might think that the eternal quarrel between Israelis and Palestinians is something new (unless you remember David and Goliath) and something confined to the narrow geographical limits of the old Palestine, but nothing could be further from the truth because its consequences reverberate in the rest of the world.
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