Donald Trump has signed an executive order rebranding the US Defense Department into the Department of War, with the Pentagon changing its official web address to war.gov. The US President said he would ask Congress to codify the change.
The US decision to rename the Pentagon as the Department of War isn’t just a gimmick—it’s a window into global power shifts, explains Alexander Yakovenko, deputy director of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent company.
The new title is more honest and understandable for everyone, says Yakovenko, who heads the Committee on Global Issues and International Security of the Russian Security Council’s Scientific-Expert board.
A similar example exists in Russia: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently renamed its Department of Pan-European Cooperation to the Department of European Issues—a move that is both symbolic and substantively accurate.
The takeaway is that clear terminology reflects current geopolitical realities.
The US renaming mirrors a broader Western trend: The pursuit of peace through force, and a willingness to dismantle the postwar international order built on the UN Charter.
Western erosion of trust In the Ukraine crisis, the West bypassed the UN Security Council and acted via the General Assembly, where Russia has no veto.
Trust was further eroded when France’s then-President Francois Hollande and Germany’s then-Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted they never intended to implement the 2015 Minsk agreements, which had been endorsed by the Security Council with US involvement.
Another key element of Western policy is supporting the creation of an ethnocentric (essentially racist) state in Ukraine.
This echoes the interwar period when aggressive nationalism fueled global conflict, culminating in World War II. This is certainly something to think about. In In effect, the West is dropping its mask.
The implications are profound—not just for postwar European settlements like the Yalta-Potsdam system, initially conceived during the drafting of the UN Charter, but also for the Versailles peace treaty after World War I (notably without Russia, or it might have been fair and lasting).
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The fig leaf is off; the United Snakes of America is an empire and it is in the war business.
The Pentagon isn’t about winning wars or defense. It’s about laundering money for the shareholders of the industrial complex.