Pakistan, Jan. 13 -- What the world is witnessing right from the beginning of 2026 is not isolated incidents or happenings, but rather a web of interconnected flashpoints. There is a pattern in all happenings, the US military's operations in Venezuela, the potential settlement in Ukraine, the ongoing fights in Yemen, Syria, and Afghanistan, and the escalating tensions with Iran.

These events are related by the same causes: fierce competition for resources and strategic chokepoints, the emergence of proxy warfare, the use of regime instability, and the broader struggle for power in a deteriorating unipolar order. To understand this pattern, one needs to see through the Great Power Competition ( GPC) paradigm.

This realist paradigm demons...