The article celebrates the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. This is an opinion piece written by João Paulo Ventura, reflecting on the impact of these events over the past two and a half decades.
The author argues that, 25 years later, the international order remains marked by geopolitical chaos. Ventura highlights that the world currently faces an unprecedented peak of insecurity since World War II, suggesting that the effects of the September 11 attacks contributed to this prolonged instability.
The text does not present specific facts about the attacks or concrete details of their consequences, functioning rather as a general reflection on the state of the world a quarter of a century after the event. The opinion focuses on the deterioration of global security as a lasting legacy of those attacks.
