I need to add something more to my previous post, which you will need to have usefully read before reading this.
It has not always been this way. This is something new. A change in the paradigm. We should take note. Serious note.
It used to be that the west could legitimately, though not deservedly, be in charge of global affairs. On the face of it they had the power, the industry, the military, the wealth, the control mechanisms. At least to a major extent, it appeared that way and no-one would think to challenge the aggressive format. Not because the west was actually any more powerful than the rest of the world. They were always a minute percentage of the global population. And their basis of power lie only in their ability to control the economic direction of other nations following the end of the 1939-45 World War. Their military was no better that that of other nations. It never was. Russia had just proven who had the best military in its at least 80% defeat of German nazi forces in their own homeland and across Europe. Then additionally, in August 1945, Russia was instrumental in the looming defeat (solo again, and in not much more than two weeks of effort) of the Imperial Japanese forces in South East Asia. Russia had been invited to that campaign by the US, due to the enfeebling of their own forces through costly island hopping adventures across the Pacific. In fact, Russia was amassing an invasion fleet on the coast of China opposite Japan,l for the purpose of a marine landing to finish the job, just before the US took an unthinkable alternative route to finish first. That is inarguable, and recorded as history. It is the main reason why a frantic and fear driven use of Nuclear weaponry on Japan by the US ‘heroes’ took place in order to prevent Russia from being able to claim defeat of this second Fascist regime then troubling the world in a separate theatre of operation which had been under almost exclusive US control from the outset. A result which would leave the US with no claim to victory at all in that era. Argue your way around that, I dare you. It is the main reason for, again undeniable, western efforts in recent times, to write Russia out of the history of the period. That will not happen. Russia will not allow it to happen. And Russia is very likely to outlast the US in longevity. Because there is change in the air. Quite rightly, no-one believes anything the west says any more.
A ‘change’, what is that ‘change’? It is now that, what could once be labelled ‘the Rest of the World’, is organising itself and at the same time is growing in power to far exceed that of the fast diminishing west. I am not going to write about that. You can see it happening all around you. What was once called ‘the Third World’, after the self-styled ‘Old World’ of the Imperialist European nations (a title never legitimately taken – the real ‘old world’ was far older than they ever were), and only gaining meaning after the formation of the ‘New World’ of the Americas. Both ‘Old’ and ‘New’ are now crashing to oblivion and infamy, due mainly to their own ignominious actions. On the other hand, rising up, you could say from third to top spot, are the nations of the rest of the world. These nations are joined, though not together as a bloc. They maintain their own independence and sovereignty, but are joining in unity of purpose, for mutual strength and benefit. A process not yet complete but in advancing progress. And they are, even now, more than a match, in all fields of endeavour, for the west, which is still clinging vainly to its long held concept of leading by aggressive global dominance. The west does not have a chance, now or ever, to achieve that which they have long desired.
So, this is what we now have. A different group presides over world affairs. Decisions once made in Washington, London, and a few other centres of power, and effecting world events, are now made in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Islamabad, and a few other places where from time to time where the newly forming global majority may meet in joint discussion. The west is nowhere to be seen. Irrelevant. Powerless to intervene, or thwart. Iran rules its own waters, including the Strait of Hormuz. Trump’s laughable attempt to blockade is actually meaningless and will soon disperse to preserve a modicum of dignity for his outdated navy.
Democracy? Don’t make me laugh! The concept has never worked. Or perhaps has never been allowed to work. Especially in the west, where the pervading practice has been something else entirely, conveniently disguised as democracy. Not that democracy does not have good exemplars. Take China and Russia. No, really. I’m serious. Have you even read about them. But the best way is to allow individual nations to develop as they choose – the way BRICS is et up – to form a multipolar world.
Better get used to multipolarity (or multinodalism) as the guiding future. Wherever you live.
It is the future …and it is looking bright (once the lingering clouds of today have been dispersed).
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