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When tectonic plates move, they press against each other, they produce tension and eventually bring about either earthquakes or eruptions of volcanoes. Figuratively, in international relations, national interests are such tectonic plates. Such tectonic plates are also the interests of supra- or international entities. They naturally have different interests, these interests conflict and produce tensions, and in due time tensions erupt in social turmoil or military conflicts: nations against nations, organizations against organizations, organizations against nations. We have been recently seeing a series of such eruptions. The pressure that the collective West brought to bear against Russia erupted in the Russo-Ukrainian war, in point of fact a proxy war between the West and the Russian Federation. The pressure that globalists exerted on Western societies in that they sought to deconstruct and reconstruct social conduct, tradition and custom, resulted in the political earthquake in the United States, where Donald Trump, a representative of anti-globalists, has been elected president and has put an end to the madness that has enveloped American society.
Contemporary tectonic changes are only comparable to those at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, when the Soviet Union collapsed, the eastern political bloc of the so-called socialist countries shook off its Soviet harness, when the Warsaw Pact dissolved and NATO began to expand eastwards. Still earlier, the Second World War was such an epic change, preceded by World War One, preceded by the Napoleonic Wars and the French Revolution, preceded by the Thirty Years’ War… Each of those planetary events would cancel the ruling international order and introduce new order that would last a few decades to be inevitably replaced by yet another change, yet another set of rules by which international players attempted to play the game of politics.
What are the changes that we are witnessing nowadays? First, globalists seem to have been defeated. Whether temporarily or for good remains to be seen. As for now, they have been defeated in China when the Shanghai-based communist pro-American (i.e. pro-globalist) faction was foiled in its plans; they have been defeated in Russia, where President Vladimir Putin has been keeping a firm grip on the Russian state, and hindered the process of subjugation of the country to the Western oligarchs; lastly, they have been defeated in the United States, where Donald Trump rallied anti-globalist forces among the powerful and among much of the American citizenry.
Second, the world dominated by the United States and the countries gathered under G7 – the so-called unipolar world – is disintegrating. There emerge two other powerful players: Russia and China, with the so-called global south – India, Brazil, Indonesia – being on the rise. Some of the countries of the Third World – also politely referred to as emerging economies – are about to economically threaten and surpass the old colonial powers because…
…third, the former colonial powers acting under the umbrella of the European Union have become irrelevant within the last two-three years. Due to the de-industrialization of Germany, due to the devastating woke ideology, due to the policy of ethnic replacement, and, lastly, due to the harebrained crusade against Russia, the Old Continent has put itself out of the equation of international policy making. Talks that are held between Americans and Russians are no longer taking place in Vienna or Paris, in Helsinki or Geneva, that is in places where the talks between the United States and the Soviet Union used to be held: they are taking place in Saudi Arabia. To make things worse for the pretentious European Union, European top leaders like France’s President Macron, Germany’s Chancellor März, United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Starmer or EU’s leader von der Leyen have not even been invited nor are they consulted on anything of importance. Merely three years earlier Europeans dreamed – nay – were sure that they would bring Russia to its knees and put Vladimir Putin on trial like they put on trial Slobodan Milošević. For three years Ukraine’s President Zelensky was showered with praises and honours while the red carpet was rolled out before him wherever he set his foot in Europe or the United States. Today? Today for Washington he is a persona non grata. European leaders, while making believe that they want to continue the war effort and support Zelensky, in their heart of hearts, left by Washington to their own devices, are helpless and powerless. They are putting a brave face on a lost game. These are, tectonic changes, indeed.
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