ISSUE #110: The old mindset of the US empire threatens the world.
The world will never know peace as long as a sole nation rules the world.
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As opposed to what the corporate media tell us, Russia is not a threat to global peace, nor is China, nor is any country you’re told to hate. It’s not even a nuclear war. I can imagine the reaction on your face but for nuclear war to break out, there has to be some trigger, and that trigger is what threatens the world more than anything.
That trigger is nothing but the old mindest of the declining US empire struggling to maintain the unipolar hegemony it once had. “We run the world.” “The world has to follow our dictates.” “There can be no one like us.”
Considering the past 250 years, there was nothing wrong with keeping this mindset because the West lead the world in almost everything during that period. The Anglo-Saxon world, which started with the British Empire and now the US empire, developed far more quickly and efficiently than anyone could have imagined, thanks to the Industrial Revolution that came to the Western world first. Now whether that development was fair or unfair - that we all know, but there is no denying the fact that the West - in other words, G7 and EU - was superior to every other part of the world.
But what the US empire fails to understand is that the world today is unlike the world of the 18th, 19th, or even 20th century. After the 1950s, when many countries gained independence from European colonialism, a seed of a multipolar world was sowed because the independent countries could finally invest their resources back onto their people and strengthen themselves, unlike under the British empire.
The rise of the USSR showed that a multipolar world is possible, but multipolarity threatens the unipolar hegemon in a similar way a lion would threaten a gazelle. But the USSR was just one country, and it was not difficult for the US - a country with the most efficient propaganda machine and hundreds of years of industrialization - to take down a newly emerging superpower and in the end, it did.
But this time, it’s different.
The 21st century is not about just one country threatening the unipolar world of the US empire, it’s about the Global South rising together and bringing us closer to what’s imperative for a peaceful world - multipolarity.
The rise of BRICS, which is not a country but a block of countries, shows us that the countries no longer need to be a puppet of the US empire to function. All they have to do is come together, work together, and develop pathways that are not patrolled by the unipolar hegemon.
Putin proposing the creation of an "international reserve currency based on the basket of currencies of our countries" at the recent BRICS summit is a sign of how the constant effort is being put into transitioning the world away from the hegemonic US dollar, which is one of the finest weapons of the US empire to keep the dissent in check.
Economies outside the influence of the US empire are rising to prominence and the US is still subscribed to its old mindset that it “runs the world,” which is kind of silly because the US is just around 4% of the entire human species in a big, diversified world.
It’s because of their old mindset and the rise of the global south that we are closer to nuclear annihilation than at any time in human history.
The rise of the countries that do not bow down to the imperial agendas of the global imperialist is a threat to the world where power is distributed unevenly to the benefit of the hegemon. Therefore, the empire has to do anything in its power to thwart the rise of anti-imperialist alliances. Once you understand this, you understand why the US military is encircling the planet, you understand why the US works continually to strengthen its stranglehold over the global economic and financial systems, and you understand why the rise of China is called “a threat” in the West.
As Chomsky said, "What exactly is the 'China threat'? The 'China threat' is China's existence. The US will not tolerate the existence of a state that cannot be intimidated."
An egoistic unipolarist empire with nuclear weapons is as dangerous to the entire human species as a cornered wild animal with sharp teeth and nails is to a hunter. The only difference is in the former case, a lot more is at stake; a planet’s worth of power is at stake. If a multipolar world becomes the reality, the US will no longer be able to force other sovereign countries into submission, the US will no longer be able to plunder other countries, and the US will no longer be able to do whatever it wants without facing any consequences.
That’s why, in an attempt to maintain unipolarity, the US doesn’t hesitate to provoke two nuclear-armed nations and ignore diplomacy while creating war tensions around the world because force is the only way a unipolar world can be maintained.
If you take a look at the current geopolitical scenario, the world has started showing its unwillingness to keep following the dictates of the unipolar empire. The US pressured every single nation to sanction and condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, but the majority of the world said NO. On the contrary, many countries boosted their trade with Russia with India and China being the two examples. Still, we are told that the “international community” condemns Russia as if G7 alone represents the international community.
It’s natural to say, “Why don’t the US choose to work in cooperation with China or Russia so that everyone can benefit?” but that’s not how an imperialist hegemon behaves. It behaves only in those ways that ensure its survival, which, by default, is not possible if it chooses diplomacy over weaponry. That’s why, instead of preventing the war in Ukraine with diplomacy, the US chose to provoke the war and try to do the same in Taiwan.
Both these crises have pushed us closer to the urgent threat humanity faces today: a nuclear war. All because of the US empire’s unwillingness to admit that it no longer “runs the world.”
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