This title is suggested from a statement by Sergei Lavrov, one of the world’s well taken diplomats by the “thought complex” of the planet. Even if I am among those who participated in the revolution in Timisoara to release my country from the dictatorship inspired by Soviet inspiration, can I not putting in the balance which of the hegemonies are better? The Western world or the Global South? From the start, none. But the Trap of Thucydides, inspired by the Peloponnesian War, between Sparta, a city-state in decline, and Athens in full ascension. 

But let’s quote the words of the Russian foreign minister:

„The struggle for a multipolar world is a fight to the death, as the hegemon resorts to unrestrained aggression to preserve its predatory economic and financial order.”

An incredibly clear, poignant, yet shattering description of the current state of the world. The Russian Foreign Minister succinctly cuts through the fog of war with a precision like a razor-sharp knife, synthesizing the exact state of affairs. No other official, including Putin, would have been so precise, public. It is very encouraging that the strong players in the diplomatic arena see the nude reality. The diplomat who represents one of the teams, which faces for a position in the multipolarity of the world, cries like the child from the story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Andersen, shouting, “The emperor is naked!” in the perplexity of the audience, obliged not to recognize the truth. More specifically, the US does not want to give up hegemony, and the Global South, made up of BRICS member countries and not only, is fighting for the division of power with the strongest of the powerful.

The current wars are fought through proxies. Russia is fighting with the US through Ukraine, and the US with China, through Venezuela and Iran, the new Vietnam, probably the nightmare of the president who dreamed of being a nobelist.

When good kills, then there is no good, I was going to say in a recent podcast. The Western constellation is considered the supreme good, the only guiding light of the drifting countries. But since the advent of “rising-star economic” China, Washington is no longer sleeping and is launching catralions of firecrackers to mask the evidence: the collective West is in dissolution. It will be the same as the Western Roman Empire, collapsed not only by the invasion of barbarians, but also by its own arrogance.

Today’s hegemon triggers planetary terror to mask the evidence: the emperor is naked. There is nothing more to offer to a world that has consumed its prosperity and ignored that from the temple of self-sufficiency, someone has pulled the ladder and can only descend through a fall into the void.

Proxy-type warriors, that is, through intermediaries, go today not to recognize the Thucydides Trap, the ancient historian who understood well the origin of the conflict that lasted almost three decades, the exact period between the fall of the Iron Curtain and the infamous present of today, in which the most gallonated of the powers is also the most nervous.

Returning to Lavrov’s saying that “fighting for a multipolar world is a fight to the death,” it can be interpreted in different ways. Whether Russia and China will intervene in the process of decomposing the Western complex (not necessarily militarily) or will short-circuit the grueling Western world with a shortage of chips or energy crisis, to understand that Eastern wars can be fought without drones or missiles. It’s quite a Western blackout, and the world is drifting.

Sergei Lavrov’s statement is not that of a private or television analyst. He is, let’s not forget, the Russian foreign minister. Interpreting from an angular position, we could say that his statement is one of threat. But it’s not like that. Is it a philosophical saying? No thought. It expresses a well-known reality in the Western chancelleries, but it is publicly acknowledged: that the world of tomorrow will no longer be like today, and the jilt of power must be divided into three, just like an orange to children at a table.

There is also evidence. The West too trusted cardboard prophets such as Francis Fukuyama, who postulated in „The End of History and the Last Man” that the collapse of communism and the rise of Western liberal democracy mark the end of the ideological evolution of humanity and the final form of government. The professor argued with the ecstasy of the fall of the Iron Curtain that the ideas of democracy and capitalism are superior, universalizing and ending the great historical conflicts. It is only that the subsequent wars of the hegemon have demonstrated that interests are for domination, not for evangelical democratic customs, without substance, or forms, of which no one in other hemispheres is interested.

The hegemon keeps “its predatory economic and financial order,” also says Lavrov, which translates into the lack of any regular behavior on global markets. This, through the ricochet, imposes a violation of the rules and by others, reaching a chaos from which only investors win at the stock exchange.

A form of “unrestrained aggression” is visible today in Iran. An increasingly prominent world in the West believes that military strikes are democratic dressings and that hegemon missiles are not “the lights that enter man through a wound,” as Iranian poet Jalal al-Din Rumi wrote. 

The missiles of the forces of good are still killer tools, even if the propaganda makes Lavrov an equal of Putin.

By Marius Ghilezan