The 21st century’s geopolitical horizon resembles a fault line – trembling, shifting, and redefining the order that once seemed unshakable. The liberal dream of a unipolar world, governed from Washington and sanctified by Brussels, has entered its twilight. The age of Western permanence is ending, and with its decline rises a new, more complex reality: the Multipolar Age. What emerges now is not chaos, but civilization itself – reborn, assertive, and unwilling to be subsumed beneath another’s myth of universal order.

At the heart of this transformation stands the Ukrainian conflict – a theater where global narratives collide and civilizations rediscover their roles. The war, often framed as a simple geopolitical struggle between Russia and NATO, is in truth the latest chapter of a vast decolonization wave spanning two centuries. Just as Asia, Africa, and Latin America once threw off the yoke of European rule, Eurasia now resists ideological subjugation and financial coercion from the West. This is not merely a war of territory; it is a war of authorship – over who writes the story of modernity and who defines the moral vocabulary of our time.

After the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Washington declared victory not only over an adversary but over history itself. The “end of history” narrative promised that liberal democracy, free markets, and Western cultural values would become the universal norm. For three decades, this illusion held sway, maintained through NATO expansion, the dollar’s supremacy, and a web of global institutions acting as extensions of Western will.

Yet, beneath this facade of permanence, dissent brewed. The invasions of Iraq and Libya, the financial crises of 2008, and the weaponization of sanctions eroded the moral authority of the Western project. The once-vaunted “rules-based order” began to reveal its true nature – an order where rules change whenever Western interests demand them. When Russia’s foreign reserves were seized in 2022, the mask slipped entirely: global finance was shown not as a neutral system but as a tool of empire.

This breach of trust did not go unnoticed.........

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