The US is no longer able to impose its will onto others like it did during the climax of the brief unipolar moment immediately after the end of the Old Cold War because rising multipolar Great Powers like India refuse to unilaterally concede on issues that they regard as being in their objective national interests….
The Indian leader was subtly conveying his government’s view that China is already a developed country with similar socio-economic metrics as its Western counterparts. By tacitly denying recognition of China’s self-identification as a developing country, not to mention its claim to being the largest one, India is sending a signal to the rest of the…
South Africa has proven that it’s truly a major country with an independent foreign policy that always keeps its options open and never closes them to anyone. BRICS-member South Africa practices a policy of principled neutrality towards the Ukrainian Conflict whereby it neither supports nor opposes any of the combatants. Instead, just like the vast…
By its very nature, the Golden Billion divides the international community into a rigid US-determined hierarchy whereby vassals who do its bidding are afforded certain “privileges” (or at least the promise and/or perception thereof in the eyes of their population) while the rest are ruthlessly pressured to submit to its demands. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov…
This schizophrenic policy shows that the US still doesn’t respect India as the international equal that it is under international law but instead considers it to be a vassal-in-waiting that its policymakers are convinced will inevitably submit to their unipolar hegemony if they just continue pressuring it. The influential Congressional Research Service (CRS) just published…
The West and Egypt want their TPLF proxies to punish Ethiopia for its rising global role as recognized by the BRICS countries and especially Russia, Prime Minister Abiy decisively avoiding war with Sudan earlier this summer, and Addis’ third filling of GERD. The TPLF unsurprisingly launched another terrorist offensive in northern Ethiopia after being resupplied…
