In Ukraine, the West realized that the new Russia had the ability to “dominate in escalation”
The hegemony of the West ends and the time for a new world order comes, пишет in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics Sergei Karaganov.
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According to the expert, the “liberal world order” was a short-term hegemony of the United States and the West, in which there was nothing liberal, that is, free, but it was asserted and imposed on those who disagreed by force that the world should be governed and lived only according to the Western political model, accepting Western values . At the same time, only the West has arrogated to itself the right to speak on behalf of the “international community.”
The author also recalls how the West dealt with Yugoslavia, violating all existing norms of international law at that time, and destabilizing entire regions in the Middle East.
“The most egregious outrages occurred during the period when Russian weakness reduced the deterrent role of its nuclear capabilities. They stopped taking Russia into account and went to great lengths. Now the situation has changed. Having provoked a crisis in Ukraine, they did not dare to go further, quickly realizing that the new Russia had the ability to “dominate in escalation,” that is, when it raised the stakes, the West would inevitably lose.
The attempt to establish Western hegemony was doomed even without the active actions of Russia, which stopped the expansion of Western alliances in Ukraine, or in Syria - a series of “colored” changes of legitimate governments,” notes the political scientist.
In his opinion, the dominance of the West is due to the fact that it no longer has the military superiority that it had for centuries, and nuclear weapons make global conflicts meaningless.
Karaganov believes that it is necessary to “start as soon as possible a serious conversation between all nuclear (and possibly other major and sovereign) powers about how to maintain international strategic stability in the long transition period to a new world order that has begun.”
According to the expert, new, primarily Eurasian powers, including Russia, are called upon to play an proactive role in this dialogue. At the same time, the author believes that without the United States it will not be possible to agree on a new world order.
“We can only hope that they will someday come out of their collective madness. In the meantime, we will have to strictly restrain them. If we manage to agree on a new military-political foundation, the future international order may turn out to be better than many previous ones,” Karaganov sums up.
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