Out of many, one

The global politics is complicated, sensitive, volatile, to say at least one step short of explosive. There are core changes.

The world that was based on the post WW II rules has failed and it’s no longer here. These rules were based on sovereignty of national borders and respect of cultural differences, entrusted for safekeeping to the UN and the Security Council. This world order was preserved throughout the Cold War, but even then it never kept to its founding principals and didn’t safekeep nations.

In the aftermath of the Cold War, the Western societies in the Global North kept their wealthiest status, regarded themselves as actual winners of the Cold War, and deemed themselves as the only real leaders in the free world. As most industrialized and technologically most advanced nations they enforced a rule based order, rules devised by them to suit them most. Rules which could be bent according to their will, despite any opposition. The world became unipolar and this shifted the decision making from the UN to other forums and theaters, like NATO and G7.

This act wasn’t accepted by the rest of the world composing of the Global South, and other powers which kept the status of world powers, despite their forfeit in the Cold War like Russia, and the new rising economic powerhouse of China. Since then, a quarter of a century has passed engulfed in turmoil, human suffering in wars, colossal economic migrant waves and since recently climate refugees.

Another forum was formed, BRICS, uniting the Global South and incorporating new financial institutions to counter the MMF and the World Bank, even new payment system to counter SWIFT. The trade between these countries is done with use of their own currencies, avoiding the use of global reserve currencies. Since its foundation BRICS grew into BRICS+ accepting new influential member nations from the Global South, gaining in financial and economic strength, and with it expanding political power.

Now world politics is multipolar, which basically means there are more centers of decision making. This reality is not acceptable by the Western world, and refuses to relinquish its control, which in fact is no longer theirs to control. Right now we’re witnessing civilization clash, filled only with a void of empathy. The greed of the old world doesn’t want to accept the obvious existence of the new one, and the new centers of decision making are trying to undermine any form of control by the Global North. This leads to conflicts which aren’t naive at all, like the one in Ukraine, the Middle East, Africa, and most recently Iran.

This friction threatens to ignite other hot spots, Taiwan, Kashmir, even more of Africa; increasing the probability of direct conflict which will very likely turn nuclear since the beginning. And this will mean the end of everything here on Earth.

Unless… deep within our fabric we reach for reason and wisdom to overcome our differences. With kindness and mutual respect our relations can only prosper. Our cultural differences are the wealth of the civilization. Humanity means all of this together, our emotional intelligence is vast.

Let's reach deep wthhin our hopes and dreams. 

Let’s have a good one year, and many more peaceful to come.