Every war we’ve seen so far this century, up to and including the current conflict in Ukraine, has been the bitter fruit of US foreign policy; policies that benefit the West’s war-profiteering plutocracy. Western elites want to blame Putin for every evil on Earth, but their inability to admit their own role in creating conflict betrays the myopic, insular hypocrisy of the Western polity.
They tell stories about supporting freedom and democracy that appeal to Western audiences but ring hollow abroad. US-led wars always entail pretexts that cannot withstand scrutiny. Today they tell us they’ve isolated Russia from the rest of the world with economic sanctions that hurt the West more. In truth they’re isolating the West from a world that won’t submit to US-dollar domination.
The countries supporting US-led sanctions against Russia include Australia, Britain, Canada, NZ, Japan and Western Europe. They call themselves the ‘international community’, but in fact represent less than fifteen per cent of the world’s population. Many more countries do not support the West’s economic war on Russia, including the most populous nations on Earth: China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Brazil.
The balance of power in the world is shifting, US influence is waning, and the consequences will offer Australia potentially transformative opportunities to reorient away from the exceptionalist, unipolar US-led ‘rules-based order’ and toward an equitable, democratic multipolar system, by adopting an independent foreign policy that fosters friendly relations with all nations.
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