Western Hegemony is Ending

The 500-year-long dominance of the West is coming to an end, being replaced by “a new polycentric world”, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said Sunday in a video address to the Doha Forum.

 

[Note: The West, is essentially, the United States and its allies].

 

New centers of economic growth and political influence have been emerging, “changing the balance of power in the world, and not to the West’s liking”, he further said.

 

“In order to suppress this kind of development”, the US and its allies have “sacrificed” globalization in favor of the so-called ‘rules-based world order’, Lavrov (right) elaborated. “The rules were never published, were never even announced by anyone to anyone, and they are being applied depending on what exactly the West needs at a particular moment of modern history”.

 

The FM said that such an approach is most seen in the many conflicts, which "the West ignites all over the world”, including the one in Ukraine. 

 

“Everything goes to keep the hegemony. Intervention in domestic affairs, sanctions against all the principles of competition, regime change, and of course direct military interventions, like we have seen in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and elsewhere”.

 

“Is there a single place where the US intervened with military force, where life has become better? I think you know the answer”, Lavrov told the forum participants. 

 

According to the diplomat, new formats like BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, ASEAN, African Union, and others will become “the bricks of the new polycentric world”.