When the Soviet Union finally collapsed in the 1990s, followed by the end of the Cold War, it was a moment for celebrations in Western World. But, it was a historic disappointment for developing countries, and Global South in general. That is because the world had lost the balance of power. There was a need for multipolar equibrillium to safeguard international peace and security. With Soviet Union as a counterweight to USA, it guaranteed a check and balance of power against USA hegemony and spheres of influence in many corners of the globe.
Now the rise of China as a major economic and military superpower power in the Southeast Asia is about to shakeup the old Western dominated economic construct and architecture with new challenges to USA sponsored financial instruments, including the US dollar. Russia is set to come back as a major power in world affairs. Moreover, Washington is unable to play China and Russia against each other as it did during the Cold War. If there is a silver lining in the raging Ukraine War, it brought Russia and China closer together, creating uneasiness or even alarm in Western capitals. To make their headaches even more severe, the creation of BRICS Block (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and other important countries now joining in) constitutes an existential threat to the economic and military domination of Western World, the so-called the “New World Order”. American dominated World Bank and IMF, their financial clearing houses and SWIFT Code could be an experience of the past soon. Already, BRICS are launching inter-trade and monetary transactions among the block members, doing away the financial instruments of the West, including VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS and other credit cards, replacing them with brand new BRICS cards.
Paradoxically, the genocidal war in the Gaza Stripe of Palestine has exposed the double standard and hypocritical nature of “Western World Order” on human rights, freedom of expression, self-determination and justice.
Now USA and its allies (in fact satellite states) have no any standing of moral high ground left to lecture on democracy, “Rule-based World Order” or fundamental human freedoms, given their role in the Gaza Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity- a mass slaughter of children, women and elderly in daylight before the eyes of the human race with USA lethal weapons of war, 2000kg bombs that smash whole neighbourhoods of schools, hospitals, shelters for war displaced persons and nursery homes. These barbaric war campaigns against defenceless people make the very existence of the United Nations and its Security Council irrelevant and shameless in the “Western Rule-based World Order”.
Further on BRICS, please read this article by Chinese Network:
https://www.kbc.co.ke/xi-jinping-putin-meet-in-kazan-russia/
Warsame Policy & Media Network (WAPMEN) 