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I disagree. This is Russia we're talking about. The whole post-war western security policy was, in no small part based around Russia / USSR. Russia declaring w
by jmfldn 5y ago
I disagree. This is Russia we're talking about. The whole post-war western security policy was, in no small part based around Russia / USSR. Russia declaring war in Europe is a MAJOR event in European history whatever the outcome of this. It changes things geopolitically forever. This moment is at least as big as 1989. I suspect we'll look back on this later in the C21 as a major step towards a multipolar world, with China at the helm of one of those poles. That's super significant even if this war is just a chapter in that bigger story. Maybe the effect will be something else but this is part of a game-changing narrative playing itself out. I'm certain history is being written before our eyes.
- jjtheblunt 5y agoI wanted to say that i really respect all you responded, of course hope things don't turn out so dire, but agree every one of your points is entirely plausible. thanks for the thoughtful response.
- jmfldn 5y agoPerhaps it won't turn out dire but I think things will change a lot at the very least.
- pjc50 5y agoI don't think the world has ever not been multi-polar, although the poles change; while America had "top nation" power from the 1990s, it was never entirely hegemonic.
- jmfldn 5y agoIt's a question of the strength of the respective poles then. The Western pole of US / EU and its postwar institutions of the UN, IMF, NATO etc were pretty hegemonic I'd argue. Wasn't the war in Iraq and Afghanistan predicated on exporting our western liberal worldview as if it was inevitable that all countries would benefit from our system and actually want it. For all that Francis Fukayama's "End of History" was discredited, I think many in the west implicitly saw the world like that up until recently.