I’m one of those who DID know who what and where they were. I fought politically for the liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde half a century ago under the leadership of Cabral. After this World Cup I’m even more proud to have done so.
Multipolarity doesn't mean Western people will become poor.
It means they will become normal.
It means a Congolese engineer and a German engineer will negotiate on terms that reflect their actual value rather than the legacy of who colonized whom.
It means the dollar will be one currency among several rather than the rent the whole world pays to America for existing.
It means European countries will have to make foreign policy based on actual relationships rather than the assumption that their preferences automatically constitute the international consensus.
Normal.
The horror with which this prospect is greeted, the language of civilizational threat, of decline, of loss, tells you everything about how far from normal the current arrangement actually is.
And who it's normal for.
5 years of bloodshed in Ukraine and 12 years of war have already exhausted and discredited the very idea of NATO. If the alliance’s abstract future security requires the deaths of so many people today, then NATO has undermined itself as a credible organization meant to provide protection and defense.
@a_lshtshfum@marydejevsky@ChathamHouse Honestly, tbf to her, from what I’ve read, doesn’t even seem like the Russians were convinced they were going to invade even Feb 22.
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