Why is that?
The world public is taking note of how more and more people are being killed by weapons and hunger, and how Israel can announce even greater severity. The UN Secretary-General has been talking about genocide for years—and nothing is being done to stop it. How are we supposed to continue if we have to accept such things and no one knows how or where improvement can come from?
For politically minded people, the development of the war in Gaza requires the development of unfamiliar political categories—at least, they seem necessary to me.
In my opinion, the term „multipolarity“ should be understood realistically.
Some people understand the characteristics of today’s global system something like this: through the emergence of a clear countervailing power, namely the BRICS complex of states gathered around China, the arbitrary power of Western imperialism will gradually be limited, and more peaceful times are on the horizon.
The facts from Gaza, supplemented by Israel’s recent military raids in Iran and other countries, seem to me to indicate that the unrest in the entire region is increasing and becoming more widespread. Of course, we have long been accustomed to the fact that the region’s regimes, such as those in Saudi Arabia and the other „oil states,“ but also in Egypt and Iran itself, are incapable of, or unwilling to, do anything beyond verbal protest. The same applies to the fact that the US continues to finance Israel and cooperate in armaments and warfare; and also that Germany, for example, is reliably on board. But nothing is coming from the BRICS side either – one can assume, however, that the wild chaos from Libya to Iran, with Israel at its center, has long been used by China to quietly expand its influence in the region.
Multipolarity seems to me to mean nothing more than that one of the two „poles“ cannot or will not do anything in the face of the mass-murdering arbitrariness of the other, the US-dominated „Western world,“ and lets things take their course. Perhaps this is the calculation: the more destruction the West wreaks, the more likely we are to acquire parts of its ruined empire. In the long run, it could also happen the other way around, but I see little evidence that open, widespread military force currently has a comparable significance in the BRICS region.
The UN Secretary-General’s statements on Gaza, in my opinion, reflect this strange kind of international power-sharing. He must verbally condemn Israel because the vast majority of countries condemn it, but nothing further can follow politically from it, because China-BRICS remains closely intertwined and entangled with the western part of the global system—just consider the enormous capital-based interdependence between China and the US, which has so far remained unchanged despite all declarations of intent to the contrary. This is just one example, albeit a particularly significant one. Perhaps it is conceptually difficult for people who are accustomed to traditional categories such as nation-state, democracy, and international law and who are reluctant to acknowledge how little they actually are, at least for now.
The US, the EU, China, Russia, and other BRICS states such as India and Brazil, despite and during all the wars they are waging, some of them among themselves, such as in Ukraine or in the Middle East, constantly sit together at conference tables and discuss dystopian systems of population control, in which all these regimes have a primary interest. Examples include digital central bank money and the abolition of cash; biometric digital recording of every citizen’s movement; future WHO pandemic and vaccination regimes over the heads of national governments…
They are always conflicting about territorial conflicts, however, such as in Ukraine or Africa, and increasingly also in Eastern and Central Europe, namely in Germany, one of the war zones already declared in advance. But all the regimes involved also share a fundamental common interest and cooperation: the oppression and control of the masses. All the major players are structured along capitalist, oligarchic, and anti-democratic lines, whether they call themselves the USA, China, Russia, or whatever, and they share a common interest in defending such outdated systems with which they burden, harass, and kill humanity. That’s why we’re supposed to get used to mass murder and displacement like in Gaza—more will follow elsewhere—and think we have to accept everything. At the moment, it seems difficult to imagine how things could be different. That will change.
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