Loops magazine said that Western countries are gravely wrong in dividing the world into a democratic camp and an authoritarian camp, and that it is time to offer countries that do not consider themselves part of either camp a more equitable system for the world.
The magazine explained in an article written by Pierre Haski that considering the battle for global supremacy that is taking place now to be a simple confrontation between two blocs, the democracy camp versus the tyranny camp, is a grave mistake, because there is a third player representing the rest of the world, and he does not find himself in either camp.
The writer confirmed that there is indeed a Western world that reaffirmed its values and solidarity in a new transatlantic declaration published on the sidelines of the anniversary celebrations of the Normandy landings, and there is a camp that wants to turn the tables in its favor and is represented by China and Russia, and in the second circle there is North Korea and Iran, and the magazine “Foreign Affairs” describes them. America’s axis of “chaos” instead of the “axis of evil” that the American administration called it during the era of the “unwise” George W. Bush.
But this is not enough to describe the more complex world of the 2020s, where the vast majority of countries that fall under the name “Global South” refuse to be hostage to this bilateral confrontation, and the Western mistake is to push them into the arms of the “axis of chaos,” according to the writer.
Western blindness and arrogance are evident in the disparate handling of today’s two major conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. Since the “Russian invasion” in February 2022, Westerners have not understood why the major southern countries are reluctant to condemn Russia’s violation of international law and how India, the Arab world, Brazil and Africa have not followed suit in… Sanctions on Moscow.
Leave the double standards behind
If the West needs an explanation for this, all it has to do is look at the “violence” in the Middle East and the injustice that the Palestinians have been subjected to for decades without anyone suffering from them. It is an injustice that the United Nations has acknowledged without any of its resolutions being implemented, and an attack will not erase it. October.
As for the solution – as the writer sees it – it begins by clearly moving away from the “double standards” highlighted by the current wars for everyone with two eyes, and the West will not enjoy credibility unless it supports international law in all cases, not just against its opponents, when the US Congress imposes sanctions on the International Criminal Court Because it threatens Israel after it was applauded when it accused Russian President Vladimir Putin, we do not follow the path.
If the West needs an explanation for the distance of others from it, all it has to do is look at the violence in the Middle East and the injustice that the Palestinians have been subjected to for decades without anyone suffering from them, an injustice that the United Nations has acknowledged without any of its resolutions being implemented.
Pierre Haski concluded that a “new deal” must be proposed to the “Southern countries” by adopting a new, more equitable system for the world, because the confrontation between “democracy” and “tyranny” ends with preserving the international order that was established in 1945, at a time when the world was The colonialists were dominant, and two-thirds of humanity did not have the right to express themselves.
With this confrontation, we will have widened the deep gap between the dominant world of yesterday and the wretched of the earth who have become forces that matter today, which means that there is an urgent need to re-correct the situation of the world without sacrificing the values that were reaffirmed on the shores of Normandy, but by inventing new structures. And new global balances that are more just and respectful of the diversity of this world.
