view the rest of the comments
news
Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.
Rules:
-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --
-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --
-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --
-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --
-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--
-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--
-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --
-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --
If anything I'd go so far as to say that unipolarity is already over and it's been over for years. There is a coup government in Perú right now, with american boots on the ground. Chinese investment and soft power continues more or less unabated, and the only thing staying on the path of BRI's projects is that the peruvians want to lengthen the route of the transoceanic railway. SOUTHCOM complains about chinese ports, but the fact of the matter is that the US has no use for peruvian minerals or brazilian soybeans and the pull of chinese money is too strong even for a comprador elite. The clown president in Buenos Aires wishes he could throw his lot in with the Americans, but the trade realities mean that he can't and neither could the junta joke that ruled Brazil not long ago.
South America might be a particularly edge case example in my view, but the most normative one should be the existence of countries like India and Turkey. Not massively powerful or isolated, not defined by anti-americanism, and still playing at their own game, talking to everyone at once according to their own interest.
The 'Suez Canal moment' is often taken as the siren song of european hegemony, not because it is the perfect chronological moment where european imperial power ceased to exist, but because all of a sudden something that was beyond the pale was not only possible but felt only natural. It is nonetheless true that, at the same time, the european empires were both collapsing before losing the Suez and still exist to this day formally (for the french empire) and informally (for all the other empires). The greatest material change is that those neo-colonial empires were subsumed into the American one.
So TL;DR just as european multi-polarity gave way to Soviet-American bipolarity without entirely dismantling european structures of power, American unipolarity has already given way to defacto global multipolarity. Too many countries simply don't take marching orders from Washington. There are far too many opportunities to raise capital aside from just New York and London. High tech weapons systems have been commoditized to the point where many can be produced, in house, by the Yemenis. And there are too many countries at the periphery of the American Empire who cannot but engage in political and commercial relations with the Empire's enemies.
It is not healthy to try and see the future, however it is not for nothing that the former british prime minister feels that Ukraine is a new Suez Moment. Things changing and are changing very fast. New settlements need to be reached.