Right here’s the important thing takeaway of those frantic days in Moscow: Regular-o-philes of the world, unite.
These have been frantic multipolar days on the capital of the multipolar world. I had the dignity to personally inform Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov that nearly the entire World South appeared to be represented in an auditorium of the Lomonosov innovation cluster on a Monday afternoon – a form of casual UN and in a number of facets far more efficient with regards to respecting the UN constitution. His eyes gleamed. Lavrov, greater than most, understands the true energy of the World Majority.
Moscow hosted a back-to-back multipolar convention plus the second assembly of the Worldwide Russophiles Motion (MIR, in its French acronym, which implies “world” in Russian). Taken collectively, the discussions and networking have provided auspicious hints on the constructing of a very consultant worldwide order – away from the agenda-imposed doom and gloom of single unipolar tradition and Ceaselessly Wars.
The opening plenary session within the first day fell underneath the star energy of Overseas Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova – whose fundamental message was crystal clear: “There can’t be freedom with out free will”, which may simply turn out to be the brand new collective World South motto. “Civilization-states” set the tone of the general dialogue – as they’re meticulously designing the blueprints of financial, technological and cultural improvement within the post-Western hegemonic world.
Professor of Worldwide Relations Zhang Weiwei at Fudan College’s China Institute in Shanghai summarized the 4 essential factors with regards to Beijing propelling its function as a “new unbiased pole.” That reads like a concise marker of the place we at the moment are:
- Underneath the unipolar order, all the things from {dollars} to laptop chips may be weaponized. Wars and shade revolutions are the norm.
- China has turn out to be the most important financial system on the planet by PPP; the most important commerce and industrial financial system; and it’s at the moment on the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
- China proposes a mannequin of “Unite and Prosper” as a substitute of a Western mannequin of “Divide and Rule”.
- The West tried to isolate Russia, however the World Majority sympathizes with Russia. Thus, the Collective West has been remoted by the World Relaxation.
Combating the “theo-political conflict”
“World Relaxation”, by the way, is a misnomer: World Majority is the secret. The identical applies to “golden billion”; people who revenue from the unipolar second, largely throughout the collective West and as comprador elites within the satraps, are at finest 200 million or so.
Monday afternoon in Moscow featured three parallel classes: on China and the multipolar world, the place the star was Professor Weiwei; on the post-hegemony West, underneath the title “Is it attainable to save lots of the European civilization?” – attended by a number of dissident Europeans, lecturers, suppose tankers, activists; and the principle deal with – that includes the frontline actors of multipolarity.
I had the dignity to average the superior World South session, which ran for over three hours – it may have been the entire day, really – and featured a number of gorgeous shows by a stellar solid of Africans, Latin Individuals and Asians, from Palestine to Venezuela, together with Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla.
That was the multipolar World South in full flight – as my crucial was to open the ground to as many individuals as attainable. Had been the organizers to launch a Best Hits of the shows, that would simply turn out to be a world hit.
Mandla Mandela emphasised the way it’s about time to maneuver away from the unipolar system dominated by the Hegemon, “which continues to assist Israel”.
That complemented Benin’s charismatic activist Kemi Seba – who brilliantly personifies the African management of the longer term. Within the plenary session, Seba launched a key idea – which begs to be developed all over the world: we live underneath a “theo-political conflict”.
That neatly summarizes the Western simultaneous Hybrid Battle on Islam, Shi’ism, Christian Orthodoxy, in truth each faith, other than the Woke Cult.
The subsequent day, the second congress of the Worldwide Russophiles motion provided three debate classes: essentially the most related was on – what else – “Informational and Hybrid Warfare”.
I had the dignity to share the stage with Maria Zakharova – and after my free jazz-style presentation, targeted on over 40 years of practising journalism throughout the planet and watching first-hand the utter degradation of the business, we carried a hopefully helpful dialogue on media and mushy energy.
My suggestion not solely to the Russian Overseas Ministry however to everybody all throughout the World South was simple: neglect about oligarchy-controlled legacy/mainstream media, it’s already useless. They don’t have anything related to say. The current and the longer term depend on social media; “different” – which isn’t different anymore, quite the opposite; and citizen media, to all of which, in fact, the best requirements of journalism needs to be utilized.
Within the night, earlier than everybody acquired all the way down to occasion arduous, just a few of us had been invited for an open, frank and enlightening working dinner with Overseas Minister Lavrov in one of many magnificent frescoed rooms of the Metropol Lodge, one the grand motels of Europe since 1905.
A legend with a depraved humorousness
Lavrov was relaxed, amongst associates; after an preliminary, gorgeous diplomatic tour de pressure which lined fairly just a few highlights of the current many years all the way in which to the present gloom and doom, he opened the desk to our questions, taking notes and answering every one in every of them intimately.
What’s so hanging when you find yourself nose to nose with essentially the most legendary diplomat on the planet for fairly a while, in a relaxed setting, is his real unhappiness when confronted with the fashion, intolerance and complete absence of essential thought exhibited particularly by the Europeans. That was way more related all through our dialog than the truth that U.S.-Russia relations are at an all-time low.
Lavrov although stays extremely pushed due to the World South/World Majority – and the Russian presidency of the BRICS this yr. He vastly praised Indian FM Jaishankar, and the excellent relations with China. He steered the Russophiles Motion ought to take a world function, playfully suggesting we must always all be a part of a “Regular-o-philes” motion.
Nicely, Lavrov The Legend can be identified for his depraved humorousness. And humor is best when it’s lethal critical. So right here’s the important thing takeaway of those frantic days in Moscow: Regular-o-philes of the world, unite.
