We are clearly witnessing history in the making, as the Western Zionist dominated post-WWII order is in a state of inexorable decline, with new nations and powers fast emerging.
Thus let’s consider the following chain of events.
1. Venezuela: President Nicolas Maduro wins the elections, whilst defeating Edmundo Gonzales, the US-CIA backed candidate. Major victory for the Bolivarian Socialist legacy of Hugo Chavez and the People’s Revolution.
As expected, US Secretary of State, Blinken has targeted this election, but nobody trusts or takes the US seriously. All US-CIA attempts to foment colour revolutions in Venezuela have miserably failed and the current one underway will meet a similar fate. The US sanctions regime on Venezuela has harmed the economy, but yet the Maduro government has implemented various policies to nationalise Venezuela’s abundant Oil Resources, and undertake the redistribution of wealth to the most marginalised and poor. It is they, the Chavismos, who constutue the real support base of the revolution. The legacy of Hugo Chavez lives on in Maduro!
Thus the Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary shift across Latin America continues to grow stronger.
2. Beijing: Recently, the Chinese government invited 14 Palestinian factions. The agenda was to unite the Palestinian freedom movement under the banner of the PLO, as the sole representative of the Palestinian people. Both Hamas & Fatah, the 2 largest parties agreed to a negotiated settlement. This Chinese initiative will strengthen the Palestinian cause and make it far more difficult for Israel & the US, to manipulate and divide the Palestinian leadership.
More important, China has also emphasised the urgent need to stop the genocide, to bring an end to the Holocaust of the Palestinian people, as well as for the International community to resolve the long pending issue with the establishment of a Palestinian state as per UN resolutions and international law. The politico-strategic footprint of China in the Middle-East is increasing.
3. China had earlier brought Iran & Saudi Arabia together, which has only further strengthened West Asian unity, whilst reducing the space for the US, Israel and the other Euro Vassal states to meddle in the region and play their age old “Divide & Rule Card”.
4. Russia works out a solution between Syria & Turkey. Both President Bashar al Assad & Erdogan are scheduled to meet in Moscow, to sign on a negotiated settlement. This constitutes a major breakthrough and both Russia & Iran have used their diplomatic skills to bring an end to the 12-year old Syria-Turkish conflict.
This is a major victory for Syria, which has now faced the combined might of the US (Obama, Trump, Biden), Israel, UK, France, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, but has withstood and yet stands steadfast and strong. Syria has been integrated back into the Arab League, and will soon be joining BRICS Plus. Certain European nations have begun to reach out as well.
5. Italy has restored full diplomatic ties with Syria. This will further undermine the US-Israel-Nato war on Syria.
6. The Italian PM Giorgia Meloni visits China & signs a 3-year agreement. The agenda is to attract Chinese investment and cooperate in the Chinese-led BRI & OBOR, thus laying the foundations for greater trade and economic cooperation along the ancient Silk Road trade routes linking China, and the Central Asian countries to Europe.
7. BRICS: During the recent visit of the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavorv, to Malaysia, PM Anwar Ibrahim applied for membership to the BRICS Plus. Malaysia is an ASEAN powerhouse and thus the presence of BRICS Plus will expand in South-East Asia.
In the BRICS Plus conference scheduled to be held in Kazan, Russia, in October 2024, many more nations will be joining BRICS Plus, which will emerge far stronger in GDP terms than the G7, which increasingly looks passe’. A comprehensive economic plan will be unveiled wherein the disastrous impact of the weaponisation of US sanctions, too will be neutralised. An alternate to the SWIFT Banking system, as well as trade in national currencies, thus bypassing the US Dollar is very much on the cards.
8. On the Russia vs Ukraine-US-NATO War: Increasingly voices are emerging in the West, especially within Europe, as well as the US, that the war against Russia is unsustainable, that they have failed in their plan in using Ukraine as a Trojan Horse to surround, lay siege, destroy and balkanise Russia. The Eastern European Slavic countries, namely Belarus, Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia & Georgia are increasingly vocal, as they can see the embers of the war reaching their nations & thus want a negotiated settlement. In fact, there is great unrest across all of Europe. There are increasingly voices within the US & other Western capitals as well.
Russia has stopped the forces of US-NATO expansionist hegemonic plan in its tracks. This also constitutes a major defeat for the Neocon Judeo-Zionist genocidal warmongers who control various Western capitals, namely Washington DC, London, Paris & Berlin, amongst others.
9. Russia has also signed a major Gas Pipeline deal with Iran, which will be routed across the Caspian Sea. This will transform Iran into an even greater Energy Power. India stands to benefit from this pipeline, which can be easily accessed via the Chabhar Port, where again, India is a stakeholder.
10. Palestine: The world stands witness as Israel, backed by the US and its Euro-NATO vassal states are busy fomenting wars, and committing a Holocaust in Gaza. The world will never forget the fact that Netanyahu, the War Criminal, was applauded multiple times by a servile US House. According to a research paper published in the Lancet, more than 1,86,000 Palestinians have lost their lives in this genocidal war, with now the numbers reaching 200,000. All in a matter of the last 10 months, in a scale that is unprecedented.
The Axis of Resistance, namely Palestine, the Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran & the Ansarallah of Yemen now constitute a powerful alliance, as they fight the last war of independence, to liberate their region from the talons of Israel & the US.
Needless to say, the egregious hypocrisy of the so-called ‘Rules Based Order’, or rather, ‘The No-Rules Based Order of Chaos & Disorder’, is evident. This is leading to their utter isolation on the world stage, evident in the voting patterns at the UN.
10. Whilst the collective West, continues down its neocolonial path, the trio of Russia, Iran and China, the primary pillars of Eurasian integration, are engaged in major global political, diplomatic, economic & geostrategic initiatives, all which are strengthening the Global Majority, the real international community.
The Global Balance of Power is indiscernibly and rapidly, shifting towards the East, towards the Global South, towards the Global Majority.
It’s only a matter of time.
Feroze Mithiborwala is Founder, National Gen. Sec., India Palestine Solidarity Forum
