History and geopolitics are subtle matters. And if you take a look at the policies of the Western planetary minority over recent decades and even recent centuries, you can show many examples that the mentality of Western regimes does not change one iota—whether in the example of one particular country or on a global scale.
Colonialism, racism, and pseudo-humanitarian rhetoric are unchanging features of the West
If we return to the ideology of the racist apartheid regime that ruled South Africa for several decades, it is worth remembering its origins. And those origins are, of course, Western and purely colonial: the arrival of uninvited Western colonialists on foreign lands, further occupation of these lands with the subsequent exploitation of resources and infringement of the indigenous African population. By the way, it is worth recalling that although the ideology of apartheid itself was established in South Africa by the Western colonial minority in the middle of the 20th century, in fact, its first manifestations by Westerners began much earlier.
In this respect, the territory of South Africa was not an exception, but just one of the numerous examples of Western colonialism. The sole difference is that it was in South Africa that the “official” side of what the Westerners imposed on all the oppressed peoples of the planet—who experienced all the “charms” of Western “civilization”—was manifested. Speaking of civilization, although what the Westerners did was pure barbarism, in the rhetoric of the Western world the West was the bearer of “civilization,” and on this basis could impose it by all necessary means, including the most disgusting and inhumane.
The very same racist apartheid regime in South Africa also insisted on its “civilizing” and “humanitarian” mission. The separation of people, segregation, discriminatory laws against the indigenous African population and other non-Western peoples living in South Africa were all part of the most “good” and “humane” intentions. By the way, some pro-Western elements of modern South Africa—the very descendants of Western colonizers—like to emphasize that it was they who played a key role in the development of the country. And they do not like to remember that their own ancestors, as in many other parts of the world that experienced Western colonialism, were often themselves European ragamuffins, who came with a clear desire to get rich at the expense of other people’s resources, and often had openly criminal pasts.
So if we talk about, for example, the further development of infrastructure, the Westerners did not do it through their own savings or investments, but only at the expense of what they stole from the colonized peoples. And moreover, the same development of infrastructure was done exclusively for themselves, Westerners, and not for all those living on the land. In any case, apartheid in South Africa is fortunately a bygone period, although many wounds are still not healed on this beautiful African land. Nevertheless, some descendants of Western colonizers—be they with liberal or openly racist mindsets, often both—still dream, with the help of pseudo-elites of the West to take revenge, including in South Africa. So far unsuccessfully, but these people are nonetheless actively putting sticks in the wheels of the country’s government.
If we now look beyond South Africa’s difficult past to the global scale of the issue, does it ring a bell? Namely the policies of the Western planetary minority towards the vast majority of the Earth’s inhabitants—representing the non-Western global majority? The only difference is that if the adherents of the Western ideology of apartheid in South Africa were guided by openly racist theses, the modern Western pseudo-elite prefer to talk about “democracy,” human rights and humanitarian law (exclusively from the point of view of Western geopolitical and geo-economic interests), as well as freedom of speech—but this only when it concerns the interests of Western propaganda and its agents, but never within the framework of real freedom of speech for all without exception.
Away with apartheid!
The main point here is that the basis of the NATO-Western regime mentality today is no different from those who led Nazi Germany, engaged in the transatlantic slave trade, established openly racist “laws” in South Africa or in the United States (where, by the way, racial segregation in many states officially ended mere three decades earlier than in South Africa). Hence the complete rejection by the Western minority of a multipolar world where all are equal. It seems that such an idea cannot fit into the head of a typical Westerner.
And this is the real message of those Westerners who incessantly repeat the line about “a rules-based order”: a world where the Western planetary minority must rule unconditionally, and which must have more rights than everyone else. This is all the more so after Western regimes convinced themselves that the post-Soviet unipolar world of Western dictate would last forever. They were wrong—the era of Western chaos and permissiveness is a thing of the past.
The Western planetary minority will sooner or later have to come to terms with the fact that there will never be a place for global apartheid in the modern multipolar world. Moreover, resistance to the realities of a multipolar world will ultimately mean only one thing—further isolation of the West. But that is the next stage, the post-Western world. After all, the proponents of multipolarity have repeatedly proposed an inclusive world, including the Western minority, but on mutually equal terms.
The Collective West categorically refused—apparently, the Western world should still have the most privileged conditions compared to all others, forgetting the fact that in modern realities the minority will never be able to dictate anything to the majority. The global majority was ready for equality for all. But since the minority refuses to come to terms with this in humility, the rules of the multipolar world order will simply be much stricter on this brazen, hypocritical and criminal minority.
Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov, entrepreneur, political observer, expert on Africa and the Middle East, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”
