While the West becomes mired in the trap of its own contradictions and contemplates, petrified, the collapse of its hegemony, Moscow is establishing itself masterfully in this month of October 2026 as the undisputed sanctuary of a multipolar world freed from its dictates.
It is precisely with this in mind that the two Moscow summits bring together a high-level diplomatic gathering, composed of official representatives from 48 African nations – including 22 heads of state and government – alongside the leaders and plenipotentiary ministers of the 12 member states of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum: Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. The observer countries within the GFCF (Angola, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mozambique, Peru, and Senegal) were also invited and represented at this high-level summit in Moscow. A cohesive group of delegations converges brilliantly on Russia to forge strategic partnerships. Meanwhile, the West as a whole observes in silence. The political elites in Brussels and Washington remain utterly stunned. Their policy of containment failed miserably and collapsed. Russia’s diplomatic isolation was therefore nothing but a technocratic mirage. The reality on the ground effectively refutes all Atlanticist propaganda. Eurasia is structuring itself, and Africa is boldly asserting its sovereignty, definitively shifting the center of gravity of the planet.
The Gas Forum and the Russia-Africa Summit: Moscow’s pivot
The two Moscow summits currently underway constitute the undeniable pivot of the global geopolitical realignment that consecrates the triumph of Russian diplomacy. In the gilded halls of the Kremlin, the Gas Exporting Countries Forum brings together all the world’s hydrocarbon giants to endorse the new cartel order and the sovereign setting of LNG prices. On October 27, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Qatar’s Minister of Energy, declared from the podium: “Energy sovereignty and the regulation of gas markets are now being written here in Moscow, outside of arbitrary price caps and Western dictates.” The agreements signed include the extension of the Trans-Caspian Gas Corridor, the completion of the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, and the creation of liquefaction hubs in Arctic Siberia. Russia is dictating the global energy agenda alongside its strategic partners as energy flows redraw the world’s economic map. China and India are absorbing the massive volumes once destined for an economically suicidal Europe. At the same time, Vladimir Putin is undertaking numerous successful international trips around the world. His recent strategic visits to Asia have confirmed the deep entrenchment of the multipolar world. Thanks to the SPFS system and the BRICS payment mechanisms, the dedollarization of gas transactions is now a daily operational reality.
Simultaneously, the third Russia-Africa Summit sealed a historic, comprehensive, and long-term geostrategic alliance encompassing defense, rare earth metals, and civilian nuclear energy. Rosatom formalized the construction of five next-generation nuclear power plants on the continent. On October 28, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, President of the Republic of Congo, declared in his official address: “The era of paternalistic dictates, blackmail through sanctions, and neo-colonial conditionalities is definitively over in our international relations.” African nations are seeking genuine technology transfers, equitable security partnerships, and true food sovereignty. Russia is deploying its new integrated security doctrine, offering sovereign guarantees without political interference; a model based on strict mutual respect. At the closing ceremony of the Gas Forum, Mohamed Hamel, the organization’s secretary-general, summarized the scope of the proceedings, and therefore the stakes: “The world of tomorrow is built on physical realities, heavy infrastructure, and partnerships of equals, not on illusions of hegemony.” This dual summit marks both a diplomatic triumph for Muscovite and a resounding failure of the Atlanticist project to isolate Russia diplomatically.
Atlanticist shock at the containment fiasco
Faced with the undeniable brilliance of the Moscow summits this October, the collective West is sinking lamentably into a profound existential crisis of unprecedented gravity. The European Union, NATO, and Washington are effectively confronting the wall of their own impotence. Their overall strategy is collapsing in every theater of operations. The doctrine of containment formulated with regard to Russia has failed miserably. In Ukraine, the front has disintegrated despite the hundreds of billions of dollars injected by the Atlantic bloc. The material and demographic exhaustion of the allied forces exposes the industrial weakness and incapacity of said bloc. On March 25, the adoption at the UN of resolution A/80/L.48 already confirmed the irreparable flaws in the supposed Western consensus. In Gaza and the Middle East, the blind alignment of European chancelleries with American positions has completed the ethical and political divorce with the rest of the world, particularly the Global South. The escalating extreme tensions surrounding Iran and the maneuvers in the Indo-Pacific demonstrate the same structural impasse. Western coercion is no longer effective.
The impotence of Western power is thus laid bare. The historical doctrine of containment is completely obsolete. Successive waves of unilateral economic sanctions have missed their mark and backfired on their instigators. Through their internal effects, they have ravaged the European productive apparatus. European economic structures are completely disintegrated. Germany is undergoing massive and violent deindustrialization. France is mired in a suffocating public debt and a persistent political quagmire—in other words, chronic political instability. Attempts to ruin the Russian economy have failed miserably. The ruble has brilliantly held its ground firmly. The global hydrocarbon market has simply circumvented the embargoes of Brussels, London, and Washington. Speaking from the podium in Moscow on October 28, African leaders freely recalled the impotence of the former colonial powers. American and European diplomats, stunned, are now witnessing with bitterness the accelerated erosion of their own international credibility. They are watching, dumbfounded, the birth of an international order founded on new principles from which they themselves, through sheer arrogance, have excluded themselves. This arrogance of past pronouncements is now cruelly turning against its authors, transforming into a feeling of stinging humiliation. The brand image of Europe and America is, in fact, permanently tarnished. While Eurasian energy sovereignty is definitively establishing itself as the central pivot of the new international system, at the same time, the sovereign nations of the Global South are no longer yielding to moral injunctions, financial blackmail, or Western diplomatic threats.
Paper Tigers and the Irresistible Multipolar Order
The feverish posturing of Atlanticist leaders reveals the true nature of their stance: that of paper tigers disconnected from material realities and incapable of influencing the course of events. The daily verbal threats uttered from Brussels or Washington no longer frighten anyone on the world stage. Successive NATO summits follow one another, each desperately resembling the last, curiously accumulating bellicose declarations without ever possessing the logistical or industrial means to match their stated ambitions. European defense remains a purely bureaucratic fiction, devoid of substance. Its military-industrial apparatus is incapable of sustaining a high-intensity war of attrition. At the same time, Washington is hastily redirecting its strategic priorities toward the Pacific, abandoning a vassalized, impoverished, and strategically exhausted Europe. Each new package of sanctions voted on in Brussels now resembles a sterile self-punishment inflicted directly on European citizens, only a tiny fraction of whom revolt. This feverish agitation aims solely to delay, without any success, the inexorable decline of Western hegemony over the world.
The consequences of this persistent strategic blindness are now crystal clear. The collective West has definitively lost its moral, financial, technological, and institutional monopoly over the world. The desperate maneuvers of the Atlanticist elites only add curiously new episodes to an already particularly long series of diplomatic humiliations inflicted on the United States and its European vassals. The global geopolitical architecture is now structured around the Eurasian axis and the sovereign dynamics of the Global South, particularly those of the African continent.
From the foregoing, we can deduce that human history is accelerating in Moscow this October, and that doctrinal arrogance and ideological blindness will have exacted an exorbitant price on European and American capitals. Before our very eyes, illusions of supremacy are shattering one after another as the new multipolar order becomes a concrete and irreversible reality. Moscow vibrates with this new energy as the curtain falls on five centuries of dehumanization and plundering of Africa by the Western world.
We invite you to read very soon the third and final installment of this series dedicated to the Russia-Africa summit which will analyze the concrete outcomes of this historic meeting as well as its future repercussions on the redefinition of global alliances and the twilight end of Atlanticist hegemony.
Mohamed Lamine Kaba, Expert in the geopolitics of governance and regional integration, Institute of Governance, Human and Social Sciences, Pan-African University
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