The western world order is swiftly coming to an end. After WW2, it was a bi polar world with the USSR and USA. After the USSR collapsed it became a unipolar world for a while. Now it's reverting back to a multipolar world just like before WW1.
Ironically the US has pushed this into existence with what they have done with Ukraine and Russia. Sanctioning North Korea, Cuba, Iran is one thing but sanctioning Russia, I mean I'm sorry but that was a big shot in the foot. Russia and Iran alone are energy super powers. Iran has already proven that its impossible to sanction energy. You just give a 2% discount and countries line up.
Just think about this for a second, the US and its allies are now sanctioning about a third of humanity. When you sanction that many people you're essentially sanctioning yourself. Now that the world has seen what the US has done with Russia, you have Venezuela, China, Iran all joining into a SWIFT alternative. It's going to start out small but many countries will join even just to do business with Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and all those countries, I mean, it's worth it.
That's alot of countries and resources and energy and people. It's its own global financial network that you otherwise would not be able to conduct business with. Also the Yuan can be purchased in digital, encrypted form. I mean just as a contingency plan why not be part of it for most of the world the question is not why, its why not ? The Saudis and Emiratis are also sensing this. They have stated that they want to sell some of their oil in Chinese Yuan. The US dollar hegemony is ending.
Also just look at how at the UN security council the majority of humanity sided with Russia, not the west. Don't look at the number of countries, some countries have populations of 500,000 but they have one vote. A vote is a vote whether you're China or Micronesia but here's the thing, 60%of humanity chose not to side with the western cause on Ukraine.
Believe me, the Chinese are not stupid.They know that what the west is doing to Russia could happen to China when the west inevitably chooses to trigger Taiwan into independence and the Chinese will have no option but to act. So why not take precautions now ?
But it's not just about China. India and Pakistan are also a target now because they refuse to tow the line like vassals. Just look at what the Americans have already tried to do with Imran Khan. Also Indians have stated that they will do business with Russia in Rupees and Rubles. Btw the Ruble has been pegged to gold and has gained 90% of its value back against the US dollar. Also Russian energy will only be sold to Europe in Rubles and under Russian bank accounts.
There is no alternative on this literally the EU does not have the capacity to replace Russian gas with American LNG and it would cost hundreds of billions, the price of the LNG several times more. Also there simply aren't enough ships in the world to replace Russian gas in Europe with American LNG. The capacity would take 5 years to a decade at the very least just to build at the cost of potentially hundreds of billions, or the EU could just pay several times less and just buy cheaper Russian gas in Rubles.
Honestly when the US sanctioned Iran and it didn't really break Iran or bring Iran's oil sales to zero like they planned, that was also a turning point. The US and its allies still view themselves as exceptional and all powerful and might act as if its still their hay day but their hay day is long gone.
Look what the Taliban did to all of NATO in Afghanistan. That was also a turning point. It was an utter and total humiliation and wake up call. But of course the US can't accept it and after Afghanistan ended the US simply moved on to Ukraine and they're still planning on messing with Taiwan and China in the east China sea. So... I mean...
Think about it, the US in Afghanistan spend what 3 trillion and what did US taxpayers or the country get out of it. 3 TRILLION do you know how many hospitals, how many nuclear plants, Universities, they could have build high speed rail for the entire continent but instead they used it to enrich some already excessively wealthy, overly privileged defense contractors.
Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex but it's turned into a beast with 10 heads or something. He never could have imaged this. It's completely out of control and these policies are actually bleeding out, degrading and destroying the US from the inside out. Right now there is real poverty in the US. There are massive wealth gaps between rich and poor.
There are criminals, the largest prisons, drug addicts, open air drug markets with tents like you couldn't imagine. You can be going to 711 and u can randomly get shot in the head for your iphone. and don't try to deny it like it doesn't happen or can't happen because it happens to people in the United States. The US is the only industrialized country without universal healthcare and insulin costs 8 times more in the US than in Canada.
I mean let's be brutally honest here. Is the United States going to continue to thrive and dominate in a 2 decades when blacks and latinos are the majority ? I'm sorry I just don't see it. China is already set to surpass the US as the worlds largest economy and then after a few decades it'll be India if they can manage to get their population under control or find a way to feed themselves.
Anyways, welcome to the multipolar world. It wouldn't have happened as quickly if the US had not targeted Russia the way it did but now believe me now the world is changing. Some people will never let go of their old world mentality and they will just stick to what they know but no matter what the world is changing whether you like it or not.
China has only recently came to power. So the jury is out on how it would rule versus the US. Even though today China is quite powerful it is still able to be sanctioned. Something that was made quite clear if it supplied Russia with arms.
US can wage any war without retribution of sanctions. Who will sanction it? EU? Canada? Australia? Japan? Almost all major economies give US a blank check to do what it wants. This makes starting wars quite easy when you have no worry about what the world will think.
China does not have this luxury and likely never will as long as Western world order leads this world. So it has to play its cards much more shrewdly and win over countries differently.
There is no nation that can stand up to the US ? Yes except for the US itself. Look at what the Taliban did in Afghanistan. A bunch of rag tag cavemen with rusty AKs and bicycles.
Honestly what did the US gain out of Afghanistan after 20 years and 3 trillion dollars ? Do you realize what 3 trillion dollars could have build ?
How many hospitals, how much healthcare, how many Universities. Honestly they might have been able to find the cure to Cancer with that funding. Imagine the scientific institutions they could have built. Imagine they could have linked up all of America with cheap and inexpensive high speed rail.
Right now something like 70% of the worlds high speed rail is in China. The US is just a money making machine for elites at the very top. However the middle class is largely becoming extinct as time passes.
This level of corruption and control by the banksters (wall street) and the military industrial complex is just too much of a toxic mixture. It's slowly but surely draining the US. In a few years now China's GDP will surpass that of the US.
A government is supposed to have its peoples best interests at heart but that's not how the US operates. Instead you have the US government having the wealthy elites best interests at heart.
We didn't even have a railway until Reza Shah built one in the 1950s, meanwhile the US had already completed the Empire State building decades earlier, built strategic bombers , subway system and an atomic bomb by then.
Iran has come a long way since and so we should have reasonable expectations that one side is more powerful economically and militarily than the other by many magnitudes.