The “Rules-Based International Order” was born out of the ash heap of WW2 with the United States being the sole great power whose homeland wasn’t revenged by the dark hand of war. Other former great powers recognized this, being that their nations were in ruins. So, they voluntarily transferred the bulk of their wealth into the United States. In addition, the former great powers agreed to make the US Dollar the world’s one reserve currency in 1944, since so much gold flowed into the United States…
The US enjoyed this unipolar hegemony for about 3 years until the Soviet Union recognized that with the US, it was their way or the highway. The USSR was a massive nation, but was not industrialized enough nor had the wealth to match the US. The USSR and its Warsaw Pact were a formidable military foe to the US and NATO. This Cold War lasted for 42 years until 1991 when the USSR collapsed because of its stagnant Communist economic system. The US also convinced the Saudi-led GCC to tank the price of crude oil in 1985, which slowly choked off the Soviet economy. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved and the USSR eventually collapsed at the delight of the US and NATO…
The 15 former republics of the USSR were nations in shambles economically. The US enjoyed absolute unipolar hegemony from 1991 to 2022. Not only was US military unipolar hegemony unquestioned, but its economic, political, and media hegemony was also total. American hegemony grew so powerful, it was able to place itself in a different class where it flaunted and ignored International Law, yet chastised other nations who were in the “Global South”, or unfriendly to it. The US was actually allowed to invade other countries, killing millions of innocent people without even being questioned. When the International Criminal Court questioned or accused the US, American government officials viciously attacked the ICC. Any nation who did not yee or haw to the US’s every whim during this time period was slapped with economic sanctions…
Leaders during this time period of US drunkenness from 1991-2022 were either used then thrown away, or just murdered. This was no more evident than the overthrow and hanging of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 2006, the regime change of longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, and the funding of rebels and NATO airstrikes to overthrow and murder Libyan Brotherly Leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. These leaders tried to resist the United States. They tried, and they died…
RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE
The Russian Federation is the first great power since 1945 to openly challenge the US and the NATO military alliance, and still be around to talk about it. Since NATO’s founding in 1949, it saw its first military action in 1994. NATO has been preying on weak nations along with the US ever since. President Vladimir Putin saw a great threat festering on his Western border which could have been an open highway straight into Moscow. He and Russia have taken everything that The West has in their arsenal of gangsterism: economic sanctions, total economic and military support for Ukraine, and worldwide Russophobia. His resistance to the Rules-Based International Order has quickened the pace of China’s rise and inspired other nations to stand up to US bullying. We are surely living through a distinct moment in history in 2023. Even the USSR with a much larger and more powerful military 1949-1991 never challenged the US in this way. The US is losing its political capital, and economic dominance, which will lead to a shrinking of its military…
THE IRONY
Isn’t it extremely ironic that the United States would jump at any chance to enter conflict with countries that have weakened or broken militaries? Yet, the US cowered in its corner and allowed Ukraine to be used as cannon fodder when the opportunity presented itself to fight another great power…