This was huge. No, huge doesn’t begin to cover it, this was tectonic. He said out loud the thing very few people have been willing to explicitly state: the old world order based around US hegemony is over. And that’s a good thing. We must now build a new, democratic rules based order in place of US hegemonic dominance.
Folks, this will be one of the most pivotal moments of the 21st century.
Its huge and he said what everyone’s thinking. But i think the reason people werent saying it was because they dont believe the second part of his statement. I think they dont believe we(democratic countries) CAN build a new democratic rules based order.
Fingers crossed that the US gets a sane leader in soon. Mentally I’m thinking the biggest problem democratic countries need to solve is a way to insulate against information warfare and manipulated narratives.
The world needs to try. Declaring failure before we even start is not the way to approach this. You want to proceed with caution, I understand, but you must also proceed in good faith. And that means not entering into a democratic world order with suspicion of every country that isn’t white, Western and liberal. The world is a large, diverse place. There are a lot of different cultures, ethnicities and political systems. To limit participation in a democratic world order to only Western style liberal democracies means excluding most of the world. How can we ever hope to have a democratic, rules based world order if most of the world isn’t allowed to participate?