WHY DOES MOST OF THE WORLD SUPPORT RUSSIA?

For this discussion we must forget the blather that has issued from the mouths of almost all western political and media elites. The clear fact of the matter, as evidenced by the majority of actual shifts in power arrangements worldwide, is that the nations with the largest populations overall are steadily aligning with each other to an ever greater degree and in doing so, via BRICS, with Russia.

India and Saudi Arabia are two of the most recent nations to move closer to Russia and away from previous positions that indicated a degree of closeness to the West. China is a given and has been seen as Russia’s closest ally for quite some time. Now, almost on a daily basis we hear of ever more nations wishing to join the BRICS group and other groupings in which Russia is an integral member.

Why is this occurring? What, apart from the benefits of perceived economic advantage, is the motivation behind this shift? There are several.

One of the lesser, though very important reasons for nations grouping to push back against western power and influence is the desire to escape possible future sanctions imposed upon them by a United States still seeing itself as the global cop assigned by God to discipline them for, they would insist, ‘their own good’. With the U.S. dollar being the world’s reserve currency the political elites of the USA have the perfect weapon to threaten retribution and, if they deem it necessary, to impose punishments on nations that don’t toe the U.S. line. Naturally many nations would like to trade and connect with nations of their choosing rather than always have to look to U.S. interests rather than their own.

How does grouping together assist in the project to escape the potential danger of sanctions imposed upon them by the USA via the power of the U.S. dollar?

Nations grouping together in organisations such as the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) can organisation their international payments in local currencies and so bypass the power of the dollar to keep them vulnerable to U.S. imposed sanctions. In addition, there exists among those aligning closely with and joining BRICS, a goal to create a brand new currency in which to trade based on gold which in time begin to rival the U.S. dollar. In these ways a great many nations are signalling their desire to exit from the U.S. sphere of influence and to regain their independence, freedom from external (U.S.) influence and to make their own decisions based on their national interests rather than on those of the external power of the USA.

The even more substantial reason why so many nations of Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Global South are aligning with Russia is the prospect of a fully multipolar world. This is obviously closely related to the first reason described in the paragraphs above, to escape the current domination of the USA and its frequent threat and use of financial and economic weapons against them if they stray out of line in regard to U.S. national interests. Understandably these nations are far more interested in forwarding their own national interests but currently cannot effect any changes without the risk of inspiring the ire of the USA and the imposition of sanctions by it as a consequence.

Hopefully, at this point the reason why moving to a multipolar world is so extremely important to the nations of the world not voluntarily aligned with the USA, is clear and therefore why so many are now aligning in groups where Russia is an integral member. In addition, hopefully also now with greater clarity, it can be seen why defeat for Russia in Ukraine would potentially create a monumental setback for ambitions to realise a fully multipolar world. If this was to be the result the USA would reap huge geopolitical benefits and the possibility of nations still somewhat fearful of the USA and its ability to harm them through sanctions may well revert to their former positions. Those formal positions being essentially to submit to U.S. power and steadily retreat from joining the organisations such as the BRICS and SCO.

Hopefully, the two reasons described above for the most populous nations of the world tending to align themselves with Russia in regard to the Ukraine war (or at the very least doing so in private while publicly asserting neutrality) and aligning themselves with groupings in which Russia is an integral member, have become clear. The nations at risk of sanctions being applied to them if they don’t behave as the USA wants them to want out of this pernicious system that the U.S. elites glorify with buzzwords such as ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’. This system, acting through the imposition of sanctions, is neither democratic nor about enhancing freedom. It is about enforcing the will of one nation and its allies on the rest of the world and denying them their freedom to act in their own interests, demanding that they act only in the interests of those nations dictating to them.