THE WORLD OUTSIDE THE WESTERN ORBIT IS GATHERING TO FACE THE WEST DOWN

Every school playground has seen this play out. When a tyrannical bully is constantly pushing his weight around there's only one sure way to face him down and make sure he STAYS down.

Children know the score and the script when there’s a bully around. You stay tight with your friends.

The western powers have thrown their weight around for a very long time now. The rest of the world is sick of it but until recently countries the West wished to manipulate, exploit and completely dominate were weak enough to be bullied into submission. Now they have the clear opportunity to change this situation and end the abuse they have suffered from the West forever.

It’s not surprising then that China has made it clear that it will assist Russia in defending itself if it comes to a fight. But China is not the only friend Russia has that may be relied upon to stand up to the collective western bully… far from it. The BRICS 2024 summit just ended shows this. It is no longer the case that the western powers can throw their weight around with impunity. Now there will be major costs to their actions.

The nations outside the western orbit of control, those that have now gravitated to or are gravitating to China and Russia within the BRICS group are organizing themselves into an ever tighter group. Mechanisms for trading in their own currencies rather than the US dollar are being put in place. The US dollar has been one of the main weapons the West has used against nations it intends to control. Through the US dollar, the world’s leading reserve currency and through the Petrodollar the USA can levy crippling sanctions on countries to coerce them to obey its command.

The unity felt by the BRICS nations and the 35+ nations who have expressed their wish to join signals the desire of the global majority to escape the malign and completely self-interested domination of the West for so long. They know that in unity lies strength and that this is especially important now that the USA and its allies have left a trail of devastation in recent times through their regime change wars. For them there will be no going back to their state of individual weakness. Those days are well and truly over.

In addition to the BRICS group there are other organisations of Eurasian and Asian states who have banded together to oppose beliggerent western desire to subjugate and exploit them. First of these is the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) .

Wikipedia:

‘The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, formed in 2002. The Collective Security Treaty has its origins in the Soviet Armed Forces, which was replaced in 1992 by the United Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and was then itself replaced by the successor armed forces of the respective independent states.

Similar to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, Article 4 of the Collective Security Treaty (CST) establishes that an aggression against one signatory would be perceived as an aggression against all. The 2002 CSTO charter reaffirmed the desire of all participating states to abstain from the use or threat of force. Signatories are prohibited from joining other military alliances.’

Next is the ‘Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)’.

Wikipedia:

‘The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a Eurasian political, economic, international security and defence organization established by China and Russia in 2001. It is the world's largest regional organization in terms of geographic scope and population, covering approximately 24% of the area of world (65% of Eurasia) and 42% of the world population. As of 2024, its combined nominal GDP accounts for around 23%, while its GDP based on PPP comprises approximately 36% of the world's total.

As the saying goes, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If the western nations are going to act in unison against Russia in Ukraine then Russia will not by any means stand alone against them. Russia has a great many friends among the global majority who have for a long time now have suffered the interminable bullying of the western powers. They see their chance at last to shuck off the persistent threats of this bully by standing in unison with powerful others against it.

With the USA, UK and most EU nations apparently up for a fight against Russia it is only natural for Russia to band together with as many others as possible to fight against them. Through a misguided and fraudulent that they have sone god-given right to rule, threaten, coerce and punish other nations into obeying them the western powers have now split the world in two. By deciding to fight the rising powers of the east rather than work with them the western powers have become their own worst enemy. The failing trajectory of their economies just as those of Eurasia and Asia rise can only bring about one result… the final end of western domination and the quarantining of the West.