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World Is Many Things – at the Same Time
The world is in a superposition of two states:
On the one hand, the World has become Multipolar.
At the same time, the World is also US dominated Unipolar.
My point is that this is not either or.
The World is both Multipolar and Unipolar at the same time. If you find this difficult to comprehend, just think about all the factors that point in one direction, and all the factors that point at the opposite direction. At the same time.
Measured in Purchase Power Parity, China has since long ago overtaken the US, and India has overtaken Germany, France, and Italy combined.
But measured in GDP and in US-dollar military expenditure, the US looks supreme.
Then back again, in spite of its heavy military expenditure, the US is losing its proxy-war in Ukraine and will lose any war on Taiwan, if it should break out.
On the other hand, even if the US Navy cannot save Taiwan, the US Navy dominates all the distant sea routes which China needs for transportation.
To continue this back and forth, the US has made NATO bigger than ever. On the other hand, BRICS with 19 official and unofficial applicants is also becoming bigger than ever.
Measured in votes at the UN General Assembly against Russia, the World follows the US. But counting abstentions and non-participation in sanctions into the picture, the World majority has abandoned “US leadership”.
You can go on like this for a long time, piling arguments up for Unipolarity, and other arguments for Multipolarity. It is contradictory, but contradictory facts and situations can still be true in some sense – in the world of physics, as well as in the ambiguous world of humans.
We see that both elements of Unipolarity and Multipolarity exist – at the same time.
I call this state of World affairs duality – inspired by quantum physics, which proves that two contradictory situations can exist simultaneously.
Foreign Affairs — Challenge
o the official seat of the US foreign policy élite, brings a very interesting article, “The Myth of Multipolarity”. In their article, Foreign Affairs argues very well as for the one side of the picture, as for Unipolarity dominated by the USA. And following my argument above, yes, Unipolarity still exists. But that is only half the picture. Multipolarity exists as well !
I do not agree with everything Foreign Affairs writes – far from. Foreign Affairs omits all the arguments for a Multipolar World. Foreign Affairs also politically chooses to believe that the West is winning in Ukraine, while Russia is actually beating Ukraine flat – something which is going to influence the World order profoundly. But Foreign Affairs makes so to speak the best argument possible for Unipolarity. And that is somehow also a kind of achievement, even if it is leading the USA itself into the woods of its own hubris and delusions.
Take the article by Foreign Affairs as a challenge.
US Hegemony still reigns ! – or does it ?
Debate
Dear Readers – I hope you will join this debate.
Is Foreign Affairs right to assert, that Unipolarity under the US still dominates the globe?
Or has Multipolarity overtaken the World order, and if so why? Or do you agree with my point, that Unipolarity or Multipolarity today exist at the same time.
And to bring this one point further: Where is the World heading? Even if Unipolarity still exists, is it sustainable for much longer? Or can Unipolarity even be reinforced by the USA?
Or referring again to quantum physics, will you say like I do, that the duality of the two simultaneous superpositions of Unipolarity and Multipolarity may collapse – and only one of the two states will remain.
Multipolarity.
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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
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