Unity parade

More and more states around the world are fighting for freedom from US pressure and the social vector of development

The visit of the President of the Republic of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, to the Middle East and Africa should be interpreted not only as an ordinary business raid, but as a radical change in the role of Belarus in world politics and international relations. Lukashenko actually marked and publicly announced a new stage in world history — this is the strengthening of co-operation and close mutual assistance of countries that have been subjected to severe pressure from the collective West (civil wars, interventions, sanctions, ‘velvet revolutions’, etc.), for a joint struggle against the ‘politics of nullification and destruction of states’.

Demand for self-determination

We see that the collective West, led by the Anglo-Saxon world, does not intend to give up its positions and is ready to fight for its hegemony to the last Ukrainian (against the Slavs), to the last Japanese (against China, North Korea), the list goes on…

The principle of ‘divide and conquer’ is actively used by hostile filibusters to plant wars, revolutions, strife between neighbouring countries, peoples and citizens of one country.

This is done solely for the sake of quick enrichment through the collapse of economies, the devaluation of national currencies, the ruin of agriculture, industry, the seizure of gold reserves, the establishment of control over natural resources, the import of their goods, the imposition of loans, the creation of artificial conflicts and the supply of weapons.
Belarus, having withstood the onslaught of the most sophisticated political, economic and information-psychological technologies in 2020, is now ready to actively promote its skills, abilities and approaches to help the same countries — victims of Western aggression.
It’s hard to win alone. But if in 2020-2022 we strengthened unity within the framework of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, the EAEU, the CIS, the SCO, now it’s time to expand the geography of unity!
No matter how loud and catchy it may sound, but in the joint struggle for self-determination and sovereignty there is a huge need on the part of the victim countries themselves, who often waged a liberation war on their own against colonial oppression by the Anglo-Saxons or Europeans.
This struggle has always been inextricably linked with the strengthening of the ideas of the social orientation of the economy, the improvement of the well-being of not an elite group, but of every citizen. Now the former colonial countries and their peoples understand that the unfair distribution of the annual surplus value (GDP) within the state, when 1 percent of the inhabitants and/or colonialists appropriate the labour of 99 percent of the population, will always lead them to internal strife and conflicts, and they will always be prey for aggressor states due to the possibility of easily inciting discontent, protests, conflicts and wars.

Latin passion

It is important to understand that the struggle for one’s freedom and the social orientation of state policy is now gaining momentum in other regions of the world, primarily in Latin America.
The political events in this region in 2022 and their continuation this year demonstrate the intensification of the struggle of ordinary Latin Americans for their self-determination, for their rights, freedoms against oligarchic groups supported by Washington and Anglo-Saxon corporations.
Last year, traditionally US-oriented right-wing and radical right-wing governments in Latin America began to be replaced by left-wing forces that are building relationships with China and Russia.

At the same time, the region experienced a wave of popular protests in 2022: Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, El Salvador, Honduras. However, the economy of Latin America was under a double blow: first from the pandemic and lockdowns, and then from the sanctions war of the West against Russia.

Poverty and growing inequality in the region are caused by the activities of anti-people governments, consisting of a wealthy elite, in the interests of international financial institutions (IMF, World Bank).
The demands of the protesters were generally common to all Latin American countries: lower energy prices, increased assistance to the poor, a moratorium on debt and loan payments, lower unemployment, nationalisation of previously privatised companies from the energy, telecommunications, and medicine sectors. Some governments have tried to appease the protesters by demonstrating the culprits by throwing in fake news that Russia is solely to blame for the current economic situation. Let us remember that the Europeans were fed the same explanations in 2022, trying to justify themselves for inflation and a shortage of heat.

The opposition of popularly elected presidents or prime ministers of the left wing, advocating the interests of ordinary citizens, with the partisan legislature bought by the United States — congresses and parliaments of the right or right-wing radical orientation has become a characteristic feature of Latin America.

The unenviable prospects of the States

The decrease in the level of US control over the processes in the Latin American region, the intensification of the people’s struggles for their rights and independence have created new challenges and threats to the national security of the United States, which, of course, will divert attention from global projects in other regions — in Europe and the Asia-Pacific direction.

For Washington, the withdrawal of the US from Europe and the Asia-Pacific Region is tantamount to a voluntary recognition of the loss of the status of world hegemon. At the same time, the dissipation of US resources and attention to the pacification of China, Russia, European, African, Latin American countries will lead to a gradual ruin of the US.

And most importantly, to the formation of a sustainable distrust of global investors in the reliability of US debt obligations and the stability of the dollar as a global means of savings, payment, and the equivalent of value.
In this regard, there’s no something special in appearance of an article in The New York Times about what will matter in 50 years: ‘…In 2073, only one meaning will matter, whether Joe Biden was able to reverse the global wave of attacks on democracy that began long before his presidency... If Biden can solve this problem, it will be a historic achievement. If not, there are much darker days ahead of us.’
The 2020-2022 period has caused dramatic structural changes. But only not in the interests of the world elites, as RAND, Stratford and the CIA predicted, but in the interests of the ordinary inhabitants of our planet. In this regard, the new foreign policy announced by Lukashenko in Africa for the unity and mutual support of the oppressed countries acquires the character of a global struggle for their self-determination of small and medium-sized states in the era of the battle of the powerful.

By Aleksei Avdonin, an analyst with the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR)