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Multilateralism is in crisis. This observation is largely attributable to the desire of the entire West to play the third half of the post-post-Cold War era. The American unipolar episode resulting from the fall of the Berlin Wall and which peaked between 2001 and 2006, gave rise to multiple crises, wars and destabilization with a particular focus on the Middle East regions and Eastern Europe.
This strategy of chaos programmed and executed by the United States and its European allies has led to the marginalization of international organizations guarantors of multilateralism, international law and universal norms. Which leads observers on the international scene to say that Westerners cannot play a positive role in reforms of the UN system and mechanisms. The collective West is the main architect of repeated violations of international treaties.
Westerners are playing a destructive role in the Middle East, notably regarding Israeli aggression against Gaza and promoting neo-Nazis and supremacist bandits in Ukraine. Washington and its satellites do not want to maintain international peace and stability or preserve existing norms of international law. Moreover, the West is the main actor in exacerbating conflicts around the world.
This new situation of Western imperialism demands a response from the global South and the BRICS countries which claim a greater role in the management of world affairs, but above all respect for international norms and rules strictly speaking, and not Western rules, proclaimed urbi et orbi, universal rules, in contempt of the non-Western peoples of the planet.
Specialists in international issues and jurists rightly emphasize the need to proceed, as a matter of urgency, with the reform of the United Nations system, with the enlargement of the Security Council as a result. Better representation of the countries of the Global South on the UN Security Council will allow African, Asian and South American countries to actively participate in the management of world affairs and escape the diktat of the “Western” veto.
This new architecture will undoubtedly be the keystone for profoundly reforming the mysteries of the international organization born in the aftermath of the Second World War. An enlarged Security Council with new permanent members representing previously marginalized continents will be more effective.
The permanent members of the Security Council retaining their right of veto will be more legitimate to take the decisions necessary for the resolution of conflicts. Moreover, the Security Council itself must preserve its key role in supporting international peace and stability on the brink of a global political crisis.
Already, many emerging countries and the Global South are playing a crucial role in promoting multilateralism and defending the interests of those who have no say. Thus, China, Russia, Algeria, South Africa, Brazil, India, to name only these countries, have repeatedly demonstrated their commitment to the settlement of conflicts caused by Western powers.
The management of the Palestinian issue by the United States is indicative of the American bias and alignment in favor of Israeli theses. Ditto for the Ukrainian question. The obstinacy of Westerners in supporting Ukronazi theses reveals a deep unease within the elite of the integral West in the face of dissonant voices and those of emerging countries.
The disdain with which Donald Trump regards the G20 summit in Johannesburg is indicative of this dominant spirit within the Western elite which intends to look down on Africa, as if the year 2025 is only a reminder of the year 1885, that of the division of the continent at the Berlin Congress.
Without the contribution of all emerging countries and those of the Global South, the Western order will continue and the geopolitical domination of the latter will still be effective for decades to come. Washington and its allies know that the current upheavals herald a strategic shift in favor of the global South and emerging countries. Only great anti-colonial solidarity can contribute to the improvement of international peace support mechanisms on the basis of UN principles.
Given the current situation of global tension and instability, the time has come for the mobilization of what the late Frantz Fanon, the great Algerian revolutionary, described as “the wretched of the earth”.