While the US is trying to destabilize Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to counter Russia’s economic expansion (via its pipelines) at the same time they are trying to destabilize Myanmar, Thailand and Taiwan to counter China’s economic expansion (via the New Silk Road).

The will to power as a negative and destructive force applied to the scale of geopolitics is what characterizes Washington’s international politics. A neoliberal globalist elite sees the dream of a unipolar world and planetary hegemony slipping through its fingers, while the BRICS constitute 40% of the world population and its gross domestic product exceeds that of the G7. The scattered violence that we are witnessing is the result of a desperate power that is losing momentum.

Russia continues to be portrayed as an evil country led by a criminal despot, while the United States has engaged in more than 100 military interventions since 1991.

The myth that Russia and China pose a danger to the international order is maintained even if the United States has 800 military bases around the world and Russia has only 9.

We continue to accuse others of warlike violence when the US has been at war almost all the time in its history and its military budget reaches more than 800 billion dollars per year.

In comparison, Russia’s annual budget is $60 billion per year.

We are worried about the words of a Russian philosopher, Alexander Dugin, even though he has no influence in Russia, he never met Putin, Putin never named him before his daughter was murdered, and the party he created got only a meager 0.5% in the Russian elections. We need a straw man to keep alive the simplistic and stereotypical view of the Russian invasion as an imperialist venture, something that has been approved by Dugin and his daughter for quite a while. In addition to exaggerating Dugin’s influence on Putin, this recourse to a fake Rasputin is an attempt to explain the conflict on the basis of Russia’s internal politics. However, the conflict can be explained first and foremost on the basis of geopolitics. The exclusion of geopolitics serves, wittingly or unwittingly, a very specific purpose: it diverts attention away from the presence of the elephant in the room, the United States.