The Great Mistake in the West’s Assessment of Geopolitical Realignments 1995–2020 The Great Mistake (which continues even after three decades!) in the West’s assessment of the geopolitical realignments of 1995–2020 — in a video

:When the desperate Russians delivered their final warning in 1997 to the United States and the West (to then-Vice President Biden) — urging them to stop NATO’s eastward expansion or else Russia would turn toward Asia, recognizing the geopolitical reality that they could not confront the United States directly, but could become the critical factor in geopolitical revisionism and a global power shift if they aligned with China — they were met with the same reaction Yeltsin had received: laughter and irony.Vice President Biden characteristically replied: “Good luck — you’ll need it if you do what you’re saying, because it’s impossible” (“lots of luck in your senior year!”) …to abundant, spontaneous laughter from his audience. The enormous (the greatest in history, compared to any other world power) power differential the United States enjoyed in 1997 proved hypnotic. After the world-historical victory over the USSR and the Warsaw Pact in Europe — essentially the total crushing of the adversary — it led to what was also unique in history: the Unipolar Moment. In other words, the existence of a single superpower in the global system.However, this was a situational and conjunctural reading of the world, not a dynamic one.The seeds of revisionism and the replacement of that unipolar moment by a more “democratic” redistribution of power — at the expense of the West — were already present.In that geopolitically decisive moment, the West and the United States, intoxicated by their historic victory (the second after World War II, which many believed had permanently solved security issues through the triumph of Western liberalism), failed to recognize the true strength of Chinese (and Russian) nationalism.

They remained fixated only on the communist surface and on individual greed and corruption. As a result, they ignored the voices warning for the timely containment of China — with the consequences we now see. Today, the United States and the West also appear trapped in peripheral wars — in Ukraine (against Russia) and in the Middle East (against Iran) — thereby granting China even more time and strategic breathing space. https://x.com/BowesChay/status/2073929418847002902/video/1 https://x.com/pantislawoffice/status/2074048749383389376