Sony Thăng : what MULTIPOLARITY really means in plain English

TEXT BY SONY THĂNG :

Here is what multipolarity actually means, translated from the language of geopolitics into plain speech.

Other countries get to make their own decisions about their own resources.

THAT’s IT.

That is the threatening, destabilizing, civilizationnally alarming thing that Western foreign policies establishments have spent thirty years trying to prevent.

Not nuclear war

Not terrorism

Not authoritarianism

They have supported enough authoritarian governments when those governments were cooperative to prove that was never the real concern.

THE ACTUAL THREAT IS :

A country that has oil decides the price.

A country that has lithium decides who buys it and on what terms.

A country with agricultural land decides what it grows and who it feeds first.

The West calls it “instability”.

The countries doing it call it sovereignty.

And the reason those two words describe the same event so differently is that for one side, the current arrangement is called “order”.

AND “ORDER” ONLY FEELS LIKE ORDER WHEN IT WORKS FOR YOU.

When it works against you, the word for it is something else.

The people who were never consulted about the arrangement have always had a word for it.

The word is not order.