Western media article: Cold confrontation stems from the Western "moral superiority complex"

On January 19, the website of the new forum in Spain published an article entitled "Fukuyama Complex" by Enrique Vega Fernandez. The full text is excerpted below:

Entering the third decade of the 21st century, all indications are that we will usher in a new round of "Cold War" between major powers.

If between 1945 and 1990 the two camps of the Cold War were ideologically, geopolitically, economically, religiously, and culturally tit-for-tat and relatively easy to define, the two sides of the current "Cold War camp," one that can continue to be called the "West," remained fairly consistent in their economic (capitalist) and political (so-called "liberal democracy") frameworks, albeit with slightly less internal cohesion – the European Union offered more autonomy in security and defense, while the United States proposed a "pivot to the Pacific." Policy; the other camp is countries with different political systems. Their main common denominator is against a common enemy, the West.

The reasons for cold confrontation are not exactly the same. In 1945, the two groups of the Cold War aspired to control the rest of the world in order to impose their own distinct ideological, economic and political ideas. However, the cause of the cold confrontation we are witnessing today seems to be what can be called the "moral superiority complex" or "Fukuyama complex" of the West, or "the end of the history of political thought."

According to this complex, since the defeat of Nazism and Fascism in World War II, the only thing that dominates the world is the theoretically insurmountable so-called "capitalist liberal democratic political system" and its "civil and political human rights". This can be achieved through sustained and ubiquitous repetition based on commercial advertising technology; constant pressure to achieve greater economic development and control and monopoly of world financial capital; or the use of powerful military power to achieve "peace, stability, counter-terrorism," and so on. This attempt to control the world to achieve a sense of moral superiority in the financial world and in the West is the foundation of all current geopolitics.

Its effects began to show after the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War. Most of the resistance that fights against governments and regimes supported by the United States and the Western world magically disappears; countries that cannot eliminate these activities are called "failed states."

But Russia (in terms of territory, nuclear weapons, and history) is so powerful that it didn't take long to start resisting these postures. Putin came to power, and Western powers are seen as competitors by Russia and its people. Putin is determined to gradually achieve face-to-face talks with the major Western powers, making Russia a great power capable of maintaining the sphere of influence of the Slavic nation and even the Soviet Union. Limiting Russia's sphere of influence has since become a geopolitical goal for Western countries, while also gradually attracting countries in the region to the NATO and EU camps. Because of this, Ukraine is now the focus of contention between the two sides.

While this potential conflict was slowly developing, in the Far East, China began its reform and opening up in 1978. China's reform and opening up has gradually progressed, and today, China has become the world's second largest economy and is seen by the United States as a challenge.

These are two fronts that gradually point to the Western world and its moral, technical, and economic-commercial superiority complex, or Fukuyama complex, and are added to their old disputes with the "Third World." In general, the Third World, liberated from colonialism and gained political independence, had achieved major victories against the West in the Cold War, but had not yet achieved economic and cultural victories, and it was in the cultural sphere that they would launch a new "revolt" against the West's moral superiority complex.

Source: Reference News Network