History has proven, and will continue to prove, that hegemony created through aggression, expansion, repression, and enslavement often does not have "permissibility."
After the 2019 G7 summit, host Macron lamented, "The West is experiencing the end of hegemony." ”
Macron's remarks caused an uproar at the time. After all, in the traditional cognition of the West, Western civilization is the "ultimate form" of human civilization.
2 years is fleeting, and perhaps even Macron himself did not expect that the original "jokes" are now becoming a reality.
Recently, there have been 2 major events in the world that deserve attention, and behind each of them, it highlights the weakening of Western hegemony.
The first is to deny hegemony! Kissinger, 98, issued another warning.
On the 23rd, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger participated in the third Bund Financial Summit by video. During this period, the "living fossil" of the US political arena stressed that no country in the world today can achieve hegemony, and the United States is no exception.
Kissinger believes that the epidemic is still spreading around the world, and countries should do their best to strengthen communication, especially on non-political issues, including scientific research, historical research, and commercial activities.
Kissinger pointedly pointed out that one of the major questions facing the world today is whether countries only need to care about their own interests or whether they must recognize the importance of world connectivity.
He also warned that there will be more similar problems in the future that require countries to cooperate in the future. If the world were reduced to a nationalist "arena," it would be much more difficult to avoid conflict.
In addition, Kissinger argues that if each country looks at the problem from the perspective of its own interests and refuses to treat other countries as equals, it will create such a danger - in the early stages of the crisis, the parties only analyze the problem from their own and local perspectives, thus making confrontation and conflict more likely.
Based on the problems the world is currently facing, Kissinger gave his own advice.
In his view, countries should fully recognize each other's common rights in many fields and strengthen cooperation on the basis of the principle of equality. Because in today's world, no country can achieve hegemony, and no country has the ability to dominate the whole world.
Kissinger's remarks are not only a warning to the United States, but also to warn all countries that want to create hegemony that in the current international environment, mutual benefit and win-win results have become the trend of the times, and if they "go against the current", conflicts and crises will be difficult to avoid.
In fact, since the outbreak of the epidemic, Kissinger has repeatedly publicly called for the great powers to reduce their confrontation and see each other as competitors, not enemies. Because once a full-scale conflict breaks out between major powers, the whole world will suffer.
Kissinger, who is already 98 years old, can still maintain such a clear mind, which is indeed worthy of admiration. More importantly, the United States should be thankful that there are still people in the political arena like Kissinger who judge the situation and dare to tell the truth.
The second thing, Bitter Beauty Jiuyi! France and Russia have accelerated the process of "de-dollarization".
In the past four years, under Trump's unilateral foreign policy of "America First", the United States has regarded any country, including allies, as a potential target for cutting leeks and wool.
After Biden took office, he played the slogan of "the United States is back" and declared that he wanted to repair the relations between the United States and Europe, but in fact he did not change the soup and did not change the medicine, and the world has been "bitter for a long time."
It is said that where there is oppression, there is resistance. On the 23rd, French President Emmanuel Macron said at a press conference after the EU summit that the EU is an important policy tool, and the EU should further promote the internationalization of the euro and get rid of the "long-arm jurisdiction" of the US dollar.
Macron also believes that the internationalization of the euro will also help promote the financial integration of the EU.
From Macron's statement, it is not difficult to see that the United States uses the hegemony of the US dollar to sanction Russia, Iran and other countries on the one hand, and at the same time transfers the crisis to the world through the over-issuance of using the US dollar, which has caused dissatisfaction in more and more countries.
In Macron's view, the United States imposed retaliatory tariffs on EU goods, or "cut off" the French nuclear submarine last month. Facts have proved that any ally that hinders the United States from exercising hegemony can be sacrificed, and the EU must plan early and not let Washington slaughter it.
At the same time, Russia is accelerating the process of "de-dollarization".
A few days ago, Putin said that the second branch of the "Nord Stream-2" natural gas pipeline is expected to complete the gas injection before the end of this year, and once it is completed, Russia will immediately send natural gas to Europe through the pipeline to alleviate Europe's energy crisis.
For the Russian side, if the Nord Stream-2 can be put into use on time, it will accelerate russia's "de-dollarization" process.
Because the EU has already decided to bypass the using of the using the using euro for settlement when conducting energy trade.
In order to de-dollarize, Russia has developed a complete strategy, from reducing the direct use of the dollar, to reducing the proportion of the dollar in foreign exchange reserves, to selling US Debt sharply.
For now, although it is difficult for Russia and Europe to shake the hegemony of the US dollar in the short term, it has played an exemplary and leading role in the trend of de-dollarization in the world and made outstanding contributions to breaking the international monetary system dominated by the US dollar.
The collapse of dollar hegemony is the time when the United States is in decline. It is clear that Washington is on this path with "confident and determined" pace.