Fiery battlefront between a unipolar and a multipolar worldview
Multipolarity is not just a political idea: it is the ability of several states (countries or groups of countries) to successfully oppose trade, economic, financial, and military hegemony or influence of the United States over the entire world (which is unipolarity).
But this multipolar world is already real. That is to say, there are already countries and groups of countries that, over the past thirty years, have assumed roles and positions strong enough to challenge the dominant role of the United States and its international community.
The world has responded to this new environment! The response of the multipolar world questions the "ideological" foundations that the unipolar system wishes to enforce as universal standards: individualism and social atomization, unification of the global financial system, liberal democracy, Western interpretations of human rights and delusions of various Western lobbies.
Unipolar cosmopolitan universalism is opposed by a model where each pole has its own identity, both in terms of cultural values and political institutions that cannot be reduced to a universal model. These states do not just want their politics to be independent from the influence of supranational elites. They also want to oppose any "globalist" project that aims to impose the same values on the entire planet.
It is worth noting that "a culture of all cultures cannot exist".
You could say that the multipolar world emerged and evolved as Western globalization gradually declined.
Let me remind you that for the United States globalization was a response to the overall collapse of capitalism, when after the fall of the USSR (which used to divide the world into two blocks: the capitalist West on one side and the communist East on the other) the United States had no more obstacles standing in the way of its hegemonic plan of world domination.
Following the collapse of the USSR, we were told that united by our enthusiasm we were going to live in a globalized world in a unipolar system controlled by America, the only global guarantor of freedom, democracy, peace, and prosperity. The world would become a paradise, a global village of sorts, with a universal government that would eventually have to be established.
No! The reality in front of us contradicts this globalist project.
There was not and is not any peace making, the age of peace and prosperity has not begun. Moreover, the globalization phase has been characterized not only by metaphorical wars at the economic, trade, currency, and energy levels, but also by real military wars. One needs only to recall the number of "regional" wars of the last thirty years in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya. We all remember these countries receiving "democratic bombs" from the U.S. and NATO. Even the current conflict in Ukraine should be considered in this context.
But what is Europe going to do? This is not only a physical and geopolitical war, but also a war for identity and spirituality. The old continent, in particular, is in its epicenter today.
It is a fiery battlefront between a unipolar and a multipolar worldview.
Europe used to be a pole of civilization, but not anymore! It is no longer a continent of Greco-Roman culture nor is it the Christian Middle Ages! Confronted by a multipolar world that rushes into history through the political and geopolitical fabric of the world, it seems that Europe has not so much as considered posing to itself the famous Hamlet dilemma: "To be or not to be, that is the question". In reality, it is not even a question of what to do, but, more specifically, of being and wanting to continue to exist as its own political, geopolitical and economic entity.
Nowadays Europe is a colonized continent. Its elites represent the United States' interests and do not hesitate to act against even their own people in order to protect those interests. By tying its fate to that of the United States, Europe has taken the path of irrelevance and insignificance, and in a multipolar world it will only ever be an offshoot of the United States, its extension.
This is the result of lacking inner strength, spirituality. This is the result of the moral decay of the "Old Continent".