OPINION (RT News) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that new centers of global power are working to build a multipolar system to replace US-led Western hegemony. All things considered, Washington should be very relieved. In comments that were widely ignored in the Western mainstream media, Russia’s veteran diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, dropped a bombshell last week, declaring the demise of “the Western liberal model of development,” which he said is “losing its attractiveness and is no more viewed as a perfect model for all.”
The diminishing enthusiasm over Washington’s plan for a ‘new world order’, a blueprint for global domination that was mentioned by former US President George H. W. Bush in 1991, is not just confined to non-Western countries. Citizens of the Western hemisphere are also increasingly skeptical about Washington’s unilateral ambitions, Lavrov noted. Former Western leaders, like Woodrow Wilson, and later, Winston Churchill, also flirted with the idea of a new world order. However, it wasn’t until the collapse of the Soviet Union, America’s ideological arch-enemy, that the plan for global domination, with the United States as the supreme authority, grabbed the imagination of Washington policymakers. READ MORE
