Opinion
Have Biden, NATO or Western leaders really lost the plot and is a new world order yet to emerge in the aftermath of the Ukraine crisis?
Ukraine disaster. Pic – Times of India
By Jan Arden
In what must have been a very uncomfortable read for Western academics and high-street moralisers, the Singaporean scholar, author and ex-diplomat Kishore Mahbubani published in 2018 one of his more biting essays as a small book titled provocatively ‘Has the West Lost It?’.In it he argued passionately that the Western constructs of democracy and reason, remain essential to enduring world peace and stability but these can no longer be an imposed ideology on the world. The shift in global geo-economics towards the Asian powerhouses demanded adjustment and reassessment from the West for continued stability in the world order.
“It would be a great tragedy,” he concluded “if the West were to be the world’s primary instigator of turbulence and uncertainty at the hour of humanity’s greatest promise.” Little did he know how prescient his concluding words would be, as emerging from a planetary pandemic with unbounded hopes, a totally unnecessary and diplomatically avoidable Russian-NATO military confrontation over proxy Ukraine, dashes these aground and takes its dramatic toll. * Read More… Become a Subscriber
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