"Washington is coming to realise that the world has changed"
Increasingly, Western politicians and analysts are waking up to signs of the emergence of a multipolar world order. Most of the world has not joined the sanctions against Russia, agreements are being reached to drop the dollar from trade, and interest in the Belt and Road Initiative is growing.
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"Washington is coming to realise that the world has changed"

Photo: AFP/Sputnik/Grigory Sysoyev
Mariann Őry 07/04/2023 07:42

Increasingly, Western politicians and analysts are waking up to signs of the emergence of a multipolar world order. Most of the world has not joined the sanctions against Russia, agreements are being reached to drop the dollar from trade, and interest in the Belt and Road Initiative is growing.

According to US Republican Senator Marco Rubio, the agreement between Brazil and China to trade primarily in national currencies rather than the dollar threatens that the United States will not be able to impose sanctions in the future because their impact will not be felt due to the declining role of the dollar, András Kosztur, a senior researcher at the Hungarian think tank 21st Century Institute, wrote on his Telegram channel.

The researcher believes that the war and its outcome are of less geopolitical importance than the processes that have come to light in the rest of the world.
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It was not the war that ended the hegemony of the United States, but it did lift the veil on the retreat that had already taken place and the limits of US influence. Slowly, even Washington is coming to realise that the world has changed. The question is what conclusions they will draw from this.

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András Kosztur wrote it is in the interests of the non-Western countries of the world that sanctions should not hit Russia because if it was, they could later be used against them. "This will allow China and others to study in advance how sanctions can be circumvented, and their combined weight is such that the United States cannot extend the sanctions regime to them, as that would isolate itself," he explained.

Back to Brazil: Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira, former Brazilian minister of tourism and former special presidential economic advisor, told the Global Times that  it is a "big possibility" that Brazil will officially join the Belt and Road Initiative as leaders of both countries are expected to engage more during Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's upcoming official visit to China.

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