Stephen Sefton, Global Research, December 05, 2025 —
Western governments do not even bother now to hide the essential nihilism of their policies in the face of the decline of their political-military and economic power relative to the majority world. This nihilism of the ruling elites of the collective West is expressed in multiple forms. It is seen in the abuse of multilateral institutions, in unilateralism and the abandonment of international law, in the betrayal of their own peoples by mediocre leaders, in their undemocratic domestic culture of censorship and repression, and in the general collapse of trust caused by their constant bad faith.
Through higher productivity, better technology and more development cooperation, Eurasian countries and their counterparts in other regions have created new trade and financial conditions that leave Western economies at a disadvantage. But instead of adapting to the new global economic reality and competitively assimilating the challenges they face, the Western ruling elites have resorted to protectionism, counterproductive unilateralism and more aggressive manipulation of the multilateral institutions that they control, but which no longer serve as before to achieve all their objectives.
The inability of the collective West to respond in a coherent, viable and effective way to the new world order is expressed via desperate policies of militarization and their efforts to consolidate their power at a regional level. These efforts are evident in the US military aggression against Venezuela, the Zionist and US aggression in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon and the European interventions in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova, for example. At the domestic level, amid the censorship of genuine information and the political repression of protest, Western elites intimidate their populations by instilling fear of a fictitious Russian aggression or the false threat of oppressive Chinese hegemony.
Internationally, the cynical Western ruling classes abuse the institutions they themselves created. They abuse their control of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to grossly and inordinately favor their vassal governments, such as those of Argentina and Ukraine. They sabotage the World Trade Organization so as to hinder possible adverse decisions of WTO arbitration mechanisms and they manipulate organizations such as the International Atomic Energy Agency to persecute Iran. Western abandonment of international humanitarian law is expressed above all in the way the North American and European ruling élites ensure heartless, unconditional support for the Zionist genocide in Palestine and the systematic violations of international norms by the corrupt Nazi regime in Ukraine.
The same Western powers violate the most fundamental international norms with their repeated illegal aggression against Iran and Venezuela or any other country that defends its national sovereignty. In the same way, they have always acted with brazen criminality by sequestering the financial assets of countries they attack economically and militarily such as Libya, Iran, Russia and Venezuela. At the internal level, this criminality reflects the inability of Western leaders to offer their populations a vision of their future human development. Quite simply, they do not have one.
Nor do they think about democratizing their economies with a focus on productivity and the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises that are the essential basis of national economies, along with the provision by the public sector of good health and education systems and new infrastructure. Instead they propose discredited and outdated neoliberal corporate welfare schemes such as the recommendations of last year’s report by Italian banker and politician Mario Draghi on future European competitiveness. In fact, faced with the defeat of NATO in its war against Russia in Ukraine, European leaders are now facing two insurmountable short-term consequences of their economic aggression against Russia: high public indebtedness and deindustrialization due to the high cost of energy.
Now, they contemplate even greater indebtedness to revive European industry through a megalomaniacal scheme of general rearmament supposedly in preparation for a war with Russia before the year 2030. At the same time that they propose to do this, last July the European leadership committed itself to a slavish neocolonial agreement committing European countries to invest more than US$600 billion in the North American economy and to buy US$750 billion of North American liquefied gas. The agreement eliminates European tariffs against US exports, but accepts tariffs of 15% on exports from European countries to the US.
Nothing expresses the insane nihilism of the collective West better than this profoundly undemocratic betrayal of the sovereignty of the European peoples. While the US and European elites destroy the aspirations of their peoples, majority world governments committed to a new international order demonstrate their faith in the future human development of their peoples. The best among these governments guide their socio-economic policies to eliminate poverty, achieve the Common Good, protect the interests of their peoples and defend national sovereignty and dignity.
It is natural that revolutionary countries are the foremost representatives of this vision of the future because they have to be committed to the best practices for achieving the Common Good through responsible planning and a deep cultural faith in the traditions and ancestral spirit of their peoples. This reality is evident from the way Cuba, Democratic Korea, Iran, Nicaragua and Venezuela, among other countries, have managed to overcome the constant sadistic aggression of the Western elites. It evinces deep, invincible faith in the human potential of our peoples. In the case of Venezuela, the frustration of the greedy criminal US elites is now expressed in the threat of a new and more serious military aggression.
In the case of the People’s Republic of China, the tremendous transformative capacity of the people’s revolutionary faith has always been evident in the five-year plans coordinated by the Communist Party of China. This year the CPC has highlighted how
“The XV Five Year Plan occupies an important position of openness to the future with heritage from the past in the fundamental process of carrying out socialist modernization. The fulfillment of socialist modernization, a historical process of gradual advances and incessant development and progress, requires tireless commitment and continuous struggle.”
Thus Chinese socialism distinguishes a planned revolutionary process from the perverse capitalist vision of society as a chaos of individual transactions dominated by fascist elites who monopolize power and enforce a grossly unjust distribution of wealth.
Among the objectives of China’s new five-year plan, the CPC recommends prioritizing
“Further strengthening of faith in our culture; constant consolidation and strengthening of the main ideologies and public opinion; broad application of essential socialist values; incessant activation of the innovative and creative cultural vigor of the entire nation; added enrichment of the spiritual and cultural life of the population…”
This emphatic cultural awareness responds to the vision of President Xi Jinping who has always emphasized the importance of the spirit of the Chinese nation.
In 2013 before the 12th National Assembly, President Xi Jinping stated,
“To realize the Chinese dream, we must foster the Chinese spirit consisting of a national spirit focused on patriotism and an overall vision focused on reform and innovation. This spirit constitutes the soul of the invigoration and strengthening of the country.”
In the same way in 2021 during a visit to the famous Zhu Xi Garden in Fujian Province, President Xi commented,
“It is necessary to recognize the great importance of exploiting the quintessence of ancient Chinese civilization and combining the development of excellent traditional culture with Marxist positions, views and methods with a view to unflinchingly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.”
This fusion of revolutionary commitment, the best practice of governance and of faith in the national spirit is also seen in the revolutions of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. As our Compañera Rosario explained,
“Our Heroes teach us to live the Immensity, the Immensity which means dedication to the Common Good. That is the Immensity. It is Spirituality… Commitment to the Common Good!”
And as Comandante Daniel has stated,
“They murdered Sandino… but they couldn’t destroy Sandino’s Spirit, they couldn’t destroy Sandino’s Soul. They couldn’t destroy it! So, where is he? Indeed where is he? He is in the soul of the Nicaraguan people!”
And too, as Compañera Rosario also confirms,
“We are always called to live our National Sovereignty with a deep and transcendent Spiritual Sense of Sovereignty, because our History so obliges us.”
This elevated revolutionary awareness of the historical cultural and spiritual identity of our peoples drives the commitment to national planning focused on the human development of people and their families. One of the mandatory principles the CPC recommends for the XV Five-Year Plan in China is,
“Perseverance in the primacy of the People. In respect of the position of the People as protagonists, we need to act by relying closely upon them, defending their fundamental interests and promoting equity and social justice, such that we pay attention to both guaranteeing and improving the People’s living conditions…”
In the same way, the Latin American revolutions insist on the role of our peoples as protagonists, defending their interests in order to achieve the Common Good. In Nicaragua, this principle is expressed not only through the five-year National Plans for Human Development and the Struggle against Poverty but also via the constant planning in all areas of national life, from citizen security, road safety and the security of women, planning against natural disasters and fires, protecting the coffee harvest, ensuring the nutritional security of children, vaccination programs and health in the school system, as well as the National Production, Consumption and Trade Plan and the constant planning in all the central government institutions and local government municipalities.
Now, observing the criminal US threat of more intense military aggression against Venezuela, we can see the crucial fundamental role that national security and defense plans have played to protect the security and peace of the Venezuelan people and the country’s national sovereignty. We can see very clearly a decisive clash between the majority faith of our peoples in their future human development and the destructive nihilism of the collective West. As our co-presidents communicated in their recent message of birthday congratulations to President Nicolás Maduro;
“Beings like you, Nicholas, fill our Hearts with new brilliance and give us enormous energy. May we continue to be, Together, great Energies, gigantic Dreams, confirmation of Rights, from a transcendent Vitality and Firmness so that Peace May Be and Reign. Always Beyond and Always Together, in Times of Sacrosanct and Decisive Battles, for the Greatest and Most Decisive Victories.”
