Borrell right on demise of West's dominance of the world

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell's recent comment that "if the current global geopolitical tensions continue to evolve in the direction of 'the West against the Rest', Europe's future risks to be bleak" has gone viral on X(formerly Twitter).

Borrell said in a recent blog that "the era of Western dominance has indeed definitely ended" and "while this has been theoretically understood, we have not always drawn all practical conclusions from this new reality".

He further noted that "many in the 'Global South' accuse us of 'double standard'", referring to the West's starkly different reactions on the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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