The West Empire Is Ending–The World Is Moving On
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 8 Sep 2025
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service
4 Sep 2025 – For three decades, we were fed a comforting myth: the Cold War was over, liberal democracy had triumphed, and the West would remain history’s final victor. Francis Fukuyama declared it “the end of history.” Washington and Brussels would govern the world; others would obey.
But history has not ended. It has only shifted course. What we are witnessing now is the end of an empire — and the birth of something multipolar.
Across the Global South, the Western model is no longer admired. It is seen as an obstacle, a relic that enforces sanctions, debt, and perpetual conflict. Beijing, Moscow, New Delhi, and their allies are sketching an alternative architecture through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS+, and bilateral partnerships. These platforms are not just forums; they are escape hatches from Western dominance. Trade routes, investments, and currencies increasingly move outside the West’s orbit.
To Western capitals, this looks like a threat. To billions elsewhere, it feels like fresh air. The end of tutelage. The chance to stand without a master. And that, perhaps, is the greatest Western fear: that nations will realize they no longer need Europe or America to define their futures.
India Breaks the Script
Take India. For years, the West assumed it had New Delhi’s loyalty. Yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chosen a different path. While speaking vaguely of peace in Ukraine, he has cemented a strategic partnership with Moscow, deepening ties not only with Russia but also with China.
The logic is simple: cheap energy, infrastructure investment, and sovereign equality are worth more than Western lectures. Each handshake between Modi and Vladimir Putin is a quiet humiliation for Washington. Together, they represent more than half of humanity, an economic bloc capable of rivaling the West, a political vision that does not rely on NATO or the IMF.
Who, then, is isolated? Putin surrounded by 20 heads of state — or Volodymyr Zelensky, shuttling from capital to capital, begging for weapons as Ukraine’s population drains away?
The Crumbling Throne of the Dollar
At the heart of this tectonic shift lies the dollar. For decades, America’s “king dollar” enabled it to live beyond its means, financing endless wars through the debts of others. That era is fading. Moscow, Beijing, and New Delhi now trade in rubles, yuan, and rupees. They stockpile gold. Every transaction conducted outside the dollar is another nail in the coffin of U.S. hegemony.
An empire without its currency is no longer an empire. It becomes a memory.
Europe’s Theater of Denial
Europe, meanwhile, drifts deeper into denial. Brussels knows only one script: war. Every glitch, every rumor, every delay is recast as Russian aggression. The narrative matters more than truth.
Publics across the continent are effectively hostages to debt. They no longer vote for sovereign choices but for how to pay interest to creditors. Southern states that resist — Russia, Iran, Venezuela — are demonized and sanctioned. But who is more sovereign: indebted Italy, governed by Brussels, or ostracized Venezuela, which still controls its resources?
Even within Europe, dissenting voices emerge. Hungary’s Viktor Orbán calls NATO’s policy in Ukraine a proxy war and urges negotiations with Moscow. Such voices are rare, but they remind us that not all are willing to march into the abyss.
The Shift East
Meanwhile, Beijing positions itself as a new global capital. Military parades mark anniversaries of victory, hypersonic missiles are displayed, and leaders such as Putin and Kim Jong-un appear side by side. Asia now openly embraces its role as the gravitational center of world power.
Europe responds with hollow conferences and stale communiqués. The contrast is glaring: substance in the East, theater in the West.
A Multipolar Reality
The question now is not whether multipolarity will arrive, but how it will be structured. Perhaps what we call “the end of the world” is merely the end of their world: the world of U.S. debt, dollar supremacy, and Western propaganda.
Multipolarity is not a dream. It is already in motion. Each trade deal in local currencies, each rejection of Washington’s script, each alternative alliance brings it closer.
History is moving again. The Western empire is closing its chapter. But the story of humanity is far from finished. For the first time in centuries, it may finally be written by more than one hand.
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Raïs Neza Boneza is the author of fiction as well as non-fiction, poetry books and articles. He was born in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Former Zaïre). He is also an activist and peace practitioner. Raïs is convener of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment for Central and African Great Lakes and uses his work to promote artistic expressions as a means to deal with conflicts and maintaining mental wellbeing, spiritual growth and healing. He has travelled extensively in Africa and around the world as a lecturer, educator and consultant for various NGOs and institutions. His work is premised on art, healing, solidarity, peace, conflict transformation and human dignity issues. Raïs work also as freelance journalist based in Trondheim, Norway. You can reach him at rais.boneza@gmail.com. http://www.raisnezaboneza.no
Tags: Anti-imperialism, De-dollarization, European Union, India, Multipolar World Order, US empire
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