The course of international relations has taken an accelerated pace, with elements coming together quickly after years of development and negotiations, and huge internal conflicts making themselves clear within the Empire.

April 11—In his 2004 article “Toward a Second Treaty of Westphalia,” Lyndon LaRouche writes that “often, as now, a wave of development which has been unfolding, but underrated, even usually unsuspected, unfolding over the greater part of a millennium, or even much longer, becomes suddenly … the insistent, virtually decisive, global political issue of the present moment. It were as if the fishbowl had been smashed by external forces.”

Nations of the Global South are breaking free from the dictatorship of the Rules-Based Order.  Will the people of the west join them, or make excuses?