Western Leaders Lament 'Old World Order' (The One They Designed)
Merz, leader of Germany's CDU, publicly expressed concern over the unraveling of 'decades of established transatlantic norms and agreements,' according to RT. This isn't news, but rather a whimper from a system built on post-WWII arrangements and colonial legacies that much of the world was never 'ordered' into in the first place. The 'order' he pines for was, for many, an era of continued
exploitation under a thinly veiled guise of 'values.' One might ask: whose 'old world order' are we talking about here? Certainly not one that benefited the millions subjected to resource extraction and proxy wars. The current 'disorder' is merely the predictable consequence of a world refusing to perpetually underwrite the prosperity of a few. It’s hard to mourn the passing of a benevolent global
stewardship when that stewardship often involved sanctioning dissenting nations, installing compliant regimes, and conveniently overlooking international law when inconvenient. Perhaps the 'old world order' isn't ending, but rather, the rest of the world is finally joining it.