by BEN NORTON
If Ukraine loses in the NATO proxy war with Russia, “it will be the end of Western hegemony”, lamented former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while the Global South remains neutral.
The former prime minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, has lamented that, if NATO ally Ukraine loses its war with Russia, it would mean the end of Western dominance over the world.
“If Ukraine falls, it will be a catastrophe for the West; it will be the end of Western hegemony”, Johnson complained.
The former Conservative Party leader made these comments in a video and article published on April 12 by the right-wing British tabloid the Daily Mail.
Johnson called on NATO members to supply Ukraine with more weapons, arguing that, if Kiev loses to Moscow, “It will be a total humiliation for the West — the first time in the 75 years of Nato’s existence that this hitherto successful alliance has been utterly routed — and on European soil”.
“It will be a turning point in history, the moment when the West finally loses its post-war hegemony”, he complained.
The vast majority of the world has not joined the West in its new cold war on Russia.
Two former US diplomats published an article in Newsweek in 2022 lamenting that, “While the United States and its closest allies in Europe and Asia have imposed tough economic sanctions on Moscow, 87 percent of the world’s population has declined to follow us”.
It is only the Global North, or the collective West, that has imposed sanctions on Russia: North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the US allies in Japan, South Korea, and China’s Taiwan province (which is governed by pro-Western political forces).
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