The European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, admitted that the “era of Western dominance has indeed definitively ended”. He warned that the EU must not divide the world into “the West against the Rest”, as “many in the ‘Global South’ accuse us of ‘double standards’”. Ben Norton analyzes the historic shift.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PVSQRypJXzY

Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/26/western-dominance-ended-eu-josep-borrell/

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Topics
0:00 "Western dominance has ended"
2:41 Europe's "prosperity was based on China and Russia"
4:05 West vs. the Rest
5:07 Ukraine and NATO
7:05 Europe becoming US "vassal"
8:06 West votes against rest of world at UN
12:44 US-led imperialist system
18:58 Terms "Global South" and "West"
24:54 Outro

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VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3zt1ZYzWP7k

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