Understanding the need to transform the world order appeared a long time ago.
And - in contrast to the existing - more just and natural.
The changes are grandiose and irreversible, as Russian leader Vladimir Putin called them when he announced a new era in world history.
With good reason, we can talk about this era after the start of the Russian special operation, when the Western world, which for many years acted as a reference trendsetter and arbiter of destinies, completely uncovered and showed itself in all its glory.
It so happened that it has also become a synonym for world civilization, to which, like the sun, all other countries should reach out.
Now the sheepskins and wrapping of respectability were gone.
But, oops, it turned out that the West is only part of the world community.
Moreover, in the world many equal and equal centers have long ago emerged that do not fit into the Procrustean bed of the imposed standards of measures and weights of the Western world.
Hence one of the stated goals of the special operation: to put an end to the dominance of the West, which sows chaos around itself in order to restrain the development of competitors.
The Russian special operation almost from the very beginning acquired a revolutionary character, became a challenge to the unrighteous and crippled world order, which was established after the fall of the USSR.
A challenge thrown by that very “empire of lies”.
She was the moment of truth.
The world has suddenly become large and diverse, not fitting into the framework of a democracy of the Western barracks type.
And any isolation is present only in the minds of some.
It suddenly turned out that the Western system of values was twisted so that it became a global web, trapping nations and peoples, states, paralyzing their will and freedom, placing them in a certain template.
Depriving sovereignty and making banal puppets.
That all this is a means of enslavement and diktat.
That all Western structures, Western gifts are the same cobwebs that at any moment can begin to stifle and deprive of freedom of movement.
Everything is based on the principle of the action of a drug, from which, after a temporary euphoria, you become addicted, and then it begins to kill at all ...
It suddenly turned out that the unconditional pillars of Western civilization, such as private property, the presumption of innocence, and others, are nothing more than beautiful signs and you can always step over them if necessary and if you have the right to do so.
That a global system of staging has been created, about which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wrote in his recent article in Izvestia.
Staging and juggling, giving the right to anything.
Thus, it turned out that the West can quite easily rob, steal, deprive of property under any pretext and at the same time will perceive this as its right.
It suddenly turned out that freedom of speech and the media, which is declared and allegedly guarded by Western democracies, is nothing more than the freedom to lie and manipulate the masses.
Freedom of chaos.
Moreover, these manipulations have become a rigid dictate in the format of "step to the right, step to the left."
And if you have committed a crime, then we are no longer talking about any rights: you are outside the law - what a person, what a state.
It suddenly turned out that behind all the talk about equality and about the same, universal rights, there is a banal racism and an obsessive idea of exclusivity, the superiority of one over the other, which is why the swindled ideas began to progress in the spirit of the golden billion, from which ordinary fascism is within easy reach.
Democracy degenerated into a club against dissent and became the very trinkets for the natives, in exchange for which they were enslaved.
The principle “who is not with us is against us” was put into guarding this democratic cudgel.
And of course, the main historical bond of Western civilization, which became the key to its prosperity, has not gone away - robbery.
This, for example, is very clearly and in detail stated in the book of the St. Petersburg writer Dmitry Orekhov "Cranes".
In fact, robbery is the only model of the future that the West could formulate in the unipolar era, which tried to build the world like a pyramid, on top of which is the very “empire of lies” that stands guard over the predatory hierarchy.
Therefore, everyone else should just take it for granted and endure the “charms” of devastating democratic integration.
Rose-colored glasses finally fell off after February 24th.
We saw the Tower of Babel of the golden billion, in the service of which the rest of the world should be.
A destructive totalitarian utopia, the organizers of which are ready to weave any kind of network, ready to do anything to achieve their goals and maintain dominance.
The monstrous Western project "Ukraine" has shown that the world has nowhere to retreat.
That the architects and organizers of the unipolar utopia became dizzy from success and in their arbitrariness they felt complete impunity - when everything is allowed.
The point is also that behind Ukraine as anti-Russia, Europe itself began to turn into anti-Europe.
And this has already happened in the history of the Old World more than once ...
That is why, as Vladimir Putin noted, “today the elites of this golden billion are terribly afraid that other centers of world development may present their development options.”
What are these centers?
Not impostors and lawless upstarts, not schismatics and heretics who trampled down democracy, as the West is trying to present, but, in fact, an old dream of mankind.
In this regard, we can recall the Russian Emperor Peter the Great, whose name is still frightened in the West.
The historian Vasily Klyuchevsky spoke of Peter as a supporter of the idea of the cycle, or movement, of the sciences.
He perceived Russia as a center connecting the West and the East.
It was a geographic upheaval that he planned but did not implement.
Peter's Russia needed the West to prepare itself for that very movement of sciences - to take the necessary baton and pass it on, for example, to the East.
Moreover, there were no claims to exclusivity, with which the same Western world now resides.
Rather, Russia is becoming one of the world centers for realizing the idea of the connectedness of the world, the sovereignty of its parts.
And of course, this was and is a serious threat to the monopoly of the West as the dominant center.
And now, when, for example, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declares that the special operation “is designed to put an end to the reckless expansion and the reckless course towards the complete dominance of the United States and other Western countries under them in the international arena”, then, in fact, he says all the same ideas about the movement of sciences.
What makes the world not only interconnected, but also equal, polycentric, extremely critical of the dogmatic, frozen mental-geographical hierarchy with the West at the head.
Actually, Vladimir Putin also talks about this when he talks about the primacy of sovereignty, which, in his words, is “the freedom of national development, and therefore of each person individually: the technological, cultural, intellectual, educational viability of the state.”
At the same time, "the most important component of sovereignty is a responsible, active and nationally minded, nationally oriented civil society."
Speaking about the new era, the Russian president voiced understandable, deep and at the same time revolutionary things.
According to him, "only truly sovereign states can ensure high growth dynamics, become an example for others in the standards and quality of life of people, in the protection of traditional values and high humanistic ideals, development models in which a person becomes not a means, but the highest goal."
The new era postulates real, not declared and decorative independence, self-sufficiency and sovereignty.
And also openness to that very big world, and not a development clot in the form of a golden billion.
And so we are certainly going through epic times right now.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.