The world was tilted to European domination from 1800 till recent time. Europe and the United States of America have enjoyed untouchable freedom to do whatever they liked until the resurrection of Russia, and the sudden emergence of China on the world scene. The collapse of German wall, termed Berlin Wall on the 9th November 1989, rendered Russia weak and the West temporarily assumed superiority with scorn and propaganda. The contempt against Russia by the West since the collapse of the Soviet Union on 25th December, 1991 has been without regard to the emotion of the people and their nation. So much lies were peddled against Russia to force the world to believe that Russia was nothing but a laughing stock. This worked well for the West, Europe and America until recently when the world began to learn that Russia was not what the West claimed they were.

The occupation of Hong Kong by the British from 1841 to 1997 gave the West a false impression. Never mind the occupation of Hong Kong by the Japanese from 1941 to 1945. The West believed that the Chinese would never rise again hence they hesitated in handing over Hong Kong to China in 1997. The down fall of a man is not the end of his life. China was a superpower, and same as Russia however, the West derided them, believing that they would not rise again.  The West supremacy enjoyed long spell of honour as Africa became their private asset which resulted to the Berlin Conference 1884-1885. The British crept into Nigeria trade in 1879 with the formation of United African Company (UAC). King Leopold 11 treated Congo as his private business from 1885 -1908. France occupied Algeria in 1830 and took over West Africa in 1895. All the European countries treated Africa as a private estate. No wonder they termed Africa a dark continent.

History had it that France lost heavily in the Prussian war in 1871. Prussian includes Germany, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Denmark, Belgium and Czech republic. The Berlin Conference 1884-85 which was organised by Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor was to split Africa to stop Europe fighting each other. Since the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev on 25th December 1991, the West with USA has treated the world as their private business, reliving European actions one hundred years after. From 1991 to the recent time, the West thought that the rest of the world has been subdued, hence they do what they like, dictating to the world how it should behave. They dominated and controlled the world through United Nations, IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organisation and others. Their actions were backed by military might of NATO. They dictated and still dictate to governments; change regime at will and bully the entire world. Through their economic policies, they crippled the economies of other countries of the world. Europe used African as a testing ground for anything, weird economic policies, lending policies, Paris club, military intimidation and others. Little did they know that China was fast developing, and Russia has risen out of the ashes of the old Soviet Union (USSR). In fact, President Boris Yeltsin of Russia was almost treated as a joke. The man was shown to the world as a drunk. No one thought that Russia would ever rise again. As Gorbachev before him, suddenly President Boris Yeltsin announced his resignation on 31st December 1999, thereby paving the way for the young Vladimir Putin who took over from him. Since the election of Vladimir Putin as president of Russia on 26th March, 2000 Russia has been on the way up, however the West did not take it seriously. They saw President Putin as that KGB agent who could do nothing but to spy on the West. The West concluded that they had the world at their finger tip. Well, the West is not smiling now, are they?

President Vladimir Putin deserves credit. He is a factor and a force to be reckoned with. He has brought Russia back from the cold. In partnership with China, Russia began to reshape the imbalanced world where the West do what they want, intimidate governments, decide the fate of any country, carry out regime change at will and simply behaved like the world is their property. Governments are scared to death. Any opposition is dealt with economic sanctions, followed by military action. United Nations becomes their controlling tool, agent of the West. Who can forget in a hurry the destruction of Iraq and Libya? It was just a matter of days and the resistance was over. The world was tilted dangerously in favour of the West. The West could do no wrong. The god of the universe, the almighty of the world, sitting in Europe and America, decides who does what in each country. Any opposition is termed as evil. Axis of evil as President George Bush junior called it. Through President Vladimir Putin, Russia regained their lost glory, and is repositioning themselves again in the politics and economic affairs of the world. Having watched Iraq and Libya ruined, President Putin said enough is enough. As Russia was being portrayed as poor, ineffective and corrupt, little did the world know that Russia supplies gas to all Europe. Whosoever supplies gas to the whole of Europe must be a rich nation. Without a shred of doubt, Russia is a rich nation, richer than any European nations yet Europe carried out propaganda against them for years. Should Russia decides to turn their gas supply off, Europe would be frozen in  a matter of minutes. With the help of Russia and China, the world now has a choice which was non-existent in the hands of the West. Having being carried away by success, the West has now woken up to realise that Russia and China have arrived at their door step, and they begin to wonder what has happened hence they are throwing everything a Russia, including the kitchen sink to distract it from its mission of taking some of their loot.

Is it too late for the West? Has Russia arrived once again on the world stage? Is the world safe from the hands of Europe? Time will tell. The world now has choices to make. A nation can choose the bullying tactics and the oppressive strategy of the West or they can choose the cash offer of China or military protection of Russia. Syria can thank Almighty God that the West did not lay their hands on their leaders. What happened to Saddam and Gaddafi would have been a child’s play. Anyway, while they did not reach Damascus, the damage inflicted on Syria will take many decades to repair. All these were egged on and supported by the Western media. Who cares? While the West destroys nations with their military and economic might, they use their engineers and Paris Club to repair them at the expense of the victims. What a wicket world? Now the triangular world is being played on. The West with USA, Russia and China at the other ends are all positioning themselves to repartition the world once again. Secretly and quietly the governments of the world are having their sighs of relief. Gradually they are planning to decamp from the train of Western alliance. The alliance of nations put together by fear and intimidation. He who is not with us must be bombed and destroyed. Good men were demonised and destroyed. The West approach nations as a friend and destroy them as an enemy when they disagree with them. They damaged the economies of nations without conscience. They did it to Russia and were surprised that Russia withstood all the economic sanctions designed to destroy their economy. They used their number at the United Nations to destroy Russia politically but observed that whatever they do to destabilise Russia is used as a motivator by Russians. Russia is growing stronger and stronger with China at the background, and this has frightened the West as they cannot imagine losing their grip on the world. The world that the West has enjoyed its for more than hundred years.

The game of repartition of the world is being played out. Where is Africa in all these? The world is more dangerous as it is now. Africa has no friend in Europe. The West seeks for their pocket hence they call it economic and political interest. For the West to know what the rest of the world think about their bully, let them carry out a secret ballot. The result would be shocking. All the third world nations have been bullied into submitting to the dictate of the West. The West manipulates economies to their advantage. They intimidated nations to surrender their mineral resources to them and they decide what to pay and how to pay it. At the United Nations, black is turned to white and nations would be intimidated into voting for the West. United nations take decisions according to the wish of the West. No nations other than Russia and China dare challenge their wish. Now that Russia and China have announced their arrival at the world centre stage, and India is quietly creeping in, it would be a matter of time when push and shove would be played out between the world powers at the world stage. It will only get worse before it gets better. He who has ear let him hear.

 

By Oguchi Martins Egbujor

UK based Lecturer of Strategic Management