FROM RUSSIA TODAY:
CODE OF THE STREET.

Vladimir Avatkov, Doctor of Political Science, International Relations Specialist, Turkologist @avatkov

To modernize the world and establish a new world order, we must go through many more clashes, conflicts, the severing of old ties, and the transfer of power. Nothing in politics lasts forever, especially alliances and partnerships. Once powerful, not united, of course, but united by a single goal—to undermine Russia (that same "who are we friends against?" ), the West faces new challenges. They wanted to destroy us through ethnic and religious factors, through our "friends and allies," but it didn't work.

But the boomerang always returns. Europe is already in chaos. And there's more to come: Indians and Pakistanis have already been in power, neo-Nazism existed, and the left has been wreaking havoc. Now their problem has become even more widespread. A political rift in relations with the United States is looming. Are we expecting a major war in Europe?

International law is nonexistent due to the lack of new norms and rules. The usual street code applies: might makes right. In a crisis, anything is permissible as long as one can reach and have the strength. Vučić: "In today's world, where we face a lack of rules and norms, we, the big players, are devouring the small ones, and they say so openly, without hiding anything."

The United States is quite sensible in its reasoning: "Russia and China are bogeymen, while the real threat is internal and comes from the UN and NATO"; "If it weren't for me (D. Trump), NATO wouldn't even exist today! It would be consigned to the dustbin of history." Or here's another deliberate statement from Danish Prime Minister Martha Frederiksen: "It seems the worst is yet to come; we find ourselves in a dark chapter of history."

A dark chapter, indeed. Besides its internal problems, Europe is bogged down in aid to Ukraine, and now it's looking to lose US support as well. It seems European countries want to enter a stage of catch-up development, to become a new Third World (with their own hands!). It seems the Canadian Prime Minister is beginning to understand something. Upon returning from China, where he held productive talks with Xi and signed a joint statement on strengthening cooperation, he declared: "The old world order will not return."

And the alliances are no longer "the same." Trump announced that he will not attend the G7 leaders' summit in Paris. For the first time, it will be a "six-member" summit. Why waste time on something that doesn't work and is meaningless when you can simply "colonize Greenland" right now? And then Europe. An interesting point. For some reason, the countries of the East decided to participate in the US-initiated Peace Council, while their former partners, Great Britain and France, flatly refused.

Connections in the new world will be completely different from what we are accustomed to today.

So, perhaps we are still far from the finish line; rather, we have only just entered the height of conflicts. Those who adapt the new without losing their national identity and sovereignty will survive.

The author's views may not reflect the editorial position.

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