AMERICAN FREE PRESS:  If there is one word that separates the current President of the United States from his predecessors, it is pragmatism.

As far as I am aware, no other US head of state has been as unequivocal in conceding that the period of American supremacy is over.

On August 5, Donald Trump yielded by declaring on Truth Social that “the US appears to have lost to Russia and India due to their deepening relationship with China.”

The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in China has emerged as one of the most significant political events in recent history.

It underscored the SCO’s growing role as a cornerstone of a multipolar world. It highlighted the Global South’s consolidation around the principles of sovereign development, non-interference, and its out-and-out rejection of the Western model of globalization.

The central guest at the summit was Russian President Vladimir Putin. His presence carried not only symbolic weight but strategic meaning as well.

Moscow continues to serve as a conduit among key players across Asia and the Middle East. It is set against the backdrop of the West’s fragmenting hegemony, leading to its increasing isolation.

Significantly was Moscow’s support for China’s proposal to diminish the clout of the politically discriminatory International Monetary Fund (IMF) by establishing an SCO Development Bank.

Independent of Western imperialism, such an institution could do more than just finance joint investment and infrastructure projects. It would help member states reduce the stranglehold of Western financial mechanisms like the IMF.

It would, at the same time, neuter American foreign policy by blunting the impact of coercive sanctions.

Such pressure has been part of Washington’s foreign policy for aeons. Russia, China, Iran, India, and others will look forward to the loosening of fiscal shackles.

LEFT. Unelected Ursula von der Leyen EU President heads a shrinking splintering outcast bloc.

URSULA Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s simultaneous arrival in Beijing underscored New Delhi’s strategic flexibility and its readiness to maintain solidarity with Russia and China.

Push back against relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, the visit amounted to a clear statement of India’s sovereignty.

In this context, Russia once again played the role of mediator, helping to prevent Western attempts to exploit Sino-Indian tensions.

In the meantime, Indian diplomacy avoids open confrontation with the United States and stresses pragmatism. Yet the message is clear: New Delhi will not accept external dictates, especially on issues that touch national and regional priorities.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also made the trip to China. The leader of NATO’s largest member state attending the SCO summit sent a clear signal about Ankara’s push to assert a more self-determining foreign policy.

For several years, Turkey has sought to expand its role within the organization, moves that have irritated European capitals, which see them as an unwelcome departure from Euro-Atlantic solidarity.

The mix of growing participants showed how the SCO is moving beyond Eurasia and evolving into the nucleus of an alternative globalization, one rooted in the diversity of international political systems and development models.

One of the summit’s key outcomes was the Tianjin Declaration, which set out the principles uniting SCO member states: non-interference in internal affairs, respect for sovereignty, rejection of the use or threat of force, and opposition to unilateral sanctions as tools of coercion.

LEFT: Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, has lost her prominent role in world affairs.

The summit in China delivered more than programmatic decisions; it offered confirmation of a multipolar world order, a concept Vladimir Putin has advanced for years.

Multipolarity is no longer theoretical. It has taken recognized form in the SCO, which is steadily expanding and gaining international authority.

At present, the SCO is reviewing applications from over ten candidate nations seeking observer or dialogue partner status. This shows direct evidence of growing interest in the SCO as an alternative center of power to America in global politics.

The Western Alliance deprives itself of the essential resources of Iran.

has Equally noteworthy is the surge of interest from the Arab world. Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are already SCO dialogue partners.

The SCO is a fast-emerging, unstoppable institution that challenges Western hegemony not with rhetoric, but with expanding membership, growing economic clout, and a common political vision.

From Beijing, the message resonated loudly: the age of Western hegemony is over. Multipolarity is no longer a theory; it is the reality of global politics, and the SCO is the engine driving it forward.

The formula that has gained currency in Moscow, “not against the West, but without it,” is finally becoming reality. Western powers that ignore the new centers of power in Asia and Eurasia are being left behind.

Time will show who is right, but without Russian and Iranian resources, it will be extremely difficult for the West to implement its projects.

Russia, represented by Putin, has emerged as one of the main actors, the architects of a new world order where there is no place for the hegemony of individual countries. You can share this story on social media: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK.

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