{"id":12870,"date":"2022-04-04T07:10:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T07:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/russian-nato-military-confrontation-who-lost-it"},"modified":"2022-04-04T07:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T07:51:25","slug":"russian-nato-military-confrontation-who-lost-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/russian-nato-military-confrontation-who-lost-it","title":{"rendered":"Russian-NATO military confrontation: Who lost it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>In what must have been a very uncomfortable read for Western academics and high-street moralisers, the Singaporean scholar, author and ex-diplomat Kishore Mahbubani published in 2018 one of his more biting essays as a small book titled provocatively \u2018Has the West Lost It?\u2019.<\/p>\n

In it he argued passionately that the Western constructs of democracy and reason, remain essential to enduring world peace and stability but these can no longer be an imposed ideology on the world.<\/p>\n

The shift in global geo-economics towards the Asian powerhouses demanded adjustment and reassessment from the West for continued stability in the world order.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be a great tragedy,\u201d he concluded \u201cif the West were to be the world\u2019s primary instigator of turbulence and uncertainty at the hour of humanity\u2019s greatest promise.<\/p>\n

\u201d Little did he know how prescient his concluding words would be, as emerging from a planetary pandemic with unbounded hopes, a totally unnecessary and diplomatically avoidable Russian-NATO military confrontation over proxy Ukraine, dashes these aground and takes its dramatic toll.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Mauritius<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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