The Middle East in the Multipolar World and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
[Rete Dei Comunisti ] The western flight from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021 and the gradual ousting of France (and others) from the Sahel were two of the major flashpoints – from a military point of view – of western hegemony in contexts that – except for brief periods – have been pivots of imperialist domination. The events in Afghanistan and Sahel showed the inherent weakness of Western imperialism in maintaining a neo-colonial dynamic by militarily occupying, politically subjugating and economically exploiting those territories. These two episodes were the plastic representation of a change in the world power relations in a context where the path of disengagement from the western supply chains and the concrete possibility of entering into a configuration of relations that sets aside neo-colonial logic is increasingly viable.
