Hello and welcome to Real Politics. I am your host, Firas Wadad. This is the first episode of a new show

dealing with global geopolitical developments and political change. I thought I'd start us off with a

summary of where we are today and what is going on in the world around us. I wanted to give an

evaluation of what's happening, what's the West situation, and where do we

see things going forward? And more importantly, why is the world the way it is today?

The unipolar moment that happened after the end of the Cold War is pretty much over.

The Americans are no longer the only major geopolitical player in the world. The Russians have risen,

the Chinese have risen, and a bunch of other countries like Turkey and Pakistan and India

are able to assert their autonomy and pursue their interests regardless of what the Americans

think. More importantly, we are now in a situation where there's a de facto alliance

between China, Russia, and Iran. This is particularly important. If you look at the history of World

War I and World War II, the strategic impetus, aside from any moral questions, for the intervention of the United Kingdom and the United States

in those wars was to ensure that Russia and Germany didn't form a single combine

whereby Russian natural resources would be feeding the German industrial machine and that combine would

then be able to dominate the Eurasian landmass and become a major challenger to a naval power

like Britain or the United States. Well, thanks to sanctions on China, pressure on Russia, pressure on Iran, now a much bigger industrial

machine, the Chinese industrial machine, can rely on the resources of not just Russia, but also

those of Iran as well. And if you just look at a map and accept that, you know, the Chinese have an alliance with Pakistan,

you can see that between Russia, China, and Iran and Pakistan, the Eurasian landmass is locked.

And all of the resources of Asia and of Russia are going to be feeding an industrial

machine that is much more capable than that of the West.

If you look at technology today, China is the technological leader in a huge range of industries,

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