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Qualitatively New Challenges, Encroachments, and Attacks on the Polycentric World Order and Their Logic
With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, world politics and economics have entered a qualitatively new transformational period, initiating which the President, the American Administration, the Republican Party and the political forces behind them expect to reformat the modern world order to suit their unilateral interests. What and how they do it today, in most cases, causes an extremely acute and predominantly negative reaction. It is all the more important to weigh and objectively assess, as is done in this article, not only the radically new elements in the greatly changed domestic and foreign policy of the United States and the reaction to them of the allies, competitors and rivals of the United States, primarily the European Union and its Member States, but also the current state of world politics and economics and their inherent vices. At the same time, first of all, it should be remembered that the brotherhood in arms and the victory in World War II over Nazi Germany and Militaristic Japan created uniquely favorable conditions for a much more reliable and just world order, compared with all previous periods of world development. Moscow made the most effective use of them, thanks to which it was possible to solve several interrelated tasks of enormous geopolitical importance, laying down the basic parameters of the future. The United Nations, having won the war, established a world security organization that cannot be used against any of the permanent members of its Security Council and legitimize aggression. At the San Francisco Conference, they adopted the UN Charter, which formed a meta-system of international law that rejects the use of armed force to achieve foreign policy goals, the violation of the sovereign equality of states, interference in the internal affairs of states, and the elevation of the violation of human rights and freedoms to an instrument for implementing state policy. Modern international law grew out of the UN Charter, and its development in full compliance with the UN Charter paved the way for achieving political decolonization of countries belonging to the Global Majority and the economic revival of such giants as China and India. Therefore, the attack on the United Nations, the UN Charter, and modern international law, which is being waged today by the United States, NATO, the EU, their Member States, and countries dependent on them, must be countered by a united front of friendly states. It is necessary to jointly replace political programs such as “this or that country Above all else” with a fundamentally different one: “human civilization and a normally functioning world economy that is beneficial to all countries Above all”.