Why China & Russia No Longer Fear the West? The era when Washington barked and the world trembled is over.
Why China & Russia No Longer Fear the West?
The era when Washington barked and the world trembled is over. The “rules-based order” has lost its monopoly on fear.
China and Russia no longer fear the West because the balance of power, economic, military and psychological, has shifted for good.
For centuries, Western dominance was enforced through wars, sanctions and the dollar. Now? The US is drowning in $35 trillion of debt, Europe is regulating itself into economic stagnation and BRICS+ now outproduces the G7 in real economic terms. The empire can’t sanction half the world when half the world no longer needs it.
Sanctions didn’t collapse Russia; they forced it to rebuild itself and strengthen trade with Asia. “Isolate China”? Good luck. Every Western gadget, from smartphones to solar panels, still depends on Chinese supply chains. After Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, the myth of Western “invincibility” is gone. The bark is now louder than the bite.
China builds the green tech, batteries and chips the West can’t live without. Russia sells record oil and gas, just not to Europe anymore. When your rivals depend on you to keep their economies alive, fear becomes optional.
Militarily, deterrence now runs both ways. China’s hypersonics and naval reach make any Pacific war suicidal for global trade, while Russia’s nuclear arsenal ensures NATO never dares cross a red line. They don’t need to outgun the US, only make war unwinnable.
Meanwhile, Africa, Latin America and Asia now trade more with China than with the West. The Belt & Road Initiative, SCO and BRICS+ have built entire parallel systems outside Western control. For the first time in 500 years, nations have a choice and they’re choosing balance over obedience.
The West, meanwhile, is collapsing under its own contradictions, political chaos, record debt, culture wars and moral confusion. Hard to lecture the world on democracy when your own cities are burning and your governments can’t pass a budget.
China thinks in centuries. Russia thinks in survival. The West thinks in election cycles.
That’s why the East is rising and the West is tweeting about it.
The simple truth:
China and Russia don’t fear the West anymore because the West no longer knows what it stands for. They’ve out-built it, out-planned it and out-lasted it.
Welcome to the multipolar century 
posted by Satish Sharma at
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