Sometimes “years of horror”, “years of terror” and “years of lead” turn into “a decade of chaos”, “a black decade” or “lost decade”, and these inevitably lead to a “age of anxiety”, “a time of humiliation” or “age of decline”. So should we prepare for a longer period of uncertainty and times of sadness? Are there fresh “dark ages” ahead?
The experience and laws of nature teach us that all night the morning comes and a fresh day comes. However, as past teaches us, dark times – although they match the night – do not always end as rapidly as it does. Sometimes “years of horror”, “years of terror” and “years of lead” turn into “a decade of chaos”, “a black decade” or “lost decade”, and these inevitably lead to a “age of anxiety”, “a time of humiliation” or “age of decline”. So should we prepare for a longer period of uncertainty and times of sadness? Are there fresh “dark ages” ahead?
Age of Reconstruction
With the bare eye you can see and see it together with all available mass media and mass communication, how the era of Western domination ends, and with large probability the West simply ends. However, it is not about creating another apocalyptic-decaden tales, which we have already heard many in our history, which as usual can – but do not gotta – come true, and so thoroughly and widely were discussed by philosophers. It's more about calling the right words of the planet we all watch. This planet has changed in fresh years and this planet is changing all the time in front of our eyes – even all day we watch this change on our smartphone screens. Undoubtedly, the symbol of this change – not necessarily only its contractor – is American president Donald Trump. Although many attribute to him a very messianic ability to remove America from the imagery of supposedly "leftist" traps and errors, in fact he is simply an expressor of certain changes, both intellectual and geopolitical, which in the American imagination and global reality have already been made or have just been made. If you can talk about any of his "dewards" in this case, then at the very least changes in this acceleration.
Trump is like a “revolution icebreaker” who prepares the ground for a extremist – revolutionary even – change of order, while participating in this change. In this case Trump is an icebreaker of the Western era – although he himself is an component of the Western system, at the same time both prepares the foundations for a fresh order, which will arise on the ruins of the same and assumes the function of a stormer, which undertakes tangible actions that accelerate this fall. However, if Trump had read Suvorov, he would have known that the icebreaker was not necessarily reaching its intended destination. The U.S. president believes that a change of order – after all, is happening in front of us, here and now! – will come quickly, a fresh order unparadoxedly will form on ruins, and he will become 1 of the chief figures of this fresh world. Nothing more wrong. Most likely, this icebreaker will gotta remainder on the rubble of the old planet and will not cost the fruitage of what will grow on the ruins of the erstwhile Western power. The icebreaker, although bringing the West into the era of reconstruction, will never see the end of this process and will surely not become its beneficiary. And who will benefit from these changes? We don't know that yet.
Trump symbolizes the end of the West and at the same time through it this end The West is coming true. The United States under its leadership is taking the first step towards withdrawing from the American-European alliance, which became the foundation of the planet created after planet War II. erstwhile on 2 April 2025 in the rose garden of the White home Trump announced Liberation Day (Liberation Day) and began the tariff-customs offensive against the full world, de facto concluded a period of enhanced economical cooperation between the United States and Europe. Of course, he did not finish it overnight (it is impossible to do specified a thing!), due to the fact that the ongoing and deepening decades, close trade relations between both sides of the Atlantic, simply cannot end. However, he clearly demonstrated that these relations are no longer a precedence for Americans. erstwhile he said in March 2025 that "in 1 way or another", but would lead to Greenland, de facto concluded a period of enhanced political cooperation between America and Europe. Although we do not see the effects of these changes for apparent reasons yet, there is no request for illusions: these changes have already taken place and there is no return to status quo ante. All we can do in Europe is accept this order of things and prepare for a fresh world.
World War
The era of reconstruction will be a turbulent, unstable and unpredictable period. Moreover, fresh years, in peculiar the fresh months, show how this instability is slow spreading to subsequent regions and spheres of life. The planet will fall into war in this period... In fact, this war began any time ago! Yes, we are witnessing the first appearances of the war on the world. But let us remember that the “war for the world” does not should be stricto sense "world war" is not necessarily accompanied by global bomb explosions, mass migrations, cultural cleansing, border changes and civilian casualties. The greats of this planet have in modern times more tools to wage this kind of war, though – let us not be deceived – they besides usage the instruments of conventional war whenever it is in their interest. The scenes of the fresh war on the planet are already observed, for example, through social media: bombing of Ukraine by Russians, brought by Belarusian services migrants utilized to storm borders with Poland and Lithuania, provocations and incidents at sea and in the air, border maneuvers, undermining the position of state territories and strategical areas, information war and disinformation etc.
Perhaps it is crucial for many to ask whether the planet War will become planet War III. If the decision on it depended on the United States led by the MEGA movement or by the war dictatorship which Putin of the Russian Federation had made, the answer would not have been obvious. However, the performance of the powers of the current era of reconstruction is simply a puzzle much more complex than in the post-Jaltan era. The multipolarism of the modern planet makes decisions about crucial interventions concerning the way war is conducted as a consequence of multi-level – network – calculation of interests and forces. Relations between countries and another actors in global relations in a globalised planet are intertwined and intertwined. There is no another entity too this web entanglement that would play any meaning in this war. 1 decision may consequence in a succession of successive decisions, and these ricochets may affect the decisive one. The butterfly effect in the modern globalized planet can immediately undo the calculations of the most dry strategist. Paradoxically, the most crucial instrument of the top commanders of the current war spectacle is caution.
War for the modern planet is simply a war of foxes, not a hedgehog! Although Isaiah Berlin in its celebrated essay advises that the actual political leader should be both a fox and a hedgehog, the foxes turn out to be more effective in times of turmoil. The hedgehog is guided by 1 rule of the world, which he wants to realize. He is focused on achieving the goal, determined due to the fact that he believes in his imagination and wants to stay faithful to his ideas. Meanwhile, the fox accepts chaos and disorder, understands that the planet is full of contradictions, feeds on pluralism and diversity, remains realistic and flexible, although it lacks empathy. Dealing with the planet in an era of disorder and reconstruction for the hedgehog will prove to be an impossible task, only a fox will be found in it. The hedgehog is dogmatic, blind to the complexity and complexity of the planet around us – the more complicated the chaos. Berlin warned that the top tragedies of the planet happen erstwhile hedgehogs regulation the world, which forget that the planet per se He's a fox. If we look at the leaders of countries playing a key function in the fresh power concert, then we will undoubtedly be able to see both hedgehogs and foxes. This may show us which of the paths of redevelopment of the global order will prove victorious.
World After War
Looking at the modern world, it seems certain that this planet will stay a multipolar planet after the war. We had many epochs in human past that were based on multilateralism: from Chinese states during the fighting kingdoms (V-III BC) and the Hellenistic planet after Alexander Macedonian (IV-II BC), through the planet of Islam and Eurasia between the X and XIII centuries, to the European order after the Vienna legislature (1815-1853) and the planet before the First planet War (1871-1914). surely the advantage of multipolar planet systems is the deficiency of 1 hegemon defining the rules of the game and a naturally evolving balance of forces. The possible collapse of 1 of the entities forming part of the interdependencies strategy usually does not lead to a collapse of the full order. Although alliances are variable and flexible, smaller global actors are able to balance between different centres more effectively and more actively. There is no one, strong and dominant guardian of the rules in this system, strong adequate to be able to force another actors to obey the rules. The instability of alliances can consequence in chaos and rivalry, which in turn can lead to conflicts – although these are usually insignificant conflicts.
The multicentricity of the post-Western planet will make the post-West, i.e. the separately perceived United States, Canada, Europe and Australia, become regional powers, but no of them will be able to claim to be a planet hegemon. no of them will be the United States either. The meaning of the West as a full will fall, due to the fact that de facto The West as a full will simply cease to exist. Each of the post-West actors will be forced to build fresh interdependencies, both regional and those that will let to regulate relations with the world's top powers. Europe has this capacity and is able, under the name of the European Union, to enter into bilateral agreements not only with Americans, but besides with Canada, China, India, Brazil or circumstantial blocks of Latin American, arabian or African states. Europe's position in forming specified a fresh network of interdependencies in the post-Western planet seems to be rather good and prompting expanding regional powers to get along and deal with Europeans. This, however, requires not only courage and political realism, but first the liberation from the snares of intellectual captivity, in which a dominant part of the European elite was found, attached to the mythology of the West and the professional function of America.
There is 1 more thing: the command center of this fresh after-west planet will be located somewhere close Indo-Pacific. It is in this area that the 3 key axes of power are intertwined: economic, military and technological. After all, 60% of the world's GDP is generated in the Indo-Pacific region, with more than half of the world's population surviving here and the world's fastest increasing economies. Through Indo-Pacific there are key routes for planet trade: the South-China Sea, the Malakka Strait and the Taiwan Strait – it is these routes that most of the world's production of electronic devices and technological components, as well as energy resources from another parts of the world, flows through. This Indo-Pacific is yet the heart of advanced semiconductors, which are the key to technological improvement present – it is hard to imagine without them not only the improvement of artificial intelligence tools, but besides the production of state-of-the-art weapons or effective energy transformation. It is in this part of the planet that the arms sector is presently developing rapidly, and hypersonic rockets and space weapons are just examples produced here and purchased by the largest countries of technology.
Europe’s Hopes
Although this multipolar world, which will appear after the fresh war for its order and organization, remains a mystery and unknown to us, we are already able to tell about it. Importantly, experts have described this future after-west planet for respective decades and it is truly adequate to read it sometimes or perceive to it, to prepare for what is coming and new. The groans and cries that any European orphans in the West will surely hear many times, but the thing not to weep senselessly, but to arm ourselves – not only militarily – for what will come (and, it seems, must come). Europe seems to be doing rather well in these preparations, although its leaders must hit their chests and admit that in fresh decades they have been napping peacefully, pretending that they do not see everything that has happened around them. A 2016 Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Canada (CETA), negotiated in 2019 with Mercosur, or a resumption in 2022 and the conclusion in 2026 of negotiations on an appropriate agreement with India, is tangible evidence that Europe is trying to find itself on the fresh future chessboard of the world. Regardless of the controversy surrounding each of these agreements, it is evident that Europeans are not going to humbly bow their heads before the Chinese power or beg for mercy and halt the icebreaker by the current tenant of the White House. Is the sun going to emergence after the coming or already ongoing war? Yes, it will, but we don't know how long the war will last.
