A multipolar world is around the corner
And that is not good news. Especially not if the fascists in the kremlin invades us.
Spoiler: This post is the English version of a letter to Borås Tidning. The letter was published 23 March this year but I didn’t find it until this morning. There are two reasons why i didn’t find it earlier. It was behind a paywall and I did not send it directly to Borås Tidning. I uploaded it on a website Insändarmaskinen, which is sort of an intermediary between writers and papers. Anyway, the letter is about the consequences of the end of Pax Americana and the dawn of the Multipolar World where China, Iran, muscovy, North Korea, Syria and other dictatorships rule the world. The focus of the letter is what happens to us in Sweden if muscovy wins its genocidal war against Ukraine and then continues its wars to restore its empire. We will also be attacked and in the worst case scenario, occupied and colonised by the fascists in the kremlin.
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All those people who for years have amplified the kremlin's demands for a new world order are happy now. The era of Pax Americana is over. In its place, authoritarian and fascist regimes emerge to enforce territorial claims.
The fascist regime in the kremlin is not only waging a genocidal war against Ukraine. It also helps the Syrian dictator Assad to murder his population. In Africa, the kremlin sends the Wagner group to help dictatorships in exchange for diamonds and other natural resources. The kremlins allies are also busy. The mullahs in Iran send assassins to Sweden to kill Jews and order Huthir rebels to shell unarmed merchant ships from Western countries in the Red Sea.
In Asia, the Communist regime in Beijing is studying Western reactions to the kremlin's war as it plans to attack democratic Taiwan. North Korea is training its army for a new attempt to conquer democratic South Korea.
We who live in the Baltic and Nordic countries are more affected by the aggressive ambitions of the kremlin regime than the other dictatorships. At Russia's borders with the Baltic countries, the kremlin has raised large billboards stating "Russia's borders end nowhere". What is happening in Ukraine may soon happen in the Baltics, Poland and here as well.
In that case, the people who end up under the kremlin's rule can count on the same treatment as the Ukrainians who are on occupied land. Human liberties and rights are crushed under the fascists’ boots. Our free and independent media are replaced by kremlin propaganda. The judiciary is placed under the kremlin's control and tasked with handing out long prison terms and death sentences to opposition figures.
Those who do not share russian values are persecuted, imprisoned to be tortured, and executed in the concentration camps that are built all over the country. Women and children are gang raped by russian soliders. Oppositional and LGBTQI people are branded as decadent and perverse.
Our society is being transformed. The russian Orthodox Church becomes the state church while other faiths are banned or opposed. Our national cultural institutions, objects and literature are demolished, destroyed and burned.
Teaching in russian is introduced in the schools. The pupils and students will be indoctrinated to become full-blooded fascists. They will be fed with notions that emphasize russia's “glorious” role in history. The children are encouraged to join the paramilitary youth organizations that Putin is so fond of. The women's most important task will be to give birth to new russians. The men are forced into the russian army to be used as cannon fodder in future wars.
The kremlin is probably primarily trying to invade the Baltic countries, but also Poland, which Putin has an evil eye for. Thus we are drawn into the war.
Membership in NATO and the defense agreement with the United States means that we can both get help in defending our sovereignty and more easily help people in other countries to defend themselves against fascism.