The Fall of the West as a Geopolitical Entity
"We are talking about not just a geopolitical crisis but the final and visible collapse of the hegemony of the west. If they lose the conflict with Iran—if Iran survives and keeps its nuclear facilities intact and the government in Iran remains in position and makes no substantive concessions and Israel is badly battered as a result of this—and of course if the Russians move on and advance and achieve their objectives in Ukraine, then that is the end. It is the moment when it will no longer be possible to deny that the sun has set on Western Hegemony. We are no longer talking then about the end of the unipolar moment. We are talking about the fall of the west as a geopolitical entity." — The Duran
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In this stark assessment, The Duran hosts analyze what they see as a potential historic inflection point in global geopolitics. They argue that simultaneous defeats in Ukraine and the Middle East could mark not just policy failures, but the end of Western dominance that has shaped international relations since World War II. The hosts distinguish between the "end of the unipolar moment"—a gradual decline in American hegemony—and something far more dramatic: the complete collapse of the West as a unified geopolitical force. This perspective suggests that current conflicts represent existential tests of Western power, where failure could fundamentally reshape the global order and signal the definitive end of centuries of Western geopolitical supremacy.
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