Source: CounterPunch
by Elias Khoury
“The United States remains the big kid on the block. Everyone else is either too weak or cowardly to challenge them. For a while, statements like that were uncontroversial. America was the lone superpower — its power, beyond debate. Lately, however, a chorus of voices has assembled to challenge that notion. Commentators, typically of the political Left, are increasingly using the word ‘multipolarity’ to describe a supposedly emerging world order. … the events of this past week tell a different tale. On November 17th, Donald Trump’s ‘peace plan’ for Gaza came before the United Nations Security Council. With the prospect of the most naked imperialism of this century becoming international law, ‘anti-imperialists’ Russia and China did nothing. Such blatant American criminality going unchallenged like that contradicts the idea we are headed for a multipolar globe.” (11/25/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/25/the-multipolarity-myth/