In the midst of collapse: Why the narrative is unravelling faster than expected |
The longer one observes the trajectory of current events, this sustained accumulation of violence, dispossession and mass civilian suffering, the harder it becomes to dismiss what is unfolding as disorder or excess. What we are witnessing is not chaos without logic, but a process of exposure: a global order under pressure, revealing the contradictions it has long attempted to conceal.
We are living through a profoundly dark moment. Images of children buried beneath rubble in Gaza dominate global consciousness. Palestine remains, as it has for more than a century, an open wound at the centre of an international system built on selective morality and managed injustice. In Sudan, a country is being torn apart in full view of the world, as war merges with looting and political indifference. In Somalia, the threat of fragmentation once again looms large, sustained by external calculations that reduce human lives to variables. And yet, amid this bleak landscape, something else is happening. not quietly, but increasingly in public view: the dominant narrative that once framed these realities is beginning to break down.
Gaza today is not merely a besieged territory. It has become a stress test for the political and moral architecture of the international system itself. It is the place where the language of “international values” collapses under the weight of its own inconsistencies, where diplomatic formulas lose their credibility, and where human suffering can no longer be packaged as “collateral damage” or an unfortunate necessity. The violence inflicted on Gaza is not peripheral to global politics; it sits at its very centre, exposing how power rationalises itself.
What is unfolding........