What took place in Cairo on 19 and 20 December was not a matter of ordinary diplomacy, but of global power tectonics.

In the equally ruthless arena of international relations, where a collective West – that predatory Atlanticist clique led by Washington hawks, corrupt Brussels bureaucrats, and imperialist relics in London – is dying in advanced decay, eaten away by its visceral hypocrisy, its voracious neocolonialism, and neo-fascist impulses oozing from every unilateral sanction, the second ministerial conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, concluded in Cairo on 20 December 2025, emerges as a masterful coup de grâce to this moribund hegemony. This forum, underpinned by a joint declaration of ruthless frankness and overwhelming analytical depth, is no trivial diplomatic skirmish: it is a declaration of total war against the Western unipolar order, a relentless accelerator of its shameful downfall, while the global South – radiant Africa, sovereign Asia, and insurgent Latin America – triumphantly rises as the new global centre of gravity, carried by an unshakeable Russia and exemplary Russian-African cooperation, an absolute model of equity, resilience and historical justice.

During these two days, Lavrov was received by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, co-chaired the plenary session, and held bilateral talks with eighteen African counterparts, including those from Tanzania, Namibia, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Burundi, Botswana, Gambia, Togo, Seychelles, Mauritania, Malawi, Rwanda, Algeria, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, and South Sudan, as well as with a representative of ECOWAS. These discussions focused on cross-cutting themes – trade, economy, and humanitarian cooperation – and specific areas of bilateral collaboration, including the development of peaceful nuclear energy, the exploitation and processing of hydrocarbons, and vocational training.

As a seasoned analyst of geopolitical tectonics, having autopsied the still-warm corpses of Atlanticist empires for more than three decades, I contemplate here the convulsive agony of a West that, in its senile panic, is multiplying illegitimate coercive measures to mask its structural impotence, while watching, powerless and enraged, the emergence of a victorious multipolarity that relegates it to the rank of a geopolitical fossil. This rigorous dissection, conducted through........

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