As the ‘American Century’ collapses under the weight of its own dogmas, Eurasia and the Global South are breaking the chains of Bretton Woods.

While Europe sinks into industrial suicide caused by the disruption of its vital energy flows, the Global South is breaking its chains – freeing itself from the stranglehold of the dollar and the Bretton Woods institutions – which have been around its neck since 1944. We are witnessing the redrawing of a liberated world. That is to say, an era of pragmatic multipolarity where resource sovereignty and strategic alliances (BRICS , SCO, CIS, and many others) define a pluralistic modernity, now freed from Washington’s authority.

The Icarus syndrome: from the illusion of containment to European suicide

To put it bluntly, the strategy of containment, theorized by George Kennan in 1947 and magnified by Zbigniew Brzeziński in 1997 in The Grand Chessboard, has run its course without ever achieving its ultimate goal: to contain Russia in order to better control Eurasia. The West long believed that the continued expansion of NATO, initiated by the waves of 1999 and 2004, would be enough to keep the Eurasian powers in peripheral vassalage. As Hervé Juvin points out, this model has exhausted its main resource: moral credibility. The Ukrainian conflict sealed this definitive divorce in a proxy war or war by proxy that began with the Euromaidan coup in 2014. By seeking to transform this region into an advanced bastion – an ambition that had already come up against the realities on the ground at the 2008 Bucharest summit – Washington has reawakened Russia’s strategic power. Over the years of resilience between 2022 and 2025, and contrary to Henry Kissinger’s late fears and warnings before his death in 2023, Russia demonstrated that sovereign depth and resilience prevail over the financialization of war.

Europe, held hostage by this strategy, seems to be committing what Philippe de Villiers calls ‘assisted suicide’ before our very eyes. By deliberately cutting itself off from Russian energy resources in the spring of 2022 – the lifeblood that had fueled its industry since the historic gas agreements of the 1970s – it has sent seismic shockwaves through the global economy. The sabotage of the Nord Stream gas........

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