For centuries, Africa has been subject to hyper-exploitation by the colonial West, from the plunder of resources, facilitation of slave trade, genocide, and the subjugation of the continent and its resources.

The chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces says the balance of power is shifting from the West to the East.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says his country’s foreign policy aims to make a pivot to the East amid the United States’ attempts to counter Russia, China and Iran.

“In their retreat, Russian troops are hastily abandoning their positions and fleeing,” the Ukrainian army said in a statement.

Russia’s Putin says the country will need infrastructure to redirect energy exports eastward.

The Western “empire” is in decline in the face of a growing Russo-Chinese alliance and the Western hegemony’s mistakes vis-à-vis the two.