The Ukraine crisis has given a new lease of life to the West and has helped in uniting the divided EU and NATO, and both the US and EU are taking punitive steps to pressurize Russia to step back. The US-NATO has yet to prove whether it can stand up to the challenge and turn the tide.

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By addressing some of the Russian concerns about NATO, the US could have prevented the forthcoming global economic and peace crises. It perhaps still can, given American media stops beating the war drums and evades painting a racist picture of the conflict.

The U.S. has extended its serious concerns over the grime picture of democracy not only in China which is a supporter of an authoritarian regime while hoodwinking the Western liberal democracy under the new phrase, Controlled Western Liberal Democracy.

The USA and Russia are trying to win over as many countries of the third world to their side to swing the diplomatic balance on their side. China and Russia stand on the higher moral ground to win the support of the countries of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

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Moscow is aware that Beijing is a rising power destined to collide with the US and shape the global order. From their point of view, it is only logical to side with neighboring China rather than an extra-regional power like the US.

It is interesting to note that both India, a Non-Aligned country taunted by Dulles for “sitting on the fence”, and Pakistan, “the most allied ally of the United States”, continued to get American military and economic assistance throughout the Cold War period.

This is the high time for the nation to stand and compel political stakeholders to give a unanimous message to the west and Europe that: Pakistan is an absolutely independent sovereign state; no one can dictate its foreign policy.

Encompassing 140 countries, the aftermath of the conflict will not only put a dent in the economic prowess of China but a surfeit of other countries. For China, the expansive flat Russian land serves as a viable route into the prosperous European markets.

In wake of the gruesome beheading of Safoora Bibi, Humaira Zia Mufti, highlights in a hard-hitting piece how the absence of constructive debate on blasphemy laws has increased incidents of public vigilantism in Pakistan. Such events undermine the country’s international campaign to end Islamophobia.

The Russo-Ukraine world has shaken up the globe in more ways than one and it will never be the same again. A new world order will emerge where the East and the West will have defined lines separating one world from the other, writes Gen Tariq Khan.