GAZA GENOCIDE MARKS 'END OF HISTORY' - FOR EMPIRE, NOT FOR THE WORLD

For decades, throughout the Cold War and beyond, the dominant Western narrative painted itself as the bastion of freedom of expression, resistance to censorship, and other personal and civil liberties. In contrast, the “other side” was cast as a dystopia of state surveillance and authoritarian control. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the story went, would usher in a new era of global freedom, personal, civil, and economic, uniting humanity under liberal democracy. Political scientist Francis Fukuyama famously declared it “the end of history.”

But anyone who truly understood life on both sides of the Iron Curtain knew this was always a false dichotomy. And today, that illusion is more exposed than ever. Thirty-six years later, as the world witnesses the most livestreamed, photographed, and documented genocide in human history with no end in sight, it is the Western powers, not the long-defunct Cold War adversaries, that are viciously repressing their own populations for demanding an end to the slaughter.

Rather than delivering a Western-led utopia of economic and social liberalism, the post-Cold War order has revealed itself as a new iteration of empire, one whose legitimacy is now collapsing in real time. Fukuyama’s “end of history” has become the prelude to something else entirely: the decline of Western imperial dominance and the inevitable emergence of a new multipolar world. With every bomb dropped on Gaza, that future draws nearer. There is no turning back.