Bear Empire
Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero
Although Russia does not agree that its nation is classified as a bear for the reason of strength and aggressiveness that distinguishes the ursids, North America is also a territory of this type of mammal. The former United States ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Davidow developed a textual work where his nation was signified as a bear and Mexico as a porcupine. That is to say, while the Russians do not like being considered bears, the Americans recognize themselves as such.
How can the United States and Russia be the same? Probably in imperialist expansionism. In the use of force to unilaterally impose their criteria with their neighbors. Davidow considers that Mexico is wrong in the way it looks at the United States, Mexican nationalism is reactionary, hence the figure of the porcupine, but can a bear really be friends with a porcupine?
The perspective of neutrality that Mexico has tried to maintain in the face of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has not pleased anyone. The grizzly bear has demanded, as always, that others come forward in the conflict to weaken his enemies even if the situation constitutes suicide.
The United States does not want to lose its hegemony or world control, but its decline faces the most critical point in the Russian-Ukrainian situation. The post-covid world represents a perspective where economic and political liberalism cannot advance any further, Samuel Huntington returns to tell America that it is necessary to return to its origin since he has lost the project of modernity and reason. Humanity is not satisfied with a Western identity that represents the United States, metastases everywhere, sclerosis disguised as consumerism and equivocal freedoms. American expansionism is also responsible for democratic decline.
The consecration of the Catholic Church to Russia signifies a point of agreement in global conservative tendencies. Non-Western societies have chosen to embrace certain aspects of modernity and reject others, especially those that entail high economic costs and social disorder. Although several countries have joined the economic sanctions that the United States and the global financial organizations under its control have imposed on Russia; the representative core states of non-Western peoples agree with Vladimir Putin in an anti-American obsession the likes of which had not been seen before, not even in the era of the Cold War or the Middle East invasions.
England's departure from the European Union shows the true face of Anglo-Saxon culture: pragmatism. Liberalism cannot be a civilizing culture if it does not fulfill an evangelizing task, it has been presented everywhere as a methodology of looting and abuse. The North American empire has come to an end because it is putting the human race on the verge of extinction, as well as all life on the planet. If the terrestrial cataclysm presented itself, the North Americans - like the Anglo-Saxons - would go out to live on Mars or the Moon.
Should the porcupine trust the bear? No. Is Ukraine the porcupine of Russia? We don't know, but it should be porcupine against the United States. What will happen to so many porcupine?
In the case of volatile geopolitical alliances, other bears engage in behaviors that redefine their allegiances.