As a year of tragic events
and fraught international relations comes to a close, it’s time to look back on
2025 and prepare for 2026. Our world is in the midst of radical upheaval, the
significance of which we generally can only fully grasp in retrospect. Antonio
Gramsci’s often quoted sentence seems more apt than ever: “The old world is
dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
Indeed, let us expose again
these monsters, one by one. First, it must be admitted
that these monstrous entities are mostly Western, with an enormous
propensity for lying.
