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The BRICS summit, wrapping up recently in Kazan, was intended as a bold statement: the era of an America-centric world is finished.

This meeting wasn’t just about international cooperation but an attempt to stamp a mark on history — a declaration that the global balance has shifted. In this context, it also sought to proclaim an interim finish line in the current hybrid World War, a conflict ignited by Vladimir Putin in 2014 as a rebellion against the world order established at the end of the Cold War.

But what exactly happened to that old world order? How did it sway so much that it almost collapsed under its own weight?

How the West Lost the Plot

The victors of the Cold War (March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill’s Fulton speech — November 9, 1989, fall of the Berlin Wall) — misjudged their victory.At its core, the Cold War wasn’t just an ideological or political struggle between capitalism and communism. It was a spiritual and global conflict between the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) and the communistic belief system that sought to replace them, as the Russian political expert Belkovskyi argues.