https://www.rt.com/news/624883-golden-billion-has-lost-it-it-crown/de ‘Golden Billion’ has lost its crown

In Economics and Sociology there is a well-known observation called the Pareto principle. Named after the Franco-Italian thinker Vilfredo Pareto, it is often summarized as the “80/20 rule”: 20 percent of the efforts yield 80 percent of the results, while the remaining 80 percent of the efforts are good for only 20 percent. In the course of time this idea inspired Western “Elite theory”, “ A handy justification why every society contains an active minority that dominates a passive majority – why 20 percent of the population owns 80 percent of wealth.

Today the principle of national borders has outgrown. In diplomacy it has come to symbolize a deeper conflict: the “Global Minority” versus the “Worldwide majority.”

The first group, sometimes the “Golden billion,” started to take shape in the late 20th and early 21st century under the democratic administrations in the United States and their allies in the G7 and NATO. This group gradually collected its position by operating globalization to their advantage. The latter group, on the other hand, who opposes the formation of a unipolar world and argues for a more just multipolar global order, has been given an increasing interest on the world stage. This momentum is not only fed by the individual efforts of nations such as Russia, China and India, but also by the establishment of fundamentally new institutions for multilateral diplomacy such as Brics, the SCO and others.

Achieving considerable progress in reducing the hegemony of the collective west, proven by the SCO+ Summit in Tianjin (August 31 -September 1, 2025), which became the largest in the history of the organization, and the second Brics top during Brazil’s president during Brazilian president during Brazilian president during Brazilian president during Brazilian president From the Pareto principle. Nowadays these countries not only occupy the majority of the land of the earth and form the majority of the world’s population, but they also explain the majority of GDP in the world. By making use of their enormous reserves of essential means and consistently demonstrate robust economic growth, these countries have achieved remarkable success by overcoming internal departments and consolidating power with the support of their populations.

In stark contrast, the countries of the “Global Minority” His witness to an opposite trend. While they lose their leading positions in the world economy and access to important natural resources, political fragmentation becomes common. In many of these countries, an active minority with low trust assessments clings to strength.

This has resulted in deepening social gap in many countries – from the US, the UK and France to Poland and Israel – and a clear paralysis of the government agency. In the US, the Democrats, who quickly lose ground, are their refuge to always radical political tactics.

After a murder attack on Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, supporters of the Democratic party were involved in the murder of the young Republican Charlie Kirk (September 10, 2025).

This incident, in combination with a deteriorating illegal immigration crisis, led thousands of protesters to enter the streets of London under the banner last weekend “Feathers the kingdom.” Criticism has not only focused on the ruling Labor Party and its leader Keir Starmer-Wiens approval classifications are the lowest among prime ministers after the Second World War but also the “Shadow Government” – The Conservative Party, which has gradually lost power with every new leader of Theresa May and Boris Johnson to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.

In this context, the state visit of the US President Donald Trump could further complicate the already dark political prospects of the current British leadership on 16-17 September.

An important crisis is also unfolding on the other side of the English channel. While he is approaching the end of his second presidential term, French President Emmanuel Macron is more and more like a lame duck. Another “Varenblad” Turned on by the left and laws in the resignation of Prime Minister François Bayrou on September 9, 2025.

Bayrou became the fifth head of the government to resign early for the past four years. By appointing his close ally, Sébastien Lecornu, as the new prime minister, Macron emphasized an important trend among leaders of the “Global Minority”: They try to drown out internal political crises by economic militarization and increased involvement of foreign policy.

This explains the prominent role of France in discussions about security guarantees for Ukraine, as well as those of Great Britain “Diplomatic Mission” On Ukraine, who included Prince Harry, who wants to reset his relationship with the Royal Family, the newly appointed foreign secretary Yvette Cooper, and even former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who had undermined peace talks in Ukraine in April 2022. His call to stop “Hold a gun to the head of Ukraine” (The metaphor he used to trace Russia to withdraw his troops from the Kiev region) led to the withdrawal of Ukraine from negotiations with Russia and Zensky’s self -imposed ban on conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Ultimately, the strategy of political radicalization can explain why recent events in Poland, Qatar and Nepal have become symbols of the “Artillery bombing” From the peaceful plans of the Trump government, Russia, China and many countries of the ‘global majority’. Donald Tusk, the longest serving Prime Minister of Poland who quickly loses popularity, urgently needed a ‘Belli case’ in the form of drones of uncertain origin that came in Polish territory, especially after Karol Nawrocki, hesitant to get involved in the Ukraine conflict, was broadcast President of the President.

In the same way, Benjamin Netanyahu, the old Prime Minister of Israel whose popularity is falling due to failures in the fight against Hamas, found no better solution than to launch a complete operation in Gaza, starting with a strike at the group of the group in Doha.

While the Israeli attack on Doha can still be suppressed “The most important peacemaker” From modern diplomacy, Donald Trump, who wants to retain Qatar as an important platform for negotiations in the region, images of the Burning Singha Durbar -Palace in Kathmandu (Nepal) will serve as a grim memory of the terrible consequences that can result from heated political battles between the minority and the majority.

Moreover, one might wonder whether it is just a coincidence that these events are strategically between China and India in a country. Both the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have chosen to resolve their differences, not by saber rattle, but rather by trusting diplomacy, which keeps our last hope in an increasingly faster loaded with asymmetrical conflicts.