I recently sat down with Alexander McKay on the Liberation News Network to unpack a buzzword that is everywhere right now, yet rarely understood: Multipolarity.

In alternative media, we often hear an almost romanticized version of this geopolitical transition: the US imperial core collapses, new powers rise, and a peaceful, equal world (almost automatically or naturally) follows. But as I argue in this conversation, the reality is far more structural, and much less comfortable. (For now that is. If nothing changes…)

Empires mutate and transform, and more so in this global capitalist world of today.

We conversed about the real dynamics at play, discussing:

• Elite Competitive vs. Anti-Imperialist Multipolarity: Why the current global shift is more about ruling classes managing mutual dependencies than it is about genuine global transformation.

• The Bunker State: How the US-led block is adapting to its decline not by retreating, but by doubling down on hybrid warfare, economic strangulation, and coercion.

• The "Do Nothing and Win" Trap: How treating geopolitics as a spectator sport breeds passivity. We cannot rely on civilizational narratives or elite arbitration to change the world.

If we want to build a truly anti-imperialist multipolarity, it requires mass mobilization and popular education—something we are seeing glimpses of in Latin America, but which is desperately lacking in the imperial core. To defeat a system, we first have to understand the one we are actually living in.

You can watch our full hour-long conversation here and in the link below:

I would like to hear your thoughts on this! Are we too comfortable just watching the geopolitical chessboard?