Western alliance

Different stages in the history of the West.

The Western alliance more commonly the West for short, is a globalist term which traditionally referred to longstanding trade, diplomatic, and military alliances within a group or bloc of nations stemming from an adoption or sharing of Western civilization culture and values.

But by 2022, in practical political terms "the West" had become nearly synonymous with the homosexual agenda and the Democrat Party in the United States, while opposed by American conservatives and pro-Trump leaders worldwide.^[1] The "pro-Western" government that took over Ukraine in 2014 quickly imposed annual gay pride parades in its capital city of Kyiv while imprisoning a leader of a critic of mandatory vaccination in late 2021.

Geographically, the West has commonly included the United States, the economically developed nations of Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Although Japan is in the Far East, it modeled itself after Europe in the late 19th century during the Meiji Restoration. After World War II, the United States gave Japan additional assistance in modernizing its business practices; see William Edwards Deming. Western culture includes concepts such as accountability, democracy, freedom, personal responsibility, and a free market economic system. Coincidentally, the West generally comprises the countries with the highest standards of living and more fair forms of governance in the world. Most, though not all, countries considered in "The West" are also Christian.

Militarily, the West consists of the United States, its allies and its friends.

the Anglo-American Alliance
NATO
America and Israel
America and South Korea
ANZUS Treaty

South Korea and India are strongly allied with the Western alliannce, both politically and economically.

Cold War Western alliance and beyond

See also: Collective West

In the Cold War (1947–91), the West opposed the Soviet Union and its satellites, as well as Communist China. The main military alliance in the West was - and still is - NATO, formed in 1949 which, these days, contains countries that were once part of what was considered the Eastern Bloc - Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and others which now are successful democracies.

During the cold War, when Russia created the Soviet Union and tried to cut itself off from the rest of the West, the term meant those European countries allied against the former Soviet Union also known as the Eastern bloc. The Western world was equated incorrectly with the Western Bloc to include European democratic countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and Japan (although the latter countries is geographically in the Far East).

Prof. John Mearsheimer explained:

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During the Cold War when we came up with this term, "the West", it made eminently good sense because we were dealing with the US-Soviet competition which took place mainly in Europe. The heart of the US-Soviet competition was in Central Europe and all of the countries on the Western side of the divide were closely allied with the United States. Of course those countries on the eastern side of the divide were closely allied with the Soviets. So in that context it made eminently good sense to talk about "the West" and we were tightly integrated. Furthermore, after the Cold War ends and you move into the unipolar moment, there's obviously no Soviet threat anymore, but the countries of Western Europe are thoroughly liberal. They share the same values as the United States does. And what happens is that "the West" that's left over from the Cold War decides to move NATO eastward to bring more countries in Europe into "the West", and continue to argue about international politics as if there were this group of countries that you could call "the West". And in fact, it made a lot of sense.

And furthermore, "the West" during the unipolar moment was interested in spreading liberal democracy all around the world. As you know, the United States during the unipolar moment adopted this foreign policy of liberal hegemony. We were interested all Frank Fukuyama in spreading democracy all across the planet because we thought that was all for the good. The Europeans bought into this enterprise. It was reflected most clearly in NATO expansion.

NATO expansion was initially all about spreading liberal democracy, economic interdependence and so forth and so on, Western institutions into Eastern Europe. So it was very easy during the unipolar moment as it was during the bipolar moment to talk about "the West". But that world has gone away and a lot of it has to do with the fact that for the first time in American history the most important area of the world for the United States is not Europe, it's East Asia because of the rise of China.

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References

↑ The West is Dead. Why the East will continue to dominate the rest of the 21st Century. Commentary by Dan Fournier, published Monday, August 18, 2025. fournier.substack.com

Cold War Western alliance and beyond

See also

Further reading

References

Conservapedia