For me, this is the saddest reminder of the 9/11 terrorist attack. In addition to the hundreds of victims, the ruins of the two towers also buried the confidence and greatness of a superpower, writes political analyst Robert C. Castel in his opinion piece

"In addition to the hundreds of victims, the ruins of the two towers also buried the confidence and greatness of a superpower.

The most worthy answer would have been that within a year, two new towers will stand in place of the demolished ones.

They are taller, more curvaceous, more ostentatious.

A real world power would have acted this way.

What we got instead was a simulacrum of power, simulacrum towers. The beautiful souls would say that it is made of light rays instead of steel. But nice words don't fool anyone. Where symbols of American greatness once stood, now the dead eyes of two old lanterns stare up into nothingness.

And to complete the humiliation, a plot of land was provided for the so-called "ground zero" mosque in the immediate vicinity of the epicenter. The beautiful souls were able to dismiss this slap, but the target audience in the Middle East perfectly understood the symbolism of the matter. And laughed rudely at him.

What followed was the fallout from the endless war on terror, which undermined rather than strengthened the American world order and Western hegemony.

The world order change began here.

With the fact that two towers that should have been rebuilt immediately have not been rebuilt to this day. The Russian missiles hitting Kiev only made the fact of the world order change indisputable.

If the USA, and the collective West with it, still thinks that it will pick up the gauntlet thrown down in front of it and try to turn back the wheel of time, then it should return here and start all over again here.

Not with arms shipments, meaningless conferences and empty gestures, not with the means of destruction, but of construction.

Because what remains of a great power even after thousands of years? Not the weapons, but the buildings.

Not what he destroyed, but what he created."

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