In the art of war each belligerent chooses the terrain considered most advantageous for its battle for the offensive and tries to impose that terrain on its adversary, so that it is put on the defensive.  The same goes for politics, both at the national level and in the geopolitical struggles.
Nowadays, for the last 30 years or so, the powers forming the Triad of collective imperialism (the United States, Western Europe and Japan) have been defining two battlefields, which are still apposite:  ‘democracy’ and ‘the environment’.
This paper aims first to examine the concepts and substance in the definitions of each of these two themes selected by the Triad powers and to make a critical analysis of them from the viewpoint of the interests of the peoples, nations and states, at which they are targeted, the countries of the South, after those of the former East.