THE POTENTIALLY BLOODY BUT LONG-AWAITED END OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE

“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

To those interested in geopolitics to any depth it had become the most important question of the day:

‘Why are the elites of the western world pushing for conflict against their economic rivals to such an extent that war could break out with the loss of millions of lives?’

The answer was obvious although it invoked an incredulous reaction in any who plumbed the full depth of the resulting consequences.

The answer, in short, was that no empire will tolerate its dissolution and those within its power structure will create an almost infinite number of reasons why it should continue, and fight to the death to protect it, no matter what the consequences may be.

So it was that the western empire went down fighting and went down fighting all the way.

Ultimately every device open to the West was used up to and including nuclear weapons. Propaganda had been of some small benefit to the cause. Sanctions and other financial barriers also. But none of the tactics and methodologies included in the above could stop the continuing economic rise of their rivals.

It was primarily the rise of Chinese economic growth and the resultant increase in its influence on an ever-increasing number of nations and indeed on the global zeitgeist that proved the unstoppable factor bringing the western empire of control and domination crashing down.

Day by day, the indicators of China’s rise became obvious. This rise was not in any single area, though of course, the economic sphere was most obvious. In terms of investment help for other nations, long-term agreements signed for trade and a diplomatic service that at once kept the western elites at bay and furthered China’s reputation and reach worldwide all played their part.

Russia too played an important role in standing up to what had become the mad beast of the West which had become enraged at the knowledge of its imminent death. Vladimir Putin had long held the line against the western elites who had sought to diminish and defame him as one of their primary barriers to their continued status as a largely unregulated world police force.

When the end came it came by degrees. Economic indicators across the western world turned downward. In tandem, it became obvious that a growing number of nations were declining invitations to align themselves with those of the West. These increasingly refused to parrot the talking points of western elites that they had previously accepted without question.

A particular indicator of the decline of the West came with the increasing rejection of the BBC and CNN as news broadcasters of choice. Those who controlled the selection of television news channels began to drop them in increasing numbers.

The West was rapidly going out of favour in preference to equivalents in the East. This rapidly transformed the global economic system with the dollar being dropped as the most favoured currency. A plethora of transfers began to be negotiated in local currencies instead. The dropping of the dollar in respect of the purchase of oil was the final blow.

The elites of the West were reeling from the multiple blows arriving from every quarter. This was when they became most dangerous and seriously contemplated the use of tactical nuclear weapons in a last vain attempt to maintain their position. These elites simply could not contemplate losing their pole position of world hegemon with all its patrician duties and responsibilities (as they saw it). They could envisage no situation whereby they could tolerate no longer controlling the world.

The collapse of the power by western elites which their economic dominance had afforded them left them in a position of a free fall in the esteem and respect they demanded as their right and had previously believed was theirs in perpetuity. They arrived then at the point of ultimate desperation.

The consequential nuclear attacks were devastating for all sides. Though short in terms of time period these attacks resulted in the loss of over one million lives on both sides before a semblance of good sense intervened. The West had played its last card and was now in an even worse state than before now being world pariah in perpetuity having irresponsibly made the first strike.

The western empire was now well and truly over. Its elites were utterly humiliated and in disgrace. There was no more fight left in them and they agreed to every stipulation now made against them in humble fashion. The long era of oppressive and exploitative domination by the elites of the West within an empire built of fear and coercion was finally over.