NATIONS EXPLOITED BY THE WEST FOR YEARS ARE NOW ESCAPING ITS GRASP

The weight of history lies heavy on all western allies in these extraordinary days we experience now. Their exploits far from their shores over the past century and more have come back to haunt them. These are burdens that come with any control of an empire. The current fall from grace and power of influence across the global south by the West has its origins long ago in the eras of genocide, slavery, plunder, colonialism and exploitation. Reputations built upon these activities do not harm the perpetrators while they maintain a sufficient degree of power over their victims past and present. When the level of power over them is overwhelming of course they tend to be almost totally silent. However, once the western grip slackens and once powers rise that they can align with for protection (such as China and Russia) this changes everything.

The entire world is witnessing the change described above at this, arguably, most crucial time in geopolitical world history. We are at a watershed moment where power and influence are shifting at an unprecedented rate and pace from west to east. The nations of Eurasia and the Global South are realigning themselves at this moment in history where they at long last have the ability to do so. This is seen through diverse changes in what have previously been accepted norms of geopolitical behaviour. The most shocking and unexpected of these has been the reversal of policy by Saudi Arabia, a nation that has in the past been one of the strongest adherents of what became for many the ‘ally with the USA’ norm. This is no longer the rule, in fact it is becoming an extremely rare exception to the rule that has prevailed for so long now.

The USA and its closest ally, the UK have attempted to run the world since the end of WWII. If this is too strong a statement perhaps you will agree to the lesser claim that they were attempting to be the primary controlling influence over the world. During the earliest period of  the post-war years they conceived this to be a necessary consequence of having prevailed against the Nazis. Russia of course was crucial in the defeat of the Nazis but this fact was quickly removed from discussion as the Cold War set in. The mythology that prevailed was that the valiant U.S. and UK had won the war due to the fortitude of their elites in standing up to and defeating Hitler. With Europe devastated, with the UK hugely indebted and much of the world reduced to near poverty, who else was going to dominate (and profit) but the USA?

The mythologies that have bolstered North American pride down the years, the pioneering spirit, the self-reliance, pride in achievement, entrepreneurial skill and media professionalism all contributed to giving its population the certainty that it was up to them to “solve” the problems of the world and make each nation into a shining example of how perfect they, their business practices and products, their religious beliefs and their systems of governance were. It felt like the natural order of things with God in his Heaven smiling down on them and urging them on to achieve the ‘manifest destiny’ he had bequeathed them and had charged them with fulfilling. This now almost innate desire to engage with the world and mould each nation into a perfect image of their own nation stemmed from ‘good intentions’.

It was not the intent of the average North American to harm other nations. But at the same time there was a certain virtuous circle involved whereby their acts of assistance generated enormous income for home industries. The high employment and subsequent higher living standards experienced in the Fifties are now seen as the golden age of the North American lifestyle, a time of innocence to a degree when the USA was prospering as the clear winner of WWII. No thought appears to have been given to the inevitable growth of other nations or that they may now always be beholden to the USA and that they would begin to be self-sufficient in many, if not all, the goods that U.S. businesses now sold them. These were the good times and it was felt they were here to stay.

Nations of the historically poor global south began watching the actions of the USA carefully as the Korean War played out, then the Vietnam War. The mythology of the ever-successful and powerful USA began to lose some of its effect. In Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, becoming prime minister in 1954 proceeded to nationalise the Suez Canal. This move, which directly affected western profits, signalled a move away from the notion that the West was all-powerful. The subsequent humiliation of British forces sent to reverse Nasser’s nationalisation emphasised that a sea change had occurred. Of course the success of the West’s long war against the Soviet Union brought Egypt back into line eventually… until now.

‘Egypt has participated in expanded talks within the bloc referred to as "friends of BRICS," which also comprises Argentina, Bangladesh, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Comoros, Cuba, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.’

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/egypt-applied-to-join-brics-russian-ambassador-says/2922050

The Fifties, the heyday of U.S. economic and social success seems a very distant memory (or indeed fabled legend) to most North Americans these days. Riven by a multitude of problems ranging from mass unemployment, collapsing industries, decaying infrastructure, drug deaths, tent cities, regime change war weariness, and political deadlock/corruption, most Americans see their nation moving in totally the wrong direction. With social standards decaying in front of conservative eyes due to the unaccountable rise of wokeism, cancel culture and an apparent ‘anything goes’ attitude that appears rife among the liberal elites of  the nation and a new embracing of foreign wars among them is it any surprise that the leaders of the global south look on askance?

So who do the leaders of Asia, Africa and Eurasia look to in response to what they see happening in the United States? Naturally they look to the nations that reflect similar traditional values as they do. These nations have not had the experience or privilege of almost unlimited wealth and seemingly unending success as has been experienced by the USA in the past and at times (though less obviously) the United Kingdom. It has been conservative, traditional values, hard won over generations and the disciples that derive from those traditions that have kept them from the poverty that awaits them otherwise. Not for them the ‘anything goes’, ‘do as you like’ culture that they see infesting most of the western world. To take on such values would mean disaster for these nations and they know that without a shadow of a doubt.

In this day and age technology and software are supposed to solve everything and the western world has graduated away from industries that made things into “industries” that offered a service. One of these “industries” that arguably produces nothing (but occasional bouts of abject misery) is the financial industry of stock market investments. Money making money, or at least this is the hope. The values underlying the ‘making a fast buck’ along with the cutthroat era of casino capitalism has created a great many victims over the years and in North America in particular. This is another aspect of the western lifestyle and general systems overarching everything that traditionally poorer nations could well do without. When they turn to China these days they know that such investments are a far safer bet.

The regime change wars of choice that the collective west has indulged in over the last near two decades have been the final factor on top of all else for the nations now migrating their allegiances east. The apparently unceasing desire of western political elites shared by their media friends, to interrupt and fragment the building of relationships that don’t suit them is no longer being tolerated as before. More than this there is now a clear disgust regarding the fact that the political elites of the West so harmed the world while preening themselves on their “goodness” and the “righteous” nature of these wars. One nation after another was rendered devastated, unstable and a potential threat to order in nations far from western shores but in close proximity to those in the Middle East and closely connected nations and entire continents.

Now we see the African continent realigning, one nation after another, with the BRICS group while strengthening economic ties with both China and Russia. In a number of African nations we see portraits of Vladimir Putin held high in protests along with Russian flags being proudly and hopefully raised. We see colonialist power such as France heavily criticised and encouraged to leave and quit their interfering policies where Africa is concerned. The trend is decisively to steer quickly and resolutely away from the influence and power over them of the western cabal of nations and to align with confidence and resolute determination with their own regional superpower, China. The trend in Africa and in Middle Eastern countries as well as those of Eurasia and Asia appears unstoppable at this point. 

The acts down the previous century and long before that made the elites of western nations regarded as invaders, exploiters and illegal, immoral, sources of massive interference were always known. Until recently the opinions and freedom of movement of those who knew of these iniquities created a silent resentment and reluctant obedience to those western “masters”. Now however, the times have changed. Those nations of the West that could threaten with impunity, cause damage and blackmail, twist arms and deliver death and destruction at will if they so desired, are now in a state of inner decay and increasing outward impotence. Now is the time for the nations made victims by these western elite criminals to wrest their long-desired and longed for freedom, connect with those of similar outlook and experience and escape from their western tormentors forever.