WESTERN ELITES ARE VAINLY ATTEMPTING TO TURN BACK A MASSIVE GEOPOLITICAL TSUNAMI

The legend goes that King Canute believed he was so strong and all-powerful that he could turn back the tide at his command. Anyone who knows this story knows also how this ends. 

And from Shakespeare:

Brutus:

There is a tide in the affairs of men.

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a full sea are we now afloat,

And we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.

In this epoch of world history we can see a great power attempting to turn back the tide of history. That great power is the USA, or better said the men and women who control the levers of power regarding U.S. foreign policy. Currently they are using every means possible to turn back the tide of global change in the geopolitical sphere.

It is not quite right however, to talk only of the geopolitical sphere. The change that is occurring now is much more profound. It involved the very basics of how people live their lives on our planet, the essential culture of everyday mores and traditional practices… or the lack of them, in some specific quarters.

The woke movement in the USA is but the latest example of the continuing decay of long-held principles that have traditionally underpinned daily existence, smoothing the gears of human interaction and constantly laying a predictable and relatively stable platform. Since the advent of the Sixties we have seen a constant decline in principles of behaviour in the USA and their replacement with an increasingly ‘anything goes’ culture. Predictability and security along with social stability and therefore connectivity have suffered as a result. Ever greater freedom of behaviour has eroded the backdrop of self-discipline and respect for others by blurring the social edges that maintained mutual respect, easy assimilation of character and held potential confusion and unpredictability regarding human interaction at bay.

Those who are presiding over an increasingly anarchic and lawless West seem oblivious to the rot that is infecting their citizens. All their focus appears concentrated on the war they are waging to hold back the hugely significant change that they see rising before them. This tsunami of geopolitical change from nations they have previously dominated has been rising for many years and the western powers appear determined to do all in their power to stymie its progress. Despite there being every indication that this is a change whose time has come we see no effort to assimilate its effects or to adapt or embrace it in any way by the West. It seems rabidly determined to defeat this rising power or to die in the attempt potentially taking us all with it.

It didn’t have to be this way of course. However, the rigid belief in western superiority and exceptionalism made the present situation close to inevitable. Dinosaur minds, unable to adapt to the new situation unfolding before them could respond only by aggressively going on the attack.  New wars were “justified” using reasons other than the true one, the West’s failing global power and influence. Hubris and the hatred felt viscerally for all that threatened their power drove western political and media elites into a frenzy. During this frenzy traditional norms of ethical behaviour and ethical conduct were abandoned. Torture became justifiable using semantic sophistry. Polemic and rhetoric replaced dialogue and debate, complex facts were reduced to simplistic soundbytes while every possible outlet for communication was prostituted to deliver propaganda. A war mode was assumed within which the political and media spheres quickly mirrored the social chaos of societies increasingly ugly and dysfunctional when compared with those within the rising nations.

The privileged West was reaping its inevitable harvest resulting from a decreasing need to be community-based. The individual and his or her needs and desires were paramount. There appeared no need to work together and indeed the buzzword was competition along with the urgent command to have it all and have it like YOU like it. In Britain Margaret Thatcher infamously said “There is no such thing as society.” Behaving correctly out of respect for others went out of fashion as affluence brought freedom to do whatever you liked and to hell with what anyone else thought about it. The breakdown of the previous concept of society and ‘working together’ to improve things for all became a virtual anachronism that became epitomised via the advent of the internet. The collective West atomised just as its political and media elites united to stand as a unified front against those that threatened to reduce their economic and therefore political and military power.

The elites spoken of above were dedicated to waging war of all kinds against their ‘enemies’, meaning China and Russia along with a list of others who resisted western command and control, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela. They saw that it was these separately and in combination who presented a growing threat to them. Through NATO and other means the USA gathered its armies. The UK, Germany, France, (and others within the EU) plus Australia, NewZealand and Japan would train their economic, political and media guns on their enemies in the hope of destroying their means to grow and succeed. Little did they realise that in so doing they would instead strengthen them, encourage them to unite and increasingly waken to the threat coming from the West.

The hubris-pervaded western elites, so sure of their superiority and exceptional abilities appear to have assumed the nations they had exploited, threatened and repeatedly punished and held down for years would quickly fall into line and obey their command to do s as they had done so many times before. But times, unfortunately for those western elites had changed. A particular, independent and sovereign power had risen to a level sufficient to be largely beyond western threat, command and ability to punish. That power of course was and is China. Subsequently nations began to graduate toward this new power on the block, this rising force in the world. Nations who had previously been squashed under the western thumb saw their chance to once again be sovereign, independent nations and one by one sought to align with the new rising tide in the east.

In recent weeks we have seen the economically-aligned BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa take on six new members, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Argentina, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates. Around 34 additional nations have also expressed the wish to join. This trend emphasises just how much times have changed Three out of the six joining have in the past been seen as allies of the USA and other western powers. The shock of this eventuality has been suppressed in western media but there can be no doubt that it is felt in the upper elite echelons of western nations. 

The ultimate irony is of course that it has been the very war against the rising powers that has, at least in part and arguably to a significant degree, that has driven the nations above together. By fighting tooth and nail to maintain its power over others the West has paradoxically lost power to them by uniting them in coalition. 

King Canute found to his undoubted chagrin that he was NOT as all-powerful as he had assumed. Whether he drowned as a result of his false pride and mistaken  belief in the unlimited nature of his power, is not known. Whether the USA and its proxies will now descend without let or hindrance to a state of complete societal dysfunction, just as its political and media elites realise they have become completely impotent through quarantining by the rest of the world, is equally unknown. What is rapidly becoming obvious however, is that the rising tide against the West will be overwhelming and sure to represent the greatest geopolitical tsunami in the history of humankind.