The situation we are now in could hardly be either more dangerous or momentous. Events currently taking place lead in two mutually exclusive directions and the stakes could not possibly be higher.
In a desperate effort to avoid the imminent loss of their long held power over our world western political elites have decided on the worst of two possible options.
The option decided upon by the leaders of the West was to fight, without limit, any further diminishing of their power with every weapon available to them. These weapons included not only their military power but also the power they could wield through the spheres of global politics, finance, economics, intelligence networks and media. No quarter was to be given in their war being fought to preserve their remaining power and through that power their ability to manipulate events, agendas, narratives and most important of all, leaders and populations of nations far from their borders.
The option rejected by western political elites was to accept the reality of their becoming part of a world where power was broadly shared and where there was therefore a balance of power that would gradually mean no one nation or group of nations could dominate all others.
The historical record of western powers led them to believe that they were the inheritors, generation to generation, of a title providing them with an almost God-given responsibility to be world warders, an entitled class whose duty it was to maintain order. Over the generations which oversaw the various manifestations of this entitled view, through slavery, through colonisation, missionary work (in the colonies) and in recent years through the Cold War, intelligence agency activity and ultimately through regime change, the attitude of superiority and of being exceptional with (an obvious to them) ‘manifest destiny’ to mould the world in their image.
The belief in their superior and exceptional status has quite clearly become a completely fixed notion in the minds of the majority of western political elites and it is this belief which has resulted in deciding upon option one rather than option two above. This decision, in most likely taken majorly due to an emotional, knee jerk response rather than through rational thought to any degree is now having its effect, an effect that has the potential to bring about the greatest global catastrophe to date.
The Last World War - The End Game War.
The interminable pushing forward of an unquestionable belief in western superiority and exceptional status where all else is deemed inferior requiring elimination and replacement is bringing us all inexorably nearer to a final world war, the end game war. This war will decide once and for all the shape of our common humanity on the planet for all generations to come. This is why it is imbued with such determined emotional responses on both sides. If the western political elites win this war they will not only maintain their present power, they will expand it to the point where it can never be challenged again.
If however, those nations which have been rising economically in recent decades and who do not wish to be dominated by western nations any longer win out we will most certainly see, with the diminishing of western power, a balance of power globally emerging, commonly called the multipolar world. Currently we see this conflict being waged across the field of conflict using the weapons western elites chose to fight it with but with an primarily emphasis on the political and economic. Only in Ukraine does Russia fight using its military in response to the West’s use of the Ukrainian military to wage its war having been left with no other viable option but to do this having lost its near decade attempt to resolve things peacefully.
Thus we have two paths forward, paths that only the global elites will ultimately determine. One leads to a prison planet of surveillance where the western political elites have overcome all major opposition and work ceaselessly to monitor all potential sources of individual and group resistance that follows. Surveillance, judgement, containment and punishment would be the primary ways to deliver “freedom”, “democracy” and “human rights” where these terms would become meaningless and in fact obvious by their absence. The other path, if the rising powers win out would see a world broadly run based on cooperation rather than containment, trade agreements rather than the use of military aggression, power sharing and tolerance of diverse governmental systems rather than power hoarding and intolerance for non-western modes of governance.
Those of us who look on in hope or trepidation look on, virtually powerless in the face of the momentous events now occurring which will decide which of these paths the world now takes.
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