So instead of a New World Order, we are looking at a slightly different world order. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt are publicly abandoning their alliance with Atlantic civilisation and entering the Sino-Russian world known by the acronym BRICS. A world that is not yet as rich, but has more than three times the population, many more mineral resources and, newly, the power to resist colonial expeditions. And there will surely be others to follow. What the implications of this will be for that part of the world which has long been unable to do anything but print money, settle transactions, invent new financial products and run advertising campaigns needs no elaboration.
However, what is more interesting is what the principles of that Russian-Chinese-Latin American world will be. It seems that we can summarise them as follows:
First. Let each nation manage their own economy. Some want unfettered capitalism, others want everything to belong to the state. Some places welcome foreign investors, others hate them.
Let each nation manage their own economy. Some want unfettered capitalism, others want everything to belong to the state. Some places welcome foreign investors, others hate them.
Second. It is nobody’s business what political conditions are in another country. Some places will live freely, some places will be dictatorships, some places will be hard sharia, and some places may be ruled by cannibals.
Simply the opposite of the “liberal hegemony” promoted by the US.
On the one hand we can describe it as an ideal world of free countries, on the other hand as a world where any dictator can tyrannise the inhabitants of his own country without restraint. And it is by no means said that even in such a world the stronger will not begin to exercise authority over the weaker. Even if they might not act as brutally as the US currently does.
But that will not affect us in Europe any time soon.
