Dear Editor,
Twenty-seven years ago, in 1989, when the USSR was imploding, some of its capitalist adversaries were gloating. Their economists and marketing strategists were already considering a new adventure that would mirror the one that lay croaking. Never mind the misery, destruction and death “world communism” had wrought upon the earth; these new utopians were already dreaming of a new ideology, a new “ism,” globalism: the belief that people, goods and information ought to be able to cross national borders unrestricted.
The spearheads of globalism were (and remain) officials at the United Nations, US and European oligarchs, their bankers and enablers, the World Bank in particular. From the very beginning, the model or prototype for this experiment toward a new world “without frontiers” was a European Union (EU) that would work in symbiosis with the United Nations (UN). Success with the EU would show the world and particularly those patriotic Americans (for whom the US Constitution is vital) how nation states could/would proceed towards globalisation.
But the advocates of globalism knew that people everywhere love their homeland; their language, their religion, their culture; and that there is no such thing as a nation without borders or frontiers. So in order to convince their citizens of the merits of globalisation, European technocrats and their allies enlisted a den of dragons to discredit their opponents, and scare the people; the most ferocious of all their monsters being the ultimate European bogeyman: Fascism.
The nation state, nationalism, patriotism, love of one’s country was characterised, and represented as various forms of fascism, chauvinism, Nazism or neo-Nazism, racism, xenophobia (and this list is not at all complete). As such, patriotism, love of one’s country was derided, combated and suppressed. All the while, the technocrats and their globalist enablers forged ahead stealthily without properly, lawfully, consulting their populations.
Indeed, instead of seeking proper mandates from their citizens in Europe, and from their various colonial enclaves throughout the world, European technocrats of globalisation pressed on, aided and abetted by Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), and by a much too compliant, if not muted media. Since the collapse of communism in 1989, and after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1990, the globalists have pushed ahead incrementally and stealthily in concert with their allies at the United Nations and elsewhere.
As for the Americans specifically, all US presidents after R. Reagan have been secret, stealthy advocates of globalisation; from 1989 with G. Bush, through B. Clinton, G.W. Bush and B. Obama. With President Obama, the triumph of the globalists is almost a “fait accompli,” a done deal. We’re almost there! The stealthy trek towards a so-called borderless world that would amount to “the suicide of America: the unmaking of America as founded” is almost completed. But there may still remain some glimmer of hope for those who have been trying to resist globalisation.
A while back, EU and UN technocrats, some of their allies, NGOs and oligarchs (Billionaire G. Soros most notable among others) ran afoul the politics of President Putin in Russia and elsewhere. Ever since then, there has been some heavy push back from the Russian Bear. Witness the strenuous relationship between Presidents Obama and Putin these last years. Witness also the drip, drip, drip, from Wikileaks (seemingly of Russian origin) wherein everyone with Internet access can follow the underhand involvement of the globalists, particularly (of G. Soros and his minions, among others) in their stealthy advocacy, their deceitful promotion of globalisation.
A referendum in June this year has led to the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, and at the G20 summit in China in September, when US officials tried to act as if they had carte blanche at the airport in Hangzhou, Chinese officials blocked them shouting forcefully: “This is our airport, this is our country!” President Obama was then denied the red carpet at the airport (AFP-Sep 3, 2016).
A strange twosome indeed! The President of what remains of the old Soviet Socialist Republics, Vladimir Putin, and the American super capitalist, Donald Trump, may now be the world’s very last hope, the champions of those who have been decrying globalisation to no avail all these years.
The super capitalist and the communist strongman may be the uncanny champions of those who have been arguing, repeating what experience has taught humanity since the dawn of History, namely that there is no Utopia here on earth; that good fences make good neighbours; that differences are fundamentally vital, and that disorder sets in, everywhere, with the perception of a loss of differences.
Indeed, communism and globalism are both ideologies that champion uniformity which they value, nurture and promote at the expense of diversity and differences that they obliterate. As the late Christopher Hitchens puts it: “... the search for Utopia is a futile and dangerous one [...] there is no escape from anxiety and struggle. (Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journey and Essays, 2004).
Gérard M. Hunt
