Liberal globalism is dying. The West, the father of such hypocritical exploitation, has been surviving on life support. The recent European economic crises and political chaos have inflicted fatal wounds.
The Greek referendum on EU, Brexit, the migration crisis, terrorism, the rise of conservatives, are all direct or indirect results of such artificial identity practices. And that artificial identity is based on a hypocritical Western-secular-democratic ideology of exploitation.
In the name of freedom and liberation, globalists are engaged in a perpetual war around the world.
People from the Middle East have been resisting it at the cost of their own blood from the very beginning of the globalist’s “democracy offensive.” Millions of ethnic Arab-Muslims and other minority ethno-religious groups have been killed and countless civilian infrastructures have been destroyed by these so-called champions of freedom.
More divisions in a society will bring more chaos into a region. A regional chaos will push regional leaders towards leaning on globalists for support
If you think this is an accident, you’re wrong: The globalists are deliberately destroying the foundations of other civilisations in order to impose Western exploitation techniques.
Every civilisation has an organic way of consolidating and expressing its own, unique identity. This identity is usually, at least partly, born out of a history of collective struggle against adversity.
Therefore, in order to rule a particular civilisation as an outsider, you must first break its people’s unity in every possible way.
This idea is the basis of the “divide-and-rule” policy which works to break down local power structures by dividing local populations based on superficial identities, pitting one group against the other, artificially elevating one over the other, acquiring their allegiance and thus gaining a foothold in the region.
A new strategy but the same motives
Due to changing global dynamics, the globalists have devised new ways to exert their control. Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, the West began to pave its way to retreat from the centre stage with an intention to control the world stage from a secure position behind the curtains.
It is largely evident by now that the Arab Spring was engineered by the West and executed to create long-lasting political divisions between various ideological groups in the Middle East. Some of those groups were armed and trained by the West and its Middle Eastern allies to manufacture and export chaos throughout the Middle East and beyond -- IS being one of them.
Although, historically, divide-and-rule strategies were mostly used by empires to expand territory, it has also been used by retreating colonialists like a less violent version of the scorched-earth policy and with the possibility of maintaining indirect influence.
We saw it in Africa during its colonial and post-colonial period. We saw how Mongols retreated with that policy by installing Central Asian Muslims into China and brought the Chinese into central Asia.
The Roman Empire in Europe divided Macedonia into four republics that were heavily restricted from relations with one another and other Hellenic states.
We saw Britain, France, and Russia make the Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916 concerning their control of the Middle East. We saw the British and French back various Indian states in conflict with each other, both as a means of undermining the states’ influence and consolidating their own authority.
Later, the retreating British Empire divided the Indian sub-continent into India and Pakistan based on religion and turned them into regional enemies.
Since then, the retreating capitalist globalism has updated the divide-and-rule doctrine into a policy of chaos-and-rule which is being executed from a safe distance.
As the world is more connected and integrated now, a single powerful economic entity like the financial globalists can control and use regional and international clashes and disputes to their own advantage.
If the Western liberal economic globalism can create disruption, chaos, and divisions into far-away civilisations, the Anglo-Saxon hegemony led by those liberal globalists will be the sole beneficiary in every aspect for its long practice of imperialism.
More divisions in a society will bring more chaos into a region. A regional chaos will push regional leaders towards leaning on globalists for support, thus playing into the globalists’ hands.
Heads of states in the West do not have to answer in the same way to their own citizens for the havoc they wreak in other parts of the world through their proxy wars, as they would if it happened on their own lands.
In fact, they will claim to their citizens that they are working hard to keep them safe from foreign evils and simultaneously protecting the world from total destruction.
And thus, the Anglo-Saxon hegemony remains as the master of the puppets while its agents appear successful by creating an illusion of fake pride for Anglo-Saxon people.
Hybrid politics
We have seen the capitalist-globalist complex be temporarily hindered by communism, nationalism and traditional conservatism. But none of them have worked out in the long run.
We must confront the globalists with a new approach of “hybrid politics.” As the world is ethnically, religiously, culturally, and ideologically divided, those divisions are being exploited by the globalists in the name of global unity, or a global identity.
Such a superficial and artificial unified identity works as the eraser of ethnic, religious, cultural, economic and political identities of a self-determining group so that the globalists can bind the world to follow their orders.
At the present time, when there is an apparent conflict of interest within the globalist system as shown by the US election, and while they are also engaged in perpetual chaos worldwide, the pragmatic leaders of the opposing forces of globalism should seize the opportunity.
All ethno-religious forces who believe in nationalism and conservative economic policy should be the allies of the globalist opposition.
Ethnicity, religion, nationalism, and conservative economy are four different forces which ideologically confront identity erasing liberal-capitalist-globalism.
We must unify these positive forces of our society to confront the monster. We must remember that ethnicity, religion, nationalism or conservative economic policy alone, as in, independent of each other, do not possess the necessary power to defeat the mighty globalism. Rather, only a confluence of all four into a united approach can contain it. Iran is a good example of that.
Rajeev Ahmed is a geo-political analyst and strategic thinker.
