Stephen Sefton, May 26th 2022
Since at least 2005, anyone paying attention to international affairs will have seen clear signs of the relative global decline in the prestige, influence, power and control of the United States and allied governments.This has been especially clear in Latin America and Asia.
In Latin America, the US, despite relentless aggression of all kinds, has been unable to suppress resistance to the policy matrix which has sustained its regional predominance for over a century until quite recently. The Bolivarian Alternative bloc of countries in particular have successfully challenged US regional policy and its implementation by the local elites that have promoted and defended it.
In general, policies prioritizing corporate needs and benefits face being displaced by policies centred on the needs and aspirations of the human person. Elite racist marginalization of indigenous and afro-descendant peoples is steadily being supplanted by inclusive emancipation. Foreign policy alignment favoring the interests of North America and Europe is slowly ceding ground before a decisive commitment to global multipolarity led primarily by China and Russia.
Integration favoring the needs of the region's peoples challenges the model of regional collaboration of capital. Necolonial enrichment and speculative opportunism by local elites and their foreign patrons contrasts increasingly starkly with the determined creation of sovereign national wealth via productive investment. All of these processes promote grass roots social and economic democratization curtailing the power and influence of local oligarchies and elites supported by foreign powers.
Parallel diverse processes with similar effects have been in train too for many years across Asia and the Pacific and in Africa, for example in relation to China's Belt and Road initiative. Faced with these processes, North American and European ruling classes have had the choice of either accommodating to the emerging challenges or fighting them. They have chosen to fight and after attacking and destroying more vulnerable countries they have now chosen to fight China, Russia and Iran.
The articles included in this PDF are essentially notes towards a profile of the perverse dementia currently leading Western elites and their countries to the comprehensive strategic defeat they are bound to experience over the next two or three years. I hope they are helpful in offering some context for the current disturbing levels of international conflict and confrontation
Notes on the West's approaching strategic defeat (PDF 254Kb)