By BRUNO BONCOMPAGNO*
The fight for better rights and some privileges is in vogue, widespread, no one can stand this world without a future anymore
O jornal Financial Times never tires of publishing articles by its brilliant columnists: enlightened beings, whose intellect is proven by their education at Cambridge, Oxford, London School of Economics or at Harvard or Princeton, the genius being a Rhode Scholar. The truth is one: putting all these together posh bastards, we don't have a whole brain.
Let's follow one of the Big Reads, which soon appears in the center of the screen when we open the site. Titled “Trump, Putin, Xi and the new age of empire“, Gideon Rachman begins with a striking statement: you have heard about neoliberalism and neoconservatism, now is the era of neoimperialism. Brilliant, Cambridge-educated, internationally awarded, only a British man could formulate such a lucid, succinct, and enlightening sentence. It is true, I have heard about both of these strands, but this third one does not greet me as something new.
It was England, after all, that dominated more than three-quarters of the world in the 19th century. Vladimir Lenin had written his classic Imperialism: the last stage of capitalism in 1905. Hannah Arendt wrote Origins of Totalitarianism detailing the attitude of Europeans in the third section of the book, at the beginning of the last century. What would be this neo-imperialism that Gideon Rachman wants to tell us about?
He explains: Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, and even though Vladimir Putin has made it clear that his intention is not territorial, Gideon Rachman thinks it is important to question him. China intends to annex Taiwan to its territory in the coming years, without invasions or wars; Xi Jinping only wants to reunite an ancient part of China. Donald Trump has other plans: to invade Canada, Mexico, Greenland, to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, and to reclaim the Panama Canal. The US president wants to build a Riviera in Gaza, turning the cemetery of children and the elderly into a tourist spot for Western sociopaths. Gideon Rachman presents these three leaders with the same preponderance, with the same tone.
Xi Jinping, leader of the People's Republic of China, respects the past of its great nation, whose greatest military feat was climbing the Great Wall of China. Having been an empire for 3000 years, the Chinese never invaded other nations. They traded with India, with pre-Columbus Latin America, with the Persians; they saw Rome destroyed, Napoleon lose wars, Alexander become small, all without trying to dominate other peoples. China, despite having complete control of its sea and world trade, never imposed its will in a brutal manner, colonizing, torturing and enslaving, unlike the Europeans.
Vladimir Putin, at a conference in Munich in 2007, warned European countries: NATO's eastward expansion, going into Ukraine, challenging Russian sovereignty, will be met in kind. The 2007 speech was not respected: the Americans had a smirk in their faces; the Germans mocked Vladimir Putin; the French smoked cigarette after cigarette when they remembered what happened to Napoleon. The US, in addition to continually humiliating Russia since the dismantling of the Soviet Union, wanted to set up military bases on the Russian border, with long-range missiles aimed at Moscow and St. Petersburg. NATO was born as a Nazi organization, whose leaders were from the SS, just like NASA.
Vladimir Putin has already publicly declared his political and strategic interest in this special military operation: to demilitarize Ukraine, denazify Ukraine and impose geopolitical neutrality, without allowing them to join NATO. Former President Valodymyr Zelensky, better known for his career as a comedian, however, follows the orders of the American and British elite who finance, in addition to weapons, the incessant corruption of his government. Jeffrey Sachs, a professor at Columbia University in New York, is going to public daily to expose the rampant corruption of this clown Zelensky's government.
Follow a excerpt from an interview granted to Economic Times by former President Volodymyr Zelensky: “President, Trump said that the United States of America alone gave $200 billion in both weapons and money to his government; what does Your Excellency have to say about that?” “We received, of the 175 billion (he has already stolen 25), only $75 billion, I don’t know what happened to the rest.”
Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly stated that either Donald Trump is lying about the amount sent by American philanthropists, or that his government has stolen $125 billion from Americans alone.
The Russians do not intend to enter a new world war; Vladimir Putin has maintained the same rhetoric and agenda since he came to power, replacing then-President Boris Yeltsin, on December 31, 1999: Russia wants to be a partner of the United States; the Cold War is over; the world works better with multipolarity; do not expand NATO’s military force eastward. It is possible to find subtitled speeches by Vladimir Putin from the early 2000s speaking exactly in these terms.
The Russian leader has been in power for 25 years, having shared the world stage with: George W. Bush (the imbecile); Barack Obama; Donald J. Trump; and Joe Biden. There have been four different governments, two Democrats and two Republicans, that have maintained the same stance towards Russian interests: total disregard, burning bridges, laughing at and successively humiliating the former Soviet superpower. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, American power became hegemonic, unipolar, conquering whatever it wanted, regardless of international political health.
The story told to us in Brazil is pure propaganda; but it doesn’t take much intelligence to perceive the contradictions present in the North American discourse: they, in the 20th century, supported several military coups in South America; they, who invaded Vietnam to defend the colonial (or neo-imperialist) interests of the French; they, who lied to the UN about “weapons of mass destruction” to justify the war in Iraq; they, who in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, pay terrorists and train them to overthrow democratically elected governments, establishing eternal chaos.
The Americans, since the Korean War, have humiliated non-European peoples; they do not care about our future, about our success as a people. At the same time that they steal our surpluses, they sell us Mickey Mouse and Hollywood cigarettes.
The West's greatest weapon is propaganda. It only pretends to pretend that the world we live in, based on the unipolar hegemony of the United States, is good for the rest of the world's population. I warn you, because I consider you friends: the way things are, they will not stay the way they are. Contradictions do not go hand in hand, looking for ways to obscure each other in the present: they are obvious. The malaise of this economic system, imposed on us by the Americans, by organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank, is becoming more prominent and is beginning to affect the wealthy classes. The fight for better rights and some privileges is in vogue, widespread; no one can stand this world without a future any longer.
When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin meet joined at the end of last year, a single speech by the Chinese leader was enough for us to understand what is happening in the macro sense of history, the paraphrase goes: “the magnitude of what is happening here is millennial”. And it is a fact: this change in status quo internationally broke the order established since the great navigations of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Europe, which imperially colonized the world, is now bankrupt. And the Americans who fed on this relationship have lost to a new superpower, rising from the ashes, after 100 years of humiliation and 75 of reconstruction. For this reason alone, Financial Times peddles the notion that Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are “neo-imperialists” – nonsense.
*Bruno Boncompagno is a graduate in economics at Facamp.
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