Here's a pretty good explanation of how the Rules Based Order came to be and what it means.
It's a protection racket the US has run since 1946 (premiered in 1944 when Soviets rejected it) in which countries either accept US financial domination, or face the onslaught of US promoted condemnations, coups, sanctions, proxy-wars, and wars.
It includes the US dollar, Wall Street, US Military, NATO, CIA, NED, IMF, and World Bank.
It enabled US financial elites since 1946 to buy up global assets for basically nothing.
It does little for most US citizens. It turns their natural resources, brains, and labor power into building a war machine rather than a great society. The financial elite enriched by global plunder controls US government (a plutocracy) to their ends and then pays little tax to benefit anyone else.
It's visible today in US demanded sanctions now affecting most of the world grievously (including most Americans--I myself am furious about being cut off from Chinese suppliers--but hardly comparing to the pain of others), the US coup'd, stoked and provoked proxy war in Ukraine against Russia, ongoing war in Yemen, and other actions elsewhere.
As long as it persists, destructive Growth and the Anthropocene Extinction will be impossible to stop.
Absolutely. Yet we are in a situation where things might take a turn and usher in a new global order.
ReplyDeleteCould you please elaborate on what was tried in 1944 and was rejected by the Russians? What was the actual suggestion or proposal? Was it a Bretton Woods Draft?
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