Biden evokes a ‘new world order’, but Washington probably won’t like what it means

By: Rachel Marsden

PARIS — There’s no disputing that the conflict between NATO and Russia in Ukraine is the beginning of the end of the world as we all perceive it. The notion certainly hasn’t escaped U.S. President Joe Biden. "We’re at an inflection point, I believe, in the world economy, not just the world economy, the world, that occurs every three or four generations," the president said to a business roundtable on March 22. “Now is the time when things are shifting and there’s going to be a new world order out there, and we’ve got to lead it. We’ve got to unite the rest of the free world in doing it.”

What “free world” is Biden referring to, exactly? The one that has imposed the experimental medical act of mandating anti-COVID jabs on citizens as a condition of employment, travel, and assembly? Are we talking about the same “free world” that has been banning access to information through its big tech lackeys when it isn’t considered adequately aligned with the conventionally accepted narrative of western officials?

Biden is clearly just adhering to an old, dated paradigm from the Cold War of the unfree communist ideology versus the free democratic west. Hardly any of that is relevant today for a couple of reasons. First, communism and capitalism as dominant ideologies have been overwhelmingly replaced by globalism and populism. In other words, you’re either in favor of a global system supported by western elites and the corporations that benefit from it, or else you still believe in the non-corporatist free and fair market and governance that’s locally accountable to citizens.

We in the west are no longer really free in the true sense of the word.

It started with the war on terrorism when fear of jihadists gave rise to a national security state and a surveillance panopticon. Then came the COVID-19 crisis, during which citizens cheered and begged for even more crackdowns on the most basic freedoms and witch hunts against opponents thereof, all in exchange for the illusion of protection against what some consider a relatively benign virus. Science was no longer even debatable, despite arguments representing the very basis of scientific methodology.

Now, the conflict in Ukraine follows the same blueprint. “Good scientists” and “bad scientists” or “bad unjabbed” and “good jabbed” have been replaced with “good Ukrainians” and “bad Russians”, with anyone deviating from the dictated bandwagon — enforced through relentless messaging — either censored or pressured to self-censor for fear of societal repercussions.

NATO and the U.S. State Department have shamelessly — and now disastrously — exploited the thoroughly corrupt, undemocratic, and poor country of Ukraine in order to entice it into doing its bidding against one of the only major world powers that refuses to fall in line with an agenda that favors primarily U.S. elites. They have created a self-fulfilling prophecy with the perennial flooding of the country with weapons and covert “assistance” to target Russian interests, while acting confused as to why doing so has been failing to promote a peaceful resolution.

In the meantime, the war with Russia that NATO has seemingly fantasized about for so long is causing the exact opposite result of what was intended by fracturing the world into two spheres — east and west — thereby massively reducing Washington’s control. And this time, the global fracture is not along clear ideological lines but rather economic ones. And therein lies the risk for those of us living in the west.

The West lost the moral high ground on freedom and democracy long ago with its own authoritarian tendencies and systemic corruption. With the military power of Moscow joined by economic power China, India, Iran, and likely a chunk of Latin America on one side already, that leaves us primarily with the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia, and Europe on the other. And already Europe is hurting from the recoil of anti-Russian economic sanctions thrown right back into its face. Supremacy of the western block against the east isn’t a given — in terms of either freedom or economic opportunity.

But there is, however, a silver lining for the individual. While elites will see their influence and interests curtailed worldwide, the average person will no longer be held hostage to globalization. Repatriation and growth of industry and opportunities should ultimately follow on both sides, with two different spheres from which the average person could choose rather than being forced into an increasingly tight global straitjacket of consolidation.

The ultimate losers in the new world order will be the exploitative one-world globalist elites. And it couldn’t happen to a better group of people.

COPYRIGHT 2022 RACHEL MARSDEN