Thierry Meyssan underlines the
extreme gravity, not of the US withdrawal from Syria, but of the collapse of
the world’s current landmarks. According to him, we are entering a short
transition period, during which the current masters of the game, the “financial
capitalists” – and those he refers to here have nothing to do with either
original capitalism or the original bank – will be rejected in favour of the
rules of law laid down by Russia in 1899.
It’s a time that only happens once or
twice a century. A new world order is emerging. All previous references
disappear. Those who were doomed to grieve triumph, while those who ruled are
thrown into hell. The official statements and interpretations made by
journalists clearly no longer correspond to the events that follow one another.
Commentators must change their discourse as quickly as possible, overturn it in
its entirety or be caught up in the whirlwind of history.
In February 1943, the Soviet
victory over the Nazi Reich marked the turnaround of the Second World War. The
next steps were inevitable. It was not until the Anglo-American landing in
Normandy (June 1944), the Yalta conference (February 1945), the suicide of
Chancellor Hitler (February 1945) and finally the surrender of the Reich (8 May
1945) that this new world emerged. In one year (June 44-May 45), the Great
Reich had been replaced by the Soviet-US duopoly. The United Kingdom and
France, which were still the world’s two leading powers twelve years earlier,
were to witness the decolonization of their empires.
It is a
moment like this that we are experiencing today.
Each historical period has its own economic
system and builds a political super-structure to protect it. At the end of the
Cold War and the break-up of the USSR, President Bush Sr. demobilized one
million US soldiers and entrusted the search for prosperity to the bosses of
his multinationals. They formed an alliance with Deng Xiaoping, relocated US
jobs to China, which became the world’s workshop. Far from offering prosperity
to US citizens, they monopolized their profits, gradually causing the slow
disappearance of the Western middle classes. In 2001, they financed the
September 11 attacks to impose on the Pentagon the Rumsfeld/Cebrowski strategy
of destroying state structures. President Bush Jr. then transformed the
“Broader Middle East” into a theatre of “endless war”.
The
liberation in one week of a quarter of Syrian territory is not only the victory
of President Bashar al-Assad, “the man who had to leave eight years ago”, it
marks the failure of the military strategy aimed at establishing the supremacy
of financial capitalism. What seemed unimaginable has happened. The world
order has changed. Further events are inevitable.
President
Vladimir Putin’s very grand reception in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates testifies to the spectacular turnaround of the Gulf powers, which are
now shifting to the Russian side.
The
equally spectacular redistribution of cards in Lebanon sanctions the same
political failure of financial capitalism. In a dollarized country where there
have been no dollars left for a month, where banks are closing their counters
and bank withdrawals are limited, anti-corruption demonstrations will not stop
the overthrow of the old order.
The
convulsions of the old order are spreading. Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno
attributes the popular revolt against the measures imposed by financial
capitalism to his predecessor, Rafael Correa, who lives in exile in Belgium,
and to a symbol of resistance to this form of human exploitation, Venezuelan
President Nicolás Maduro, although they have no influence in his country.
The
United Kingdom has already withdrawn its special forces from Syria and is
attempting to leave the supranational state of Brussels (European Union). After
thinking about preserving the Common Market (Theresa May’s project), it decided
to break with the whole of European construction (Boris Johnson’s project).
After the mistakes of Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron,
France suddenly lost all credibility and influence. Donald Trump’s United
States ceased to be the “indispensable nation”, the “policeman of the world” in
the service of financial capitalism, to once again become a great economic
power itself. They are withdrawing their nuclear arsenal from Turkey and are
preparing to close the CentCom in Qatar. Russia is recognized by all as the
“peacemaker” by assuring the triumph of the international law it had created by
convening the “International Peace Conference” in The Hague in 1899, the
principles of which have since been trampled underfoot by NATO members.
As
the Second World War ended the League of Nations to create the United Nations,
this new world is likely to give birth to a new international organization
based on the principles of the 1899 Conference of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II
and the French Nobel Peace Prize winner, Léon Bourgeois. This will require
first dissolving NATO, which will try to survive by enlarging to the Pacific,
and the European Union, a refuge state for financial capitalism.
We have to understand what is going on.
We are entering a period of transition. Lenin said in 1916 that imperialism was
the supreme stage of the form of capitalism that disappeared with the two World
Wars and the stock market crisis of 1929. Today’s world is that of financial
capitalism, which is devastating economies one by one for the sole benefit of a
few super-rich people. Its supreme stage implied the division of the world into
two parts: on the one hand, stable and globalised countries, and on the other
hand, regions of the world without states, reduced to being mere reserves of
raw materials. This model, contested by President Trump in the United
States, the yellow vests in Western Europe or Syria in the Levant, is dying
before our eyes.
French
intellectual, founder and chairman of Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace
Conference. His columns specializing in international relations feature in
daily newspapers and weekly magazines in Arabic, Spanish and Russian. His last
two books published in English : 9/11 the Big Lie and Pentagate.
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