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Title: Buchanan: Is the New World Order Unraveling?
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Human Events
URL Source: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46851
Published: Oct 14, 2011
Author: Patrick J Buchanan
Post Date: 2011-10-14 11:24:18 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 7675
Comments: 21
With Greece on the precipice of default, and Portugal and Italy approaching the ledge, the European monetary union appears in peril. Should it collapse, the European Union itself could be in danger, for economic nationalism is rising in Europe. Which raises a larger question. Is the New World Order, the great 20th century project of Western transnational elites, unraveling? The NWO dates back as far as Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations, which a Republican Senate refused to enter. FDR, seeking to succeed where his mentor had failed, oversaw the creation of a United Nations, an International Monetary Fund and a World Bank. In 1951 came the European Coal and Steel Community, love child of Jean Monnet, which evolved into the European Economic Community, the European Community and the European Union. A European Central Bank and a new currency, the euro, followed. The hidden ultimate goal of economic union was political union -- a United States of Europe as model and core of the 21st century world government. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the EU expanded to the east. And the New World Order, formally proclaimed by George H.W. Bush in 1991, was out in the open and seemingly the wave of the future. Progress was swift. A North American Free Trade Agreement, bringing the United States, Mexico and Canada into a common market that George W. Bush predicted would encompass the hemisphere from Patagonia to Prudhoe Bay, was signed in 1993. A World Trade Organization was born in 1994. U.S. sovereignty was surrendered to a global body where America had the same single vote as Azerbaijan. The Kyoto Protocol, brought home by Vice President Al Gore, set up a regime to control the worldwide emission of greenhouse gases. An International Criminal Court, a permanent Nuremberg Tribunal to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity, was created. A doctrine of limited sovereignty had been asserted. Elites claimed a higher law than national sovereignty, "a responsibility to protect," enabled them to intervene in countries where human rights violations were egregious. Serbia, bombed by Bill Clinton for 78 days for fighting to hold its ancient province of Kosovo, was the first victim. Suddenly, however, the progression has stalled. Indeed, the New World Order seems to be unraveling. Emerging powers like China, India and Brazil are demanding they be exempt from restrictions that developed countries seek to impose. The follow-up summits to Kyoto -- Copenhagen in 2009, Cancun in 2010 -- ended in failure. The Doha round of world trade negotiations ended in failure. China refuses to let her currency float lest she lose the trade surpluses that have enabled her to amass $3 trillion in cash reserves. Protectionism is rising. Americans chaff at a new world economic order that has led to deindustrialization of their country. Congress is talking of defunding the U.N. as anti-Western and anti-Israel. Why is the New World Order suddenly going in reverse? A primary reason is the resurgence of nationalism. Nations are putting national interests ahead of any perceived global interests. A second reason is the decline of a West whose project this was. We no longer dictate to the world, and the world no longer marches to our tune. The deficits and indebtedness of Western nations preclude more of the big wealth transfers in foreign aid that once bought us influence. A third reason is demography. Not one European nation has a birth rate sufficient to replace its population. Europe's nations are aging, shrinking, dying. A depopulating Germany cannot carry forever the deficit-debtor nations of Club Med. The oldest nation, Japan, is on schedule to lose 25 million people by 2050, as is neighbor Russia. Militarily, America remains the most powerful nation. But Iraq and Afghanistan have bled the country and left us without the certain attainment of our goals. Old allies like Turkey go their separate ways. Ethno-nationalism also explains a disintegrating world order. Aspiring nations like Scotland, Catalonia, Padania, Flanders, Ingushetia, Dagestan, East Turkestan, Kurdistan and Baluchistan seek a place in the sun, free of the cloying embrace of the mother country. The desire of peoples for nations all their own, where their own language, faith and culture predominate and their own kind rule to the exclusion of all others, is everywhere winning out over multiculturalism and transnationalism. Through history there have been attempts to unite the world. The Roman Empire. Catholicism. Islam. The West that ruled much of mankind from Columbus to the mid-20th century. Communism, which conquered half of Europe and Asia but arose and fell in a single century. With the death of communism and the decline of the West -- in relative population and power -- Islam has become the largest religion, China the world's emerging superpower, and Asia the continent of the future. Could this still be the Second American Century?
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
That is not a long time as history goes. Western Europe was one of the most backward parts of the world even during the Roman empire - a land of poor, stupid people until about 600 years ago or so. If anything the world is returning to the right balance of power with China in the forefront. If not for the damage done to the Chinese psyche by the Mongol occupation, the Chinese would not have become xenophobic and grounded their world exploring fleet in 1421 and we would all be speaking some form of Chinese now.
Chyeah, those Romans and their aqueducts and Coliseums and iron works were real dolts.
When we say "Western Europeans" we mean post Roman empire lands in the west that developed after the Germanic invasions. You do know this, right?
WHO is "we"? Lol... Changing the game again? Ok, Commie cherry-picker. So it's your position that YOUR Chinese are the crowning glory of civilization? The same people who in the 1960s were still "driving" rick shaws and donkeys? The Chicoms have STOLEN Western Civs innovations, technology and inventions. They are thieves.
No, stupid, only that the "west" (which is Western Europe) has always been the "crowning glory of civilization" is false. The West has only been the "crowning glory of [world] civilization" for the last 300 years or so. Before that the "west" was a backwater of poor, stupid peoples. If China gets on top it is only returning to the way the world was not too long ago by human history standards. The Chicoms have STOLEN Western Civs innovations, technology and inventions. They are thieves. You sound like those Black nationalists that claim white people "stole" Egyptian civilization. Such a notion is nonsense. But if you want to plat that game, as for theft, the architecture found in D.C. and the Western capitals looks as if they ripped off Greece and Rome and Egypt.
So what exactly has changed????? They are still stupid and poor because they believe Socialism/Fascism/Communism is the shit and in the end will save them!!!!! LOL.......
Speaking of stupid, this has to be the stupidest thing I've read here today.
Then I guess you haven't made your daily diary entry yet.....
Why is it you idiots always combine S/F/C together as if they're the same thing? Is thought really that hard for you? BTW, could you tell me what country today has had it's citizens choose to go Fascist? Since you posted it you should have no problem telling me which one(s) have done it.
Why not they all seem to have the same thing in common.....
Ever seen any pictures of Andersonville Prison? - that was the Civil War, FYI. So was that due to C, S, or F?
So was that due to C, S, or F? "S"..... for stupidity....
You really don't know anything, do you?
#19. To: Skip Intro (#18)
I look at things in different terms/ways than others do.... So does that make me stupid, or does it make others stupid because they are too narrow minded to see things in a somewhat different light??? (like the truth maybe)??? The Civil War was stupid to begin with and that's why I gave that answer, guess you didn't like it because it was different than the point you were trying to make..... Stupid people (S/F/C) do stupid things and it doesn't make any difference where it happens on the globe, it's all still stupid.... and innocent people end up dead because of them.....
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThe West that ruled much of mankind from Columbus to the mid-20th century.
#5. To: Godwinson (#1)
Western Europe was one of the most backward parts of the world even during the Roman empire - a land of poor, stupid people until about 600 years ago or so.
#7. To: Liberator (#5)
Chyeah, those Romans and their aqueducts and Coliseums and iron works were real dolts.
#8. To: Godwinson (#7)
(Edited)
When we say "Western Europeans" we mean post Roman empire lands in the west that developed after the Germanic invasions.
#9. To: Liberator (#8)
(Edited)
So it's your position that YOUR Chinese are the crowning glory of civilization? T
#10. To: Godwinson (#9)
The West has only been the "crowning glory of [world] civilization" for the last 300 years or so. Before that the "west" was a backwater of poor, stupid peoples.
#11. To: CZ82 (#10)
They are still stupid and poor because they believe Socialism/Fascism/Communism is the shit and in the end will save them!!!!! LOL.......
#12. To: Skip Intro (#11)
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Speaking of stupid, this has to be the stupidest thing I've read here today.
#13. To: CZ82 (#12)
#14. To: Skip Intro (#13)
Why is it you idiots always combine S/F/C together as if they're the same thing? Is thought really that hard for you?
#16. To: CZ82 (#14)
#17. To: Skip Intro (#16)
Ever seen any pictures of Andersonville Prison? - that was the Civil War, FYI.
#18. To: CZ82 (#17)
Replies to Comment # 18. You really don't know anything, do you?
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