Metaphors mislead. What is going on in the world in the first month of the second quarter of the 21st century is unlike anything that has occurred before. This is not “a shifting of tectonic plates” or “the Titanic sinking”. We have entered a new quaternary, which is itself a metaphor, but one that is sufficiently large and abstract not to be too misleading.
Europe, which effectively invented the world order, has, equally effectively, now rudely withdrawn from it. European leaders born after the Second World War – and that includes all British prime ministers since Margaret Thatcher – have turned their half of the Eurasian landmass into a smug, welfarist, immigrationist ruin, incapable of defending itself or projecting its power even into its own skies or seas.
The states that are inheriting the globe, for all their many deficiencies, take their own identity very, very seriously indeed. These are China, India, Russia and the USA, namely the CIRU bloc. We know of Russia’s many weaknesses: But a lack of a coherent sense of self is not one of them. The liberal-globalists within the USA still control much of the internal workings of that country, but its outward reach very much (thank God) belongs to the America-first school. The liberal-globalists might well triumph in the coming mid-terms and then in the presidential election. In which case the USA will probably resume its journey towards extinction, as conceived by the Clinton-Obama regimes, and nearly brought to catastrophic fruition by the Biden-Harris alliance. Meaning that China-India-Russia will inherit the earth, and probably reap a whirlwind. Yes, I know: Metaphors. Sorry. More to come.
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