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The British role

Years ago the old guard took umbrage when a former American foreign minister aptly noted that “Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role”. The British ruling class thought they had found a new ‘role’ in the European Common Market while acting as the trans-Atlantic ‘bridge’ to play off the Americans and Europeans to their advantage. But it didn’t work out that way.

Although we’re thankfully out of the European Union, the Tories squandered the benefits of Brexit – curbing trade with People’s China in pursuit of a phantom ‘North Atlantic Trade Agreement’ that had little support within America’s ruling circles.

The Tories are split because the ruling class is still bitterly divided over Europe. Without a clear lead from his masters Starmer is left to scrabble around trying to “reset” relations with Brussels and Beijing as best he can.

While ignoring the critical state of the British economy, the Starmer government continues to do the bidding of the USA with its sanctions regime against Russia and increased military spending. This is the policy that has brought the Germans to the brink of bankruptcy. Once the industrial and economic powerhouse of Western Europe, Germany is on a self-imposed road to de-industrialisation and economic collapse by following US diktat.

But a new world is emerging beyond the European Union and the American empire. The people of the Global South are sick and tired of the fact that the Americans and their minions in the West have economically dominated the world for decades.

The BRICS bloc, which includes People’s China, is open to helping countries develop, as well as promoting investment and trade without strings or preconditions. BRICS is fighting against the concept of a new Cold War and opening the possibility of building a fairer and more equitable international economic order from which the world can benefit. The BRICS bloc is helping to build the multi-polar world that will put an end to the American dream of the “new world order” and world domination.

A new world is indeed possible but it’s not the EU or the hell-hole of the USA. It’s the world being built now in the new institutions of the Global South that offers an even playing field to all countries to trade and peacefully resolve disputes to build a better future for everyone on the planet.