Authoritarian regimes across the world and members of the billionaire class have united for a showdown against international liberalism and the alliances that hold it together, and that explains a lot of the international and domestic political conflict we’ve seen since 2020 in West-aligned nations
Authoritarian regimes across the world and members of the billionaire class have united for a showdown against international liberalism and the alliances that hold it together, and that explains a lot of the international and domestic political conflict we’ve seen since 2020 in West-aligned nations
There is a giant mix of unholy alliances and interests at an international scale that seek to transition sovereignty away from democratic institutions and towards autocratic ones. Our international and domestic adversaries are counting on each country in the NATO and EU alliances to look at things and adopt stances that are national specific and chauvinistic, thereby destroying those alliances from within.
The domestic adversaries are composed of, at least in part, multinational corporations that have been pissed off at EU regulations for almost two decades, one of the last places that has closed off to pure corporate exploitation of anything and everything. Their allegiance therefore comes from their interest in destabilizing and dismantling the EU, and they’ll work with Putin and whoever else to interfere in our elections and mess with our minds and passions through social media to accomplish that goal, even including wrecking NATO as long as they’re promised safety in any new regime(s).
They also have willing and eager participants in the far right of each of these countries ready to partner with them, especially given the opportunity for them to seize power in said countries and to implement fascist/nationalist regimes that make strong-arm Putin-type politics acceptable in international politics again, and also happily facilitate the concentration of wealth and power to the billionaires that helped install them there.
I appreciate and welcome any thoughtful discussion on this theory!