For
Thierry Meyssan, one of the consequences of the successive ends of
the bipolar and unipolar world is the re-establishment of colonial
projects. One after the other, the French, Turkish and English have
publicly declared the return of their colonial ambitions. We still
need to know what form they will adopt in the 21st century.
by
Thierry Meyssan
Part
3 - The British Empire
As for
the United Kingdom, it has been hesitating for two years about its
future after the Brexit.
A little
after the arrival of Donald Trump at the White House, Prime Minister
Theresa May went to the United States. Speaking to the
representatives of the Republican Party, she proposed re-establishing
the Anglo-Saxon leadership of the rest of the world. But President
Trump has been elected to liquidate these imperial dreams, not to
share them.
Disappointed,
Theresa May then travelled to China in order to propose that
President Xi Jinping share control of international exchanges. The
City, she said, was ready to ensure the convertibility of Western
currencies into Yuan. But President Xi had not been elected to do
business with an heiress of the power which had dismantled his
country and imposed on the Chinese their opium war.
Theresa
May tried a third version with the Commonwealth. Some of the
ex-colonies of the Crown, like India, are today enjoying powerful
growth and could become precious commercial partners. Symbolically,
the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Charles, was raised to the
Presidency of this association. Mrs. May announced that we are on our
way to a Global Britain.
In an
interview with the Sunday Telegraph on 30 December 2018, the
British Minister for Defence, Gavin Williamson, published his
analysis of the situation. Since the fiasco of the Suez Canal in
1956, the United Kingdom has implemented a policy of decolonisation,
and has withdrawn its troops from the rest of the world. Today, it
conserves permanent military bases only in Gibraltar, Cyprus, Diego
Garcia and the «Falklands», to give these islands their imperial
title.
For the
last 63 years, London has been oriented towards the European Union,
invented by Winston Churchill, but to which, initially, he never
imagined that England would belong. The Brexit «tears this policy to
shreds». From now on, «the United Kingdom is back as a global
power».
London
is planning to open two permanent military bases. The first will
probably be in Asia (Singapore or Brunei), and the second in Latin
America - most likely in Guyana, in order to participate in the new
stage of the Rumsfeld-Cebrowski strategy of the destruction of those
regions of the world which are not connected to globalisation. After
the «African Great Lakes», the «Greater Middle East», it’s time
for the «Caribbean Basin». The war will probably start with an
invasion of Venezuela by Colombia (pro-US), Brazil (pro-Israëli) and
Guyana (pro-British).
Taking
no notice of the smooth speechifying of the French, the English built
an empire with the collaboration of multinational companies in the
service of which it placed its army. They divided the world into two
parts, which may be summed up as follows - the sovereign was the King
of England (and therefore submitted to political tradition over here)
and the Emperor of India (in other words subjected to the private
East India Company and unlimited autocrat over there).
Decolonisation
was a corollary of the Cold War. It was forced on the States of
Western Europe by the duopoly of the USA and the USSR. This held
during the time of the unipolar world, but now meets no obstacles
since the US withdrawal from the «Greater Middle East».
It is
difficult to anticipate what form this future colonisation will take.
Long ago, it was made possible by the huge differences in the level
of education. But today?
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