Liberal World Order

The Liberal World Order refers to the global hegemony exercised by the United States in the "unipolar moment" as liberal triumphalism after the end of the Cold War in 1991. In recent years it has sometimes been referred to as the rules based order, as a departure from the shortcomings of the United Nations Charter in the field of international law. The "rules based order" has been widely interpreted in Eurasia, Africa, Latin America and throughout the Global South as the United States State Department dictating, "we make the rules, you follow orders."

Commitment to maintaining the liberal world order was reiterated by the Biden Administration's National Economic Council director Brian Deese on CNN on June 30, 2022, in response to a question that it is unsustainable for Americans to continue to be subjected to $4.85 per gallon of gas. Deese responded: "This is about the future of the liberal world order and we have to stand firm."

The liberal world order is an effort to end fossil fuel consumption and implement the World Economic Forum's Great Reset and Build Back Better program through the Green New Deal and demonizing Russia and Putin. The goal is to get rid of private cars and turn people into insectivores with the war on cow farts.

Background

Dr. Rob Campbell wrote that the 'rules based order' came into existence following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Liberal triumphalism reveled in the words of Francis Fukuyama declaring 'the end of history'. Whereas Karl Marx theorized that the higher form of socialism (i.e. communism) will mark the end of historical development, Fukuyama believed that the collapse of the Soviet system demonstrated that capitalism was the pinnacle of development. Dr. Campbell noted, "this sort of thinking is more ideological than it is philosophical or scientific. Neither liberals nor Marxists can discount the possibility that other forms of development could occur in the future. It’s just dogma really."

In practice, the so called 'rules based order' is based on a nebulous and conflicting set of rules which allow the US and the West to pick and choose rules that suit its objectives. Thus, for example, the wishes of minorities to become separate from their state could conflict with another rule which values territorial integrity. In the NATO war in Serbia (1998/99), the US promoted the first rule in allowing Kosovo to be created as an independent state in spite of the fact that this broke the rule relating to the inviolability of Serbia's territorial integrity. Yet in the Crimean Annexation, after the CIA backed Maidan coup, it opposed the rights of minorities to break with their state.

This erroneous thinking permeated the leadership of the Western world giving it a false sense of its morality as it attempted to impose liberal values on errant neighbors. The US could now boast that it was the only superpower. The system of diplomacy that had characterized international relations for centuries was replaced by a system based on certain moral assumptions that were thought to be Universal. Liberals told other nations that it must extend rights to minority groups, including the LGBT movement, or that it must be governed by liberal democratic political systems similar to the Western model.

Even more absurd, was the expectation that the developing world should conform to energy policies based on a dubious assumption that human activities, including the production of carbon dioxide in fossil fuels, was causing catastrophic global warming. This forced many African nations into poverty. The West was trying to impose its morality and its pseudoscience onto the rest of the planet whose countries were rewarded (e.g. IMF loans) or punished (e.g. economic sanctions) in accordance with their conformity to all this nonsense. Over the years, the nonsense became more and more ridiculous as wokeness took hold.

The fact that a number of nations, hitherto economically inferior to the West, were growing rapidly, meant that the balance of economic power in the world was shifting towards these nations (i.e. e.g. China, Brazil, Iran and India). China’s Belt and Road initiative was part of this. Such developments cannot be prevented by the forceful methods of Western 'democracies'. Faced with a challenge from Russia, with support from other BRICS nations, the West, having abandoned diplomacy, could respond only with force: by imposing sanctions, by making threats and by supporting its proxy wars to the point of speeding up its own demise.

External link

• From International Law to the Rules-Based International Order - Professor Glenn Diesen