Even a casual understanding of history would determine that the catastrophe of World War I was the result of a multitude of bilateral agreements and treaties between the European nations. About 20 million—equally divided between military and civilian—deaths occurred primarily because “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
About a year after the war ended, the first step towards “preventing war through collective security and settling disputes” came with the formation of the League of Nations. The League did pretty well resolving problems over the Åland Islands and Upper Silesia.
Of course, World War II cancelled out any semblance of success about multilateral “peace organizations.”
But hope is eternal, and the United Nations sought to guarantee that there would never—at least in Europe—be war between countries. That has been mostly true as long as you do not count the Bosnian genocide and maybe Russia’s takeover of Crimea.
On the non-European front, the UN has had problems bringing international cooperation for peace in Africa, with Russia in Afghanistan, the US in Vietnam, and the border disputes with India, Pakistan, and China.
The world has added in the past 70 years the European Union, Nato, the World Economic Forum, the G-7, G-15, and G-20 groups, as well as numerous other groups ending in ‘TO’ —Treaty Organizations.
A 17th devotion written by John Donne includes the poem “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main” which as applied to nations is a clear reading on “globalism” that all countries are connected. “Globalism” is the Silk Road that connected Asia and Europe.
But “globalization” is a thickening of globalism whereby “what you do affects me” and therefore I have the right, even the obligation to tell you what to do and not do. The problem is that people—ordinary citizens—in one country do not like being told what to do by people in another country.
We know how to bring about total cooperation among nations: an alien invasion. Remember the movie Independence Day? Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman: “If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack, and we needed a massive build-up to counter the space alien threat, and inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this [economic] slump would be over in 18 months.”
But to “save the world” as in the movie 2012, the “G-7” (plus China, of course) makes all the decisions. None of the Indian Dalit class or residents (now former) of the Payatas dumpsite were on board the arks to continue humanity.
Aliens are unpredictable. But we know it is only a whimsical conspiracy theory to believe the Covid pandemic was planned. However, it is a truth that the “G-7” (plus China, of course) are calling all the shots.
The WHO and CDC decide the health protocols. Organizations like Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations through COVAX “accelerate the development and manufacture of Covid-19 vaccines, and to guarantee fair and equitable access for every country in the world.”
The Great Reset is the name of the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held in June 2020, with the theme of rebuilding society and the economy following the Covid-19 pandemic. May 15, 2020 from WEF: “Covid-19 offers an opportunity to ‘reset and reshape’ the world in a way that is more aligned with the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.”
It is probably comforting to know that a group of global experts have decided to determine the future of the world. Or maybe not.
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