Keep Right — Column by Ralph K. Ginorio
“Adieu l’Ancien Regime!” Goodbye, old order! So said French Revolutionaries as they overthrew the Bourbon Monarchy and began their own bloody experiments in building a “Republic of Virtue”.
These Jacobins were consumed with enthusiasm to destroy all that had been in Louis XVI’s France, so that they might replace it with something that they were certain would be better. Often, as also happened in Russia, and China, idealistic revolutionists replace a flawed old order with Hell on Earth.
Occasionally, such bold measures to improve our lot are tempered with humility and wisdom. Christianity makes possible such humane transitions. The evolution of the English Constitutional Monarchy and the American Revolution are the classic examples of beneficial and long-lasting political and social change.
Louis XVI’s monarchy, Tsar Nicholas II’s absolutism, and China’s early 20th Century chaos were all so simultaneously incompetent, ineffective, and brutal that the damage which they often inadvertently inflicted became too traumatic for their victims to bear. The risks of change had become eclipsed by the pain of remaining constant.
So it is with today’s so-called “Rules-Based World Order”. This leviathan of unelected bureaucrats and their plutocrat patrons has presumed to seize control over all human beings, everywhere, for their own good.
Beginning with the idealistic good intentions of avant garde late 19th Century intellectuals and the political successes of European Social Democrats and American Progressives, the concept of an intelligentsia engaging in widespread social engineering was pioneered.
Even before World War I, a World Court (the Permanent Court of Arbitration) was established at the Hague, in the Netherlands. After this 1914-1918 war, the Treaty of Versailles included the League of Nations, thanks to American Progressive Woodrow Wilson. Accompanying this early attempt at shackling nations into a pan-national system, in 1920 the Permanent Court of International Justice also began sitting in the Hague.
After spectacularly failing to either keep the peace or prevent atrocity, these bodies were replaced by newer versions after World War II and the Final Solution. The United Nations Organization, the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court (the latter two both at the Hague) have all jockeyed with national governments for control since 1945.
Also after 1945, entities such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, and Interpol (the International Criminal Police Organization) have proliferated. These work within, alongside, and beyond the Free World’s post-World War II defense and alliance systems; chiefly the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Countless non-governmental organizations have grown up to benefit from the funding that such internationalist agencies spend to promote their agendas. They work in concert with Fellow Traveler politicians, including America’s Democrats and institutional Republicans, European Social Democrats and Christian Democrats (including Britain’s Conservative Party), and much of the George Soros coalition of International Socialists.
Europe coalesced after World War II into a microcosm of this new transnational system with the European Steel and Coal Commission (1951), the Treaty of Rome’s European Economic Community (1957), the Schengen Agreement’s erasing of borders (1985), and the Maastricht Treaty’s European Union (1992). In doing so, unelected bureaucrats replaced elected leaders as the key decisionmakers shaping Europe’s laws and European’s lives.
Together, these international and transnational bodies comprise the backbone of the “Rules-Based World Order”; sometimes also called the “Liberal World Order”. Many of my more conspiracy-theory-minded friends simply call them Globalists.
It is arguable, if not certain, that this burgeoning Rules-Based Order was useful in managing, but not winning, the Cold War. In the 1980s, it took dissenters from this lockstep political consensus such as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl, and Pope John Paul II to break the stalemate and actually win the Cold War.
It is certain, after the fall of the Soviets and the First Persian Gulf War, that President George Herbert Walker Bush established the “Rules-Based Order” as his “New World Order”. This interlocked latticework of treaties, financial streams, regulations, law courts, and behavioral norms would, Bush and his partners believed, manage human conflict after the 1990’s vaunted “end of history”.
Bush led this international system in appeasing China’s Communists, even right after their bloody Tiananmen Square Massacre of June 4, 1989. During the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) and Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976, Mao TseTung’s Chinese Communist Party had systematically destroyed every single social bond and institution that made civil life worth living. Traditional China had effectively been destroyed and its economy collapsed.
Thanks to the Rules-Based Order, the very same mass murderers who should have lost power because of their atrocities were instead given such munificent wealth from decades of Western investment that they now pose a threat to every single regional neighbor. These tyrants were saved from overthrow and they now threaten to assert global dominion, all because European and American leaders assured investors that China was safe, and that Western investment would liberalize these Communists into becoming stakeholders in the “Rules-Based Order”. None of this was true.
Corruption on unprecedented scales thrived under this “Rules-Based Order”, particularly under the auspices of the United Nations Organization. Totalitarians were stabilized, consigning entire national populations to captivity. The “New World Order” would see the West decline gracefully, and new global powers would arise from the Third World and inherit this system to use as their own.
Not the elites, though. A pan-national technocracy would be established after a “Great Reset”, bringing the planetary population under a common regulatory system. In this system, according to the World Economic Forum, non-elite civilians will own nothing yet will still be happy.
These very “Rules-Based” systems are now being used to stifle dissent and establish unpopular universal structures which will manage restive First World populations. These new international structures prioritize environmental sustainability and refugee resettlement over the will of the citizens of the Developed World.
This makes the “Rules-Based World Order” as great a threat to peace and freedom as the Chinese Communist Party. It must be thoroughgoingly deconstructed. Adieu l’Ancien Regime!
Like the Conservative leaders of Reagan’s time, President Donald J. Trump and his second Administration seem to be purposefully undermining and demolishing this “Rules-Based Order”. In Iran, Venezuela, the United Nations, Greenland, NATO, the European Union, the non-governmental organizations, military expansion, negotiations with the Russians, and preparations to defeat the Chinese Communists, Trump is acting unilaterally and against the elites’ rules.
His goal is not a gentle sunset of America and the West. It is, instead, the triumph of a revived Judeo-Christian Western Civilization within and beyond the USA which will preserve freedom at home and security abroad. We should each do what we can to help him in this necessary fight!
