The End of the Neoliberal World Order?

Multipolarity, Nonpolarity, the Struggle for Sovereignty

After a recent appearance on the Counterflow Podcast the question I’ve been asked the most is “why would you, as an American, support Multipolarity?”

This is an important question as it may seem counterintuitive for an American who enjoys the benefits, real or perceived, of his nation's hegemonic world order to support multipolarity. I support the move to a multipolar world because the alternative is not the maintenance of the current status quo, nor a return to bipolarity, but something far more troubling- a Nonpolar World. 

The sovereignty of states and peoples are being subsumed - largely through technological advancements culminating in a sort of global virtual consciousness - into a single, undifferentiated mass of generic humanity, a so-called open society governed by a small group of technocrats. This is the egalitarian world government which Klaus Schwab says will require us to sacrifice all privacy, all property - indeed all humanity - in exchange for happiness. This has become possible through a unique combination of political, cultural, and historical developments which have coalesced in near biblical fashion.

Unipolarity in Transition

The concept of nonpolarity and a means of implementing such a system really gathered steam amidst conversations in the 1990s - though it existed in theory prior to this. With the collapse of the Cold War dialectic, Western thinkers envisioned an end of history and the possibilities of a new egalitarian world order. But the global and technological infrastructure necessary to bring this new world order to fruition had not yet emerged. The infrastructure necessary to establish nonpolarity would begin to emerge during, and as a result of, the hegemon’s bull in a china shop decade (1998-2008). 

This is the decade which led to the loss of US prestige abroad and, eventually, outright opposition: Congressional ratification of NATO expansion in the mid 1990s, and the continuation of this policy up to Russia’s red line on NATO membership being extended to Georgia and Ukraine; the Kosovo conflict and Pristina Airport incident; The dozen or so State Department initiated Color Revolutions; US unilateral withdrawal from the ABM treaty; 2003 Iraq War.

This period revealed, in essence, that while on paper the US had full-spectrum dominance, it had very little usable power. By usable power, I mean the ability to use military, diplomatic, economic and cultural assets to achieve a foreign policy objective. This precipitated a shift in US policy towards Multilateralism - a policy for which the Obama Administration would become archetypal.

Multilateralism and the Rise of Nonpolarity

Multilateralism would see the US make a concerted effort to give its vassals a seat at the table in the decision-making process. Instead of announcing a decision to its satellites after it had been made in a dictatorial fashion, the US would consult and negotiate with allies, and even capitulate when necessary to come to a consensus. It was believed that this would result in less tension and resentment between the United States, its satellites, and rising powers on the world stage. It would also allow the US to have a smaller footprint abroad. 

To accomplish this, Obama and the neoliberals relied heavily on the CIA and other three letter agencies, which underwent historical transformations. To be clear, this had begun under Bush jr. as a result of the Globar War on Terrorism, but the neocons had a healthy distrust of the CIA and were hesitant to write them a blank check.¹

Under Barack Obama, the CIA, State Department, and partner organizations abroad became not only larger and more interconnected, but began launching widespread operations across the globe with little to no oversight. During the Obama years, the US carried out routine assassinations, regime change and other clandestine operations across dozens of sovereign nations.² Relations with Russia went from strained to hostile, as did US-China relations.  

The problem which faced the multilateralists was that, while they criticized the neocons for their more out and open zeal for maintaining a unipolar hegemony, they themselves still believed in American Exceptionalism and the universality of American ideals.³ Both fail to recognize the numerous interconnected fallacies underlying American foreign policy:

1. American values are not universal. They came into being as a result of particular socio-historical processes in a particular cultural environment. These are not shared outside of the West - and not completely even with other Western nations outside of the Anglosphere. This leads to our second point.

2. Global homogenization stifles innovation and results in a loss of sovereignty among those peoples whose cultures, governments, and economies are usurped by Americanism. Alexandr Dugin is correct in saying “the spread of American values occurs alongside the realization of practical American interests and expansion of the area of direct American control…” Furthermore, a single global system of thought and action functions the same way as homogenous crop populations - a disease/problem affecting one plant/nation then topples the whole. Civilizational diversity enables a broader scope of solutions to emerging threats and enriches the experience of mankind.

3. The Rules Based World Order is arbitrary and contrary to the laws of nature. It requires other nations to capitulate their own interests and sovereignty in favor of “universal” (ie, American) values and structures. As US and Israeli military action across the twenty-first century has made clear, the rules-based order functions only in one direction.

This last point is especially important. We forget that all of the “international” or “global” organizations were founded, funded, and backed up by the military and industrial might of the United States and the Atlanticist axis - the United Nations, International Criminal Court, International Monetary Fund, European Union and Central Bank, etc… and are explicitly based on the notion that our ideals and values are universal. This arrangement forces other nations to sacrifice their own values and sovereignty to gain access to global markets and resources - or face the combined might of American power. 

This monopoly of access is why the Eurasian states and the Global South have come to resent the collective West so deeply - arguably far more so even than from the unilateral military actions of the American hegemony itself.

Now, one might say, “well, doesn’t that prove that the US does indeed have useable power, and a tremendous amount of useable power at that?” But that would be to miss the point entirely. It was the flexing of this monopoly of power and access in both the response to the COVID pandemic and the February 2022 Special Military Operation in Ukraine which sent the Russians fleeing into the arms of China and the Global South into the arms of the emerging Eurasian Axis.

If the application of US power had been effective, there would be peace in Ukraine and the increasing threat to Taiwan averted. Instead, BRICS - the nexus of resistance - has been emboldened, and is developing an alternative system of world trade. Just this week, China dumped over $86,000,000 in US Treasury Bonds, and BRICS is reporting historic levels of trade being moved outside of the USD, including in the oil markets - threatening to topple the petrodollar within the decade.

Multilateralism was, therefore, a complete failure and further revealed the West’s lack of useable power.

What Multilateralism accomplished in effect was loosening the grip of US politicians from the steering wheel, allowing these various mechanisms of its global power projection to operate with far less accountability and oversight. By the late 2010s this coalition of Western intelligence assets (both state actors and state directed NGOs), technocrats, and the global infrastructure of the Atlanticist world order, were now operating in an interconnected, semi-autonomous fashion.

The Multilateralism of the 2010’s has served as little more than a transitional phase meant to enable the unipolar world to evolve into what has been called a Global Information Society.

In other words, the very organizations and apparatuses which acted as the hammer of neoconservative unipolarity, which encouraged the neoliberal shift to multilateral unipolarity, and which were strengthened to be able to carry out the wishes of the neoliberal world order in a semi-autonomous fashion, are precisely those now coalescing into a global architecture of a nonpolar world order. 

But the mere existence of this infrastructure in and of itself is not enough to accomplish this egalitarian fantasy we have mentioned. To accomplish this the distinctions and peculiarities which allow for a divergence in purpose or custom must be eradicated - both at the personal and collective level. In other words, nonpolarity requires the dissolution of all particularity into an androgynous and supposedly benevolent absolute. 

Nearly 2,400 years after the death of Plato, in an age in which we’ve proclaimed the death of philosophy, we find ourselves still wrestling with the problem of the one and the many. Fate, it seems, has a sense of irony. But I digress. 

The New Religious Consciousness

This need to destroy distinctions and particularity explains the push towards religious pluralism and towards scientism. As we’ve seen, Atheism won’t work, as it leads people to latch on to ideologies and this creates division. This new scientism is not science as such, it is a religionization of pseudoscientific theories and “common knowledge,” built out into an all-encompassing worldview. The beauty of it, from the perspective of the technocrats, is that one doesn’t necessarily have to give up their religion, they only have to accept that “the science” is of an equal order of knowledge.

Herein lies the rise of the experts, the new priestly caste in white coats. Like the priests of of ancient Greece and Rome whose job it was to interpret the Sibylline books and oracles, today’s experts interpret the data and prescribe society ritual means of purification - masks, jabs, carbon credits, etc...

We saw this with particular clarity in 2020. In spite of the complete assault on reason which was the many proposed solutions to that scenario and the repeatedly wrong predictions and prescriptions, the majority clung to Fauci and the CDC like the garments of Christ. The act of wearing a mask, standing six feet apart and taking experimental medications became public displays of piety. Anyone refusing to offer incense to the state gods was berated in public, prevented from traveling, visiting family, or remaining gainfully employed.

The World Health Organization (WHO), Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), MIT, Boston Dynamics, et al. have become the Apostolic Sees of Scientism. Science fiction functions both as myth and prophecy. This is not mere conjecture, but the culmination of a long process of dechristianization and the worship of human reason. But dechristianization and the worship of reason and abstract mathematics led to the need for a new metaphysic, they found it in the usual place - eastern paganism.

The philosophical underpinnings of Nonpolarity, or at least of those who seek to implement it, are largely based in Eastern metaphysics - which many in the scientific community have adopted over the course of the last century or so. Indian metaphysics in particular (as well as the occult but that’s a separate discussion) became particularly attractive to prominent members of the scientific community - this is especially true among modern physicists. Like modern science, Indian metaphysics postulate a universe that, while materially in flux, is itself an eternal Absolute. The flux of material and man is never truly destroyed, it is instead recapitulated into the Absolute, and reincarnated in a different form - think of energy, the life cycle, etc…. 

However, if man can transcend his humanity, he can, like the universe, become divine and eternal. This is a fundamental supposition of transhumanism, and transhumanism is the guiding philosophy of scientism writ large, and the nonpolar project. Politics is merely the application of philosophy to the realm of human organization, and that is precisely what we see here. Techno-feudalism, and the emerging nonpolar world, is simply the application of transhumanism to the realm of politics.

We do not need to define transhumanism here - there are men far more knowledgeable on the topic than myself and I have merely attempted to summarize the trends leading to this phenomenon. But none of this would be possible if the global population were staunchly religious and grounded in tradition - or even if the West were rooted in an authentic Christian metaphysic. The problem is that technology has usurped these traditional moorings simply by the speed of its advancement.

Time and Technology

In the 1960s it was said that human knowledge would double within the next decade. This process has since sped up and continues to do so at an exponential pace (Moore’s Law) to where human knowledge is doubled annually and computing capacity at an even quicker pace. For all intents and purposes, this is a real acceleration of time itself.

Since the 19th century then, mankind has grown old in a world unlike that of his youth. This is especially true today when the world is unrecognizable, both technologically and culturally, from that which existed just twenty years ago. Detached from his traditional moorings of faith, family, and ethnos, we have lost any notion of ultimate truths or standard of knowledge, any stability in beliefs or circumstances. This acceleration of time has resulted in a radical rewiring of human consciousness. And it’s not limited to time.

Likewise, technology has developed into a state in which distances which used to take months and years of travel can be covered in hours. It was not long ago that it would take weeks, months to send a diplomatic message (months more to receive a response), this can be achieved before lunch. Alliances spanning the globe can coordinate in real time as if standing shoulder to shoulder. The impact this has had on geopolitics is hard to grasp for those of us who don’t know an earlier, slower time.

Space too then, has been compressed and the world has become a smaller place. This compression of space and time, aided by algorithms and AI, has resulted in an ever more interconnected earth and human civilization. Foreign news agencies are no longer a neutral barometer by which to measure mass propagandizing at home, as global networks can now react in unison (and near instantaneously) to any development contrary to their agenda. The overwhelming continuity in narrative makes it ever more difficult for everyday people to see through the charade. All of the nations of the world, once proud and independent states of a people with particular tendencies, worldviews, and allegiances are rapidly casting off their traditional identities in expectation of prosperity and progress, being dissolved into the absolute of the open society.

Can we turn the tide?

The lockdowns of 2020 allowed, if but for a moment, for time to slow down to a more normative state, allowing the average person to stop and look around at the world they’ve been living in. For the first time the veil was pulled back and we could see the techno-feudal world order which had been building for the last several decades at an ever-increasing pace. Most Americans, stripped as we are of any grounding to the transcendent, were so thoroughly demoralized by this event that when the lockdowns ended, they gladly plugged back into the matrix.

For those of us who see, multipolarity is the only hope for preventing the technocratic enslavement of mankind and restoring the West to what it once was. Multipolarity is the only way to restore and protect the sovereignty of individuals and ethnos. Only by rejecting globalism and its infrastructure, by rejecting cultural and intellectual hegemony and reaffirming a Christian, Civilizational worldview, can we break the back of nonpolarity. We are its architects after all and are therefore the ones most capable of forestalling its full implementation.

Americans must reject false notions of the universality of our own values and dismantle the so-called rules-based world order. We must affirm the rights of civilizations other than our own to self-determination and dismantle the artificial cultural satellites we have erected across the globe. We must accept as a base supposition that modern Western modes of governance are not morally, or even technically, superior. In fact, they are philosophically deficient.

This means going into geopolitical debates and negotiations with the understanding that each side is doing what is best for its own people and coming to a point of consensus based on mutual benefit. It means not presupposing that our foreign policy objectives are morally superior; it means not forcing others to accept our values or face global isolation and possibly destruction. It means establishing a world order in which the sovereignty of nations is not merely a de jure reality, but a de facto reality as well - where nations aren’t forced to play ball by an all-powerful hegemon.

This doesn’t neccesarily mean we need to be best friends with Russia, China, or any other nation. It does mean that we need to reject the propaganda which makes them out to be an enemy or inherently evil. It means we should respect their spheres of influence and demand the respect of our own, and these lines should be drawn along civilizational lines.

But Americans must first turn from secularism and back towards our own Christian heritage; we must cast down scientism and reaffirm Christian faith, ritual, and ethics. This does not mean a complete rejection of technology or modern science, but erecting boundaries, reinterpreting their findings and use within a Christian framework and discarding what is incompatible. But this can only be done through a relentless pursuit of truth and knowledge.

The unipolar moment has passed, and it isn’t coming back. Multipolarity is the only reasonable position which reasonable Americans can take in the face of the threat posed by nonpolarity and other egalitarian nightmares. The first step in avoiding this hellish future, is recognizing the precarious situation we are in, grounding ourselves deeply in the fertile soil of Christian Truth and adopting a civilizational worldview with which to critique the prevailing ideologies of the nonpolar world order. As Alexander Dugin has said, the goal of Multipolarity is not the destruction of the West, but its restoration.

But restoration only comes about through repentance, and it is through this door which the West must walk if it is to regain its continuity with Christendom and dismantle the architecture of nonpolarity for good.

1. The initial expansion of the three letter agencies was due to the need for closer collaboration in the Global War on Terrorism and the need for manpower. This resulted in the contracting boom made famous by groups like Blackwater USA and the Benghazi debacle.

2. See Way of the Knife, by Mark Mazetti

3. This is not to imply that Western values are bad, only that they are not universal. Our values are the result of specific social, cultural, and historical pressures and processes. Other civilizations have their own value systems which make sense for their societies based on the social, cultural, and historical processes which they have undergone.

To claim that any one of them is universal in application almost demands conflict and, if universalized, stagnation and decay. We saw this play out when the collapse of US markets led to a global recession. This is similar to the problems we see with the industrial production of a single species of crop. They become incapable of adapting to new threats and die off en masse. Multiplicity allows for competitive innovation and a more resilient system.