When I address any topic in my articles, I always try to go deeper into the sources of the information I quote. And although I'm not a journalist, if there's one thing that my university education taught me in three long and long-suffering theses -undergraduate, master's and doctorate- is that if you're going to say something, it had better have a basis: who, where and why. But sometimes you come across something that makes sense, but anonymously and I think it is important to go deeper, because that happened to me with a text that is now rolling profusely in the networks, and although anonymous, I still spread it because I think it is exactly what is happening in the world. The text is entitled: “It will have repercussions in the world”... “The USA is in danger and with it the whole western hemisphere”, and you can read it in Spanish in https://tinyurl.com/5yaxcwsx. But even so, it still made me uncomfortable to quote an anonymous person in my notes, even though I think it makes sense, so I decided to dig deeper.
And indeed, before writing this note, I could not stay with that and I investigated a little more because such a text does not come out of nowhere, finally discovering that this “anonymous” was nothing more than the expansion and updating of an article by a great Venezuelan, Zulian lawyer and writer in the US diaspora, Kaled Yorde, disappeared in the year 2023, and published just 4 years ago following the controversial results of the November 3, 2020 elections in the US. And it is from there that we must contextualize Yorde's ideas from the original article. The article, published on November 11, 2020 in the portal venezuelausa.org, is entitled “Kaled Yorde: Did you know that we are at war? (see Kaled Yorde, venezuelausa.org, in https://venezuelausa.org/2020/11/kaled-yorde-sabian-que-estamos-en-guerra/).
Kaled Yorde was not just any article writer. “Yorde was the author of 12 books including The Law of Karma, Chains of the Soul and Behind the Veil of Death, Right Human Relations, Universal Religion and Synthesis of Spiritual Wisdom” (see in Spanish Kaled Yorde, wisdom and simplicity that leaves a deep mark among the Venezuelan diaspora in the U.S., in https://venezuelausa.org/2023/07/kaled-yorde-sabiduria-y-sencillez-que-deja-una-profunda-huella-entre-la-diaspora-venezolana-en-eeuu/). That is not something that can be easily dismissed and even less so if pieces of his authorship are used to delve into a topic, especially a reality such as the one addressed in that article. The least they could have done out of minimal intellectual respect for the author was to reference him when expanding on his ideas.
And it is from there that I will begin, as it should be, by referring to Yorde's original article -and not to the anonymous one- in his idea of the two fundamental objectives that move the international left, and that today revive as if 4 years had not passed. The first: the international left aims to prevent “Donald Trump from being re-elected, they want to prevent at all costs that the American president remains in the White House and manages to disrupt the global plot that leftists and big capital involved, radical groups that seek to control the U.S. (and the world) under the ‘progressive’ ideology of the single thought, the new socialism. At this moment President Trump is literally the retaining wall protecting Freedom and Progress from the serious attempt of socialist subjugation”.
Well, they did it. Trump did not stay in the White House despite the allegations and lawsuits of voter fraud that emerged after the 2020 US election. We have seen the strenuous efforts in these 4 years of many people to stop again the candidacy of Donald Trump through countless lawsuits and accusations, including 3 assassination attempts.
Likewise, it has been 4 years of regression for the world. A world with no one in control. Wars that started in that span, where the US had little or no control, translating this to the stability of the western world. Apparently, the “policeman of the world” without action or retreating due to a progressive neo-policy, which ignores the specific weight of that country in what happens in the planet, has brought as a consequence the growth of a block of countries, which under the banner of the so-called multipolarity, what it really wants in reality is to be the other block that opposes the USA, in the geopolitical order as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) once did.
This new bloc called BRICS, after the initials of its founding countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is beginning to emerge as a representative of the so-called Global South. Later, in the year 2024, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates joined. All this without counting those waiting in the queue for approval, such as Venezuela.
However, the BRICS, initially gathered in 2009 as an initiative of countries for the development of their own economies, begins to make great strides for the geopolitical challenge of the West, all under the leadership of Russia and China. Let's see:
“Russia and China have thus turned the BRICS into an anti-Western project with the aim of breaking the hegemony of the Western powers in the current global order and the predominance of the US dollar in the global economy. The emancipatory elements of the founding phase, linked to an ambition for comprehensive development, give way to a geopolitical project characterized by traditional power politics, economic and military strength and influence in foreign policy. If the enlargement that has taken place becomes the norm, there is a good chance that the BRICS+ will degenerate into a club of predominantly autocratic regimes. This transformation offers nothing in terms of progress for the peoples of the developing world and is more likely to result in a return to the kind of great power politics that characterized the 19th century. The multipolar world of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping makes neo-imperialist claims on self-defined spheres of interest. It is not subject to any rules and is the exact opposite of a multilateral world in which everyone acts according to the same rules. This notion of multipolarity destroys the rule-based order and replaces the force of law with the law of the strongest. Each autocratic leader is guaranteed freedom of action in his own country.” (see in Spanish BRICS: from developmentalist ambition to geopolitical challenge, Nueva Sociedad / March-April 2024, in https://tinyurl.com/32a3tksv) (emphasis added)
One understands then the strong ideological tendency and the interests of destruction of Western culture that move these BRICS countries and the consequent concern of a free world based on the respect of Human Rights.
In this global context, Yorde's premonitory article warns of the following objective of the international left: “Second objective, to try to prevent by all available means the Trump administration from putting an end to the Venezuelan dictatorship, to the Cuban cancer, and to the rest of the leftist and narco-trafficking groups that finance them and still control a good part of the hemisphere. The leftists of the Americas, including Venezuela, Europe, Asia, and radical Arab groups, all enemies of the West and its democracies, are actively participating in the achievement of this nonsense”.
And that objective formulated 4 years ago by Yorde, coincides perfectly with the essence of the BRICS agenda today in 2024:
“BRICS is a purely intergovernmental project. This is not surprising considering how China and Russia treat citizens who do not conform to the system: they are systematically monitored (especially under China's social credit system), persecuted, sometimes killed or interned in various ways.” (article quoted from New Society / March-April 2024) (emphasis added). If we join to that that “Every autocratic leader is guaranteed freedom of action in his own country” it is understood which way autocratic regimes prefer to join or pretend to join that association, threatening the stability of the free world.
Yorde was right when he said that this is a new struggle that is developing in the world that began many years ago, in a context full of inequalities: “This goes far beyond the struggle for Freedom, it is the struggle of good to defeat the evil that wants to impose itself based on violence, racism and manipulation of the truth. We are at war, and we need the effort of all, we have to persevere, and with the help of God and very clear ideas, have the possibility of a prosperous future where justice and freedom prevail once again”.
It is very clear that Trump is an obstacle for those pushing this bloc of countries, now with new objectives. Do the BRICS countries have a chance of replacing in a confrontation the power and economic stature of the Western countries with the USA at the forefront? I doubt it very much and not in the short term, but in fact there is such a war, but in a latent state and if provisions are not taken immediately and forces are balanced worldwide, avoiding the growth of this anti-Western bloc, war will be a foreseeable consequence, and we will be in the middle of it. For that reason it will be crucial and necessary to define and manifest right now who will be on each side, because neutrality will no longer be possible from now on. I hope that Venezuela will define itself once and for all on the side of the West after the election of Donald Trump as President of the USA on November 5th, with all that this implies...
Caracas, November 2, 2024
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