2.2. War within war
This war against the people is not intentionally synchronized globally, although there are many similarities in the domestic policies of the major blocs.
The United States has entered a race against time to deal with the emergence of China, and they are throwing all their resources into building a global governance model that will allow them to preserve their dominance.
China opposes this by multiplying economic and political alliances, but in a much more discreet manner. Between these two giants, Russia, Brazil, India seek to exist, and Europe is nothing more than a sad scarecrow waved (and sacrificed) by the United States.
The system is therefore waging an internal war to control the Internet and its population, but there is not just one system: there are several fighting each other! It's war within the war... and the people really have nothing to gain from it.
International competition
One of the major challenges of international competition is to tip other political actors to one side or the other, even if they become a field of indirect struggle, like Syria or more recently Ukraine.
The international policy of the West over the past thirty years can thus be read through this prism, whether it is the destabilization of South African governments, the Arab Spring, Afghanistan, Iraq, support for Islamists in Saudi Arabia, or recently the fall of Imran Khan in Pakistan.
In this escalation, there is little room for an alternative path. Political influence games try to tip each country into one camp or the other. Even Switzerland, without any referendum, has just broken with its historic neutrality to definitively attach itself to the Western bloc in the context of the Ukrainian conflict. El Salvador is attempting a third way around Bitcoin, but how long before it is destabilized by one of the blocs?
In any case, the free and democratic facade that allowed the West to make the rest of the world dream in the 20th century is slowly crumbling and revealing a face of great power in decline, aggressive and dangerous. The political weapon of "Join the camp of freedom" is becoming weaker and weaker: if Western peoples still have trouble perceiving the activation of the totalitarian machine, our neighbors may be less blind!
The economic competition
The blocks are also engaged in an intense economic competition. The West still enjoys the domination of the dollar in international trade, an exorbitant privilege that allows it to borrow massively at low cost.
But outside the closed circle of integrated Western economies, there is a search for a way out of the domination of the dollar and the exchange systems put in place by the United States. China is patiently building its own system, limiting its dependence on the dollar and inviting non-aligned countries to join.
As a sin of pride, the Western system accelerates its decline by disconnecting Russia from its economic system, which not only throws it into the arms of China, but encourages other countries to prepare their own arbitrary disconnection.
At least two major economic blocs are emerging, one in decline, built around the West and the dollar, and the other in development, around China and the yuan. This bipolar system only accentuates international tensions.
The military competition
The system looks for every opportunity to conduct conventional warfare. Whether in Africa, the Middle East, or Asia, each conflict is an opportunity to consume military equipment and fuel the economies of the countries that produce them. At the end of the conflict, the country is devastated and must be rebuilt, the political system may be changed and agents of the system take control, unless the country is simply left in chaos.
This also allows for the testing of new military equipment, as the art of war evolves: drones, satellites, hypersonic missiles, and portable equipment change the face of combat and give a decisive advantage to those who know how to deploy them. This new military doctrine is currently being deployed in the Ukrainian conflict, where we see the powerful traditional Russian army struggling against modern weapons used by mobile and well-informed fighters.
In the background, the nuclear threat remains very real, and if catastrophe has been avoided so far, the more tensions rise, the greater the risk of a hasty decision followed by a fatal escalation.
The information war
Each bloc must control the narrative and access to information, at least within itself. This is primarily achieved through the control of communication tools. Thus, China early on cut itself off from the Western internet to set up its own platforms (search engine, social networks...).
This conflict extends to the materials used (Cisco vs Huawei) and creates silos of the internet, physical and logical, that each bloc controls as much as possible. Operators of these silos then cooperate with the governments of each bloc to control content.
There is, of course, in parallel, a digital war for access to information from other blocs, and the installation of worms and exploits that allow for attacks if necessary. This invisible cyber-conflict is an integral part of the new military doctrine.
The people are losing twice
So, it is not a globalized system that coordinates a war against the people, but two blocs engaged in a latent conflict, in a transition of power on a global scale, which are simultaneously working to control their population.
From the point of view of the people, it is a double penalty: where the war is expressed concretely, the population suffers death and destruction; and in spared countries, it is a victim of liberticide and totalitarian policies.