USA. Goodbye to the Russian Doll?
June 23, 2020
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
Governance in Mexico is highly dependent on the United States. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, a process of subordination, coupling and integration was generated, where our country linked the caste counter-reformist structure with Anglo-Saxon colonialism. North America used Mexico as an experiment in its imperialism and, like Spain, had to take over the vanquished.
Unlike other empires, according to Heinz Dieterich, the United States found an adequate way to exercise its hegemony: Consumerism instead of Communism and Nationalism. That has been the key to great American power; but, also, the piece that is generating your sclerosis.
Compared to other imperialisms, the North American promoted capitalism and free markets so that the countries of its vital sphere assimilated western modernity. Like all empires, it was effective in supporting its subjects and, even better, in finding the formulas to maintain cohesion and generate synergies that, in the economic perspective, generated western wealth and made the metropolis an Eden of liberal capitalist democracy.
Nothing is forever and, therefore, the exhaustion of the United States generated the crisis that led to the election of Donald Trump as representative of the executive power. The difficulties for President Trump to re-elect himself are increasing and, apparently, the social movements and the health crisis, decisively inhibit the future of his political career. For this reason, the departure of Trump forces reconsiderations regarding the geopolitical changes that are seen.
Despite the fact that Donald Trump was considered a reissue of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush, the period of one of the most controversial American rulers shows a singular exhaustion of the Superpower. Corruption homologated the Democratic and Republican Party, social outrage is likely to lead to unique transformations in the American electoral system, otherwise the WASP hegemony will have to take radical steps to continue imposing itself. The dilemma is whether to maintain the United States as a geopolitical empire or to seize the most important financial and criminal centers to subdue and manage the world.
Andrés Oppenhaimer, for example, has witnessed the geopolitical interest in developing a capitalism of friends in Latin America that weakens institutions, generates immense poverty and triggers a deep economy of informality and crime. Immigration, drug trafficking and geopolitics have brought the United States to the possibility of hegemonic loss and the empowerment of Russia, China and Islam. A condition that is not important for the world economic elite because, in the long term, it has been more profitable to manage production processes than political mechanisms.
The fall of Donald Trump can mean the reconstruction of the Nation State as well as the redirection of economic globalism. It is important to democratize capitalism and contain the voracity of the economic groups that override the communities of the Nation State. The responsibility is on the Democratic side. Few enemies remain in the world for the traditional geopolitical route of the United States, almost everyone is capitalist and consumerist, but it depends on the North American market to support itself.
The role of world superpolice is something that accompanies imperialism, the United States has the obligation to play it, inside and outside, in a successful and responsible way, if it does not want to repeat the experience of the stupid giant that was the Spanish Empire. Before thinking about colonizing the Moon or Mars, or future galactic wars with aliens, the Empire must fund democracy, fair public policy, environmental sustainability, and demographics without anomies.
The invisible government of the United States that used pentagonism to bring freedom and the market everywhere, must decide between economic elites and social control. The Hobbesian test for the coronavirus is only a small reminder of the fragility of order. How long can elites survive without the existence of the state and social order?
Technologies and liberalism are leading us to the same scenarios of the late nineteenth century. North America and the world are at risk of not resisting another century of war. The enemy is internal corruption and the Failed / Delinquential States that the imperialist elites support through cynical creole oligarchies. Modernity can no longer be hijacked by the geopolitical theology of the United States and the ambivalent Western culture. Either the utopia of positivism financed by the State and the Company or humanity begins from scratch.