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Adam Azim | Director Public Opinions| Washington DC
20th December 2016
There are essentially six major powers: The United States, Britain, China, Russia, The European Union, and the Muslim World. Henry Kissinger considered India and Japan to be part of a constellation of six major powers, but some (including myself) would respectfully disagree given that India and Japan have exhibited major cultural obstacles to free trade. The Economist is correct in seeing politics and business as two sides of the same coin, given that politics is the means to facilitating all types of businesses. Marx even considered law and medicine to be businesses, given that the bourgeoise has overtaken the fields of law and medicine.
Nevertheless, by some estimates, Russia is considered to be the most educated nation in the entire world, with the second-most educated nation being North Korea, third is Japan, fourth is Canada, and the fifth is the United States. The United States is behind Russia in standards of education, and that demonstrates the balance between Russia, a weaker nation in pure power terms, and the United States, which is obviously the stronger power in pure power terms.
Interestingly, the United Kingdom does not make it to the top five in terms of education, despite hosting Cambridge and Oxford. And the main reason for poorer standards of British education is a downturn in the amount of history and philosophy taught in the U.K. education system. Not many British students know about Sir Bertrand Russell or the history of British colonialism in Jamaica. The United Kingdom, after all, has an incredibly dark colonial history beginning with the slave trade, then its intrusions into Iran and Afghanistan which ended up with the British dividing the Khorassan region of Iran and Afghanistan. Then, the British ended up dividing Pashtun lands through the unjust imposition of what is known as the Durand line. The Durand line came before the infamous “Sykes-Picot” arrangement that Britain took part in at the end of World War I. Then, after World War II, the British divided the Indian subcontinent which led to the deaths of millions of innocent people, and then for more than two decades, the British used the United States as a tool to suppress the will of the people in Iran until the people rose and kicked the British out of Iran in 1979. After Iran’s revolution, Britain elected Thatcher and the result was a failed attempt by the British to take back Iran, which in turn led to the rise of Britain’s modern-day Labour party that is now led by an anti-establishment figure by the name of Jeremy Corbyn, the British equivalent of America’s Bernie Sanders.
While the world sought less borders, Britain wanted more borders to keep nations split not only from within, but also to keep disparate nations separate from one another in order to weaken the world vis-a-vis Britain. Because of its dark past, Britain feared that the world would one day unite to kick its ass per se. Less borders and friendly relations between different people lead to less tensions because people are then able to move to their ideal location and learn from one another. Israel waged an independence movement against Britain in the 1920s and it was a successful one. The United States, led by a maverick and rogue general by the name of George Washington and an outlaw by the name of Thomas Jefferson kicked the British out of America in the 1780’s. The British commonwealth is probably the strictest in its enforcement of false borders between humanity, and they have gotten even more nefarious after Brexit, given the example of Pakistan and its unjust enforcement of the Durand Line. In a globalized world, borders no longer exist. They are essentially imagined, given the rise of technology and the internet. The “North American Idea” of Robert Pastor was the stepping stone for a borderless Western Hemisphere. One adverse effect of borders is that they prevent a human being from realizing their full global identity and thus borders serve as a nuisance in a world where globalization is bound to take place, according to Kant.
Thus, trade, commerce, and the four freedoms that characterize the European Union (freedom of the movement of goods, services, people, and capital) are essentially the antidote to the “schumpeter’s gale” that has already taken place all over the world. The United States must do what Japan refused to do, which is open its market to foreign capital. Because of Japan’s obstinance in terms of trade and commerce, the revocation of the TPP by the Trump team was absolutely fair and smart. The United States, as the world’s leading power, has a responsibility to render the entire world as a “common market” undergirded by the free movement of goods, services, people, and capital the way the European Union has done regionally. For one, McDonald’s move to Amsterdam will enable two things: increased disposable income for the working class of Dutch society who are not natives, as well as increased economic security for the native Dutch population, which will in turn enable the stimulation of the Dutch economy. Marco Polo made the world look like a global market. Now, it is time to actually create the global market.
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