Halloween is over and now comes the U.S. presidential election. Recent elections in Germany, France, Hungary, Slovakia, Georgia and today in Moldova have delivered a thunderous message, that anyone associated with the de-industrialization and “permanent war” policies of the West is to be treated rudely by the electorate. Whatever would be running a “collective Kamala” administration, it smells of the same brand, loyal to putting financial derivative bubbles first and subjects of proxy wars last.
What does it say about an election when the most positive quality of a candidate is that he is a wild man and, therefore, more difficult for the oligarchs to manage?
As wild developments in the United States are almost inevitable in the days and weeks ahead, attention should be paid to the calm hand being extended to the U.S. and Europe by the BRICS. As Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov explained on Nov. 2 to TV BRICS, besides the 13 new partner nations of the BRICS, the new organization will defend their economies from the weaponization of the dollar, they will make arrangements to prioritize industry and trade over financial usury and destructive financial games, but they are not trying to punish or bring down the West. Instead, they offer to make the IMF, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization avoid bankruptcy and ruin, by reinvigorating them with the massive and long-term economic development projects involved in properly developing Africa, Asia and Ibero-America.
Nationalists such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, even Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic, veer towards a nationalism that actually means to have their nation preserved. And that means, without burying different approaches that they may have with Russia or China—and they do have their differences—they mean to trade and work with both. When the U.S. election concludes Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico and Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević were invited by China’s Premier Li Qiang to attend the opening ceremony and other events in Shanghai’s China International Import Expo (CIIE). Those two are among the honored guest national leaders at the Nov. 5-10 seventh CIIE, the annual trade fair, that serves as a platform for countries and regions to display their development achievements. It is anticipated that 152 countries, regions and international organizations will participate.
This outbreak of “intelligent nationalism” in Central Europe is anathema to the EU bureaucrats in Brussels, to the London-Washington axis weaponizing the dollar and running proxy wars, but it is an outbreak of sanity. They despise the thought of this outbreak spreading to the U.S., so they have to bolt down the hatches for their “collective Kamala Harris” option. The question is whether Americans, in the land of the original “intelligent nationalism,” can make America good again.
Donald Trump is certainly aware that countries around the world are taking moves to de-link from the dollar; however, he has, so far, failed the test of “intelligent nationalism” and rather pontificated on how he can threaten and cajole countries to stick with the dollar, or else. He is certainly aware that the Biden administration’s fantasy of pitting China and Russia against each other has done exactly the opposite. However, on Nov. 1, Trump promised to succeed in pitting the two against each other: “We united them because of the oil. Biden united them. It’s a shame. I’m going to have to un-unite them, and I think I can do that too.” He cited one of his professors at the Wharton Finance Department telling him that “the one thing you never want to happen is Russia and China uniting.”
It is time to put the “intelligent” back into nationalism, and that begins with countering the expected chaos in the U.S. and Europe with relentless honesty. Should you be fortunate enough to vote in the State of New York or in its 15th CD in the Bronx, you have a vote that works—there are intelligent nationalists there, U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare and Congressional candidate Jose Vega. They know how to make America good again. Otherwise, your vote doesn’t work. You must join their fight to make your neighbors intelligent and happy, and the historic summit of the BRICS is the most successful “American” development of recent times.
