“The New World Dis-Order”

The End of an Post WWII and Cold War Era, And The Rise of “The New World Dis-Order”.

Moses Solemon

A new world is shaping quickly and progressively, where chaos and uncertainty is the new norm. Stability in politics, business, and lifestyle is out. The right description of the condition is not the word “DYNAMIC”. It is the word “Chaos” or “Dis-Order”.

In the years following the Second World War there was rapid economic growth, associated with political and socio-economic stability. Such favourable conditions led to the emergence of the social class of the techno-crat and the birth of the American Dream. Those were the glorious 1950’s and 1960’s. No such era in the Western World anymore. Europe and Japan are aging and the US is going through a huge phase of social and economic transformation. Even China is expected to suffer heavily from the slow economic growth in the next five to seven years.

The new generation of Americans is not as educated and wealthy as their parents or grandparents. Today, they enjoy less privileges and has to work longer hours with lesser pay and reduced value of money.

Europeans are facing demographic shift towards older age and mixed-culture social fabric. There is no pure cultural identity in any of the major European or American cities today. They all have become big boiling melting pots and mainly dominated by immigrants from Asia and Africa. Large Indian and Chinese outflow have coloured the world brown and yellow. Diversity was in many ways more than good and less than evil.

A handsome percentage of the high-end skills in the silicon-valley comes from Asia with wealth of mathematics and software programming. One in ten doctors in the US comes from India. SEVERAL Top CEOs in banks and corporate America are Asians who brought capital wealth in addition to know-how and expertise. It was not all due economic globalization as much as it was part of the resilient immigration policies in the Western World. Another motivation was the need for highly educated and qualified workforce.

The 2008 crisis and the unneeded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has weekend the US power and appetite to engage actively in world affairs. On the contrary, the US reverted to internal isolation to heal its wounds leaving the resulting vacuum to be filled by other ambitious force. The Russian flexed their muscles in Eastern Europe while the Chinese expanded in the Pacific south and east.

Moreover, the US administration under US President Barak Obama engaged in a secret warfare against corruption in the financial system. A wild hunt began to catch those engaged in fixing LIBOR, FOREX, and Commodity Pricing. Another war erupted against those engaged in money laundering. It was not all about terrorism as much as it was against corruption in the system that allowed persons and groups to take advantage and create global chaos.

However, by the time the US Presidency was managing its war on financial corruption, the world had already slipped into an irreversible mode of political trend-shifting. Such forces were beyond normal measure of containment or response. The confrontation has turned into a slow and soft strategy and tactic games, where long-term and painful stalemate and sacrifice is inevitable.

The end of Sykes-Picot Agreement in the Middle East after one hundred years of its signing in 2016, dictated a new form of division and border line design. The US was not caught off-guard in this. However, it is accused of lack of interest and neglect by its best allies in the region. It is now accused of change of hearts to favour Iran over GCC Arab countries. Such alarming accusations against President Obama were sounded by Israel also. And the truth is that the US in the next decade will not play an active role in the Middle East affairs. And less more in the foreseeable future.

The US will focus more on its own internal affairs, and most importantly “the economy” and the “climate change”. Europe will potentially shift gear to advance and fill the vacuum in the Middle East. However, nothing much that Europe can do versus Russia and China rather collaborate than confront.

The new generation living or born today, will witness a completely different era and shall view a perplexed world division and disunity. Those are merciless times that requires super skills of survival and supreme spontaneous smart thinking. Fraction of a time span would possibly be the only difference between win or lose in any business, technology, or politics fight.

Welcome to the New World of Dis-Order.