An Authoritarian Axis Is Gaining Momentum Across the World.
Nha Trang, Vietnam, December 31st, 2024.
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Slowly but steadily, the world’s authoritarian and dictatorial forces keep closing ranks. They are not yet officially united in the sense that NATO is intended to be, but they are already exchanging signs of sympathy and approval between them, like the proto-authoritarian President of Argentina, Javier Milei, being the first foreign leader to visit Donald Trump at Mar a Lago after the US elections (see here)

The world is a lot smaller today than it was in the late 1930s, when the nefarious tripartite Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis responsible for WWII was first formed (see here), namely because of today’s much faster means of communication and the wide range of countries and people whose attention can be captured in a matter of seconds.

These days, information flows so easily across countries and continents that national politics are slowly but steadily becoming an international playing field, as electoral processes are increasingly vulnerable to the influence of foreign actors.

A number of world leaders of the authoritarian kind have recently been gaining control over their countries and at the head of the pack is none other than the President-elect of the United States, a convicted criminal, sexual-offender, insurrectionist, amoral individual.

Given its enormous military, financial, and cultural power, if the American government were to become full-fledged authoritarian, as the president-elect seems to want, the United States could become the most destabilizing force in the Western World and the most serious threat against all existing Democratic systems of government.

Whatever happens in America, be it good or bad, usually has an impact on the rest of the world. The shameless undemocratic 2010 Supreme Court’s Decision in Favor of Citizens United, whereby money is now by law considered “free speech” (see here), allows big capital to invest as much as they want in support of the candidates of their choice.

Such American law has been acquiring broad application across international borders, so that big capital now feels free to interfere in the general elections of some countries where there is considerable foreign investments.

Just consider the recent case of that “One-Man Sovereign State” named Elon Musk, who is considered by some retired US Army officials as a national security risk (see here), who not only partially bought the Presidency for Donald Trump in these past elections, but is now openly advocating for the hard-right political party AfD in Germany (see here).

With pro-authoritarian big capital now having such high level of mobility and influence across borders, how long before pro-Democracy candidates in Europe and elsewhere start systematically losing elections to internationally-financed pro-authoritarian candidates?

For the moment, Hungary, India, Argentina, El Salvador, Italy, Belarus, Nicaragua, Venezuela, North Korea, Russia, China, and most recently Georgia and the United States, are all, or will all very soon be, under the control of different levels of authoritarian or dictatorial regimes, not to mention a number of African and Asian countries that already have authoritarian governments.

As of today, however, there is no evidence of any specific coordination of tactics between them. But that stands to change radically once Donald Trump is sworn-in as the first-ever convicted-criminal, sexual-offender, insurrectionist President in the history of the United States.

With the virtually unlimited resources of the first-ever prospective-trillionaire authoritarian individual standing by Trump’s side and with the Democracies of the world increasingly powerless to restrain the influence of foreign capital on their elections, the world authoritarian axis that today is merely a draft of an idea could end up becoming a reality just a few years down the line.

Donald Trump probably won’t live long enough to one day be anointed Cesar of such possible worldwide authoritarian empire, but a younger member of the Maga movement just might.

Democracy is currently in retreat across the world and in its place an Axis of authoritarian regimes keeps gaining momentum. Is there anything you intend to do about it?

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