The USA and the UK or the UK and the USA for at least three centuries and always through the historical continuity between Pax Britannica and Pax Americana (after the end of the Second World War (WWII) and so far,) had succeeded in making an international order to their own measures. But the current governments of both the United States and the United Kingdom are reviewing fundamental constants of the international system that their countries have decisively and in their benefit formed.
After the end of the WWII, the world Western system was managed by international institutions and rules respectively, e.g. Bretton Woods, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, NATO, World Trade Organization, etc. which created and formed by USA and UK. The advanced bastions of the American capitalist system Japan and Germany main opponents of the US and Britain during the WWII were rebuilt and reconstructed by American funds.
The Liberal world’s victory over Communism was achieved in co-operation between the USA and the UK, thereby sealing the global prevalence of liberal capitalism. The liberalisation of world trade and capital and foreign exchange markets equivalently were Anglo-Saxon achievements.
The creation of the EU as well as historic EU options such as the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (18 April 1951), Treaties of Rome: EEC and Euratom treaties (25 March 1957), EU enlargement to Eastern Europe, the Treaty of Lisbon (13 December 2007), the Schengen Agreement (14 June 2007) etc. it was the UK’s main plan, which at the same time had excluded-as an EU member-itself both in its participation in the euro-common currency and in the implementation of Schengen Agreement.
The English language became a universal language while in combination with the Anglo-Saxon values and culture that together constitute the global lingua Franca create what is called soft power and is the most valuable weapon of international excellence.
But today both the US government and the UK government have received “defensive” positions (isolationist positions) from the international system that these two countries have formed for their benefit. More specifically, NATO is being undermined while its members are divided (for more information about this issue please read analysis titled “The Split of NATO members”).
International multilateral treaties (from the global climate to the nuclear INF Convention) are abandoned by the United States but also gradually from the UK, which is leaving the EU, disregarding the geopolitical and economic situation in which the EU is its vital space for UK in which it could prosper by claiming with the US world domination.
At the same time, the UK government’s indifference to the Brexit and its consequences (possible internal secession of Scotland from the UK and its stay in the EU) coincides with the paralytic of the World Trade Organisation, which has been caused by US President Donald Trump.
The non-possibility of judicial settlement of trade disputes between the 165 members of the WTO creates jungle conditions, leaving the weak countries defenseless against the powerful countries, while disintegrating the internal institutions and rules that prevailed worldwide.
In this way, the strong countries are experiencing the illusion of power, ignoring that state power without the existence of a collective system will sooner or later result in disarray and chaos that the powerful countries will have to clean up but at a much higher cost.
Today the prosperous societies of the West are faced with serious challenges such as security issues, climate change, global economic downturn, etc. Therefore, they should always remember that in the geopolitical and economic zero-sum game of the Game Theory it ends up for everyone to be negative in the long run just the difference is that they don’t all lose to the same degree.
