Tariffs and regional blocs
U.S. TARIFFS PROMPT NATIONS TO INTENSIFY REGIONAL INTEGRATION
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President Donald Trump’s pursuit of bilateral trade agreements with individual nations is a positive step away from the multilateral “free trade” of chaotic, open-border globalism.
But the Trump tariff policy would have been much more effective decades ago, before any of today’s regional trade blocs, led by the European Union, were able to gain a footing and develop.
So now, Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are counterintuitively prompting many nations to intensify efforts to integrate into their respective regional blocs, which globalists have been developing for decades around the world. Read more….
‘You’re going to see regional orders spring up’
‘BECAUSE IT’S SO HARD TO CREATE A WORLD ORDER’
“I think you’re going to see the evolution of regional organizations, and that regional – because it’s so hard to create a world order – I think you’re going to see regional orders spring up. And then you would have links between regional orders. But they will be very much guided by economic interests, social interests and also security interests….”
Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council
Comments at the World Government Summit, March 29, 2022
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SIX FORMER CIA DIRECTORS ARE ON THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
THE GREAT MISDIRECTION:
Multipolar World Order and Revelation’s ‘Ten Kings’
Where on earth could they be?
PURSUIT OF REGIONAL BLOCS NOT ‘THEORY’ – IT’S FACTUAL REALITY
By Tim Porter, CircumspectNews.com
AI surveillance, political cyber-censorship, central bank digital currencies, and social credit systems continue to be developed by governments. Wars, crises, plandemics and staged color revolutions could conceivably coalesce these technologies into a dystopian future under a global cyber-government, such as that described in the Bible’s Book of Revelation.
But Revelation’s narrative does not begin with a monolithic world government. As technologically feasible as Revelation’s “mark of the beast” narrative has become, wouldn’t the ten kingdoms that precede it be materializing as well? Could they be developing at this very moment? The supposed demise of globalization provides a clue…. Read more…
IMF chief: Countries must ‘make the best’ of new multipolar world
ACCELERATING REGIONALIZATION
AFP | France 24, April 17, 2025 – Countries have no choice but to “make the best” of the fragmentation of the global economy by boosting ties with regional and like-minded countries, the head of the International Monetary Fund said in an interview Thursday.
“Yes, (it’s) much better for the world to get one system of rules, much better, and hopefully we will retain the basic principles of this common system for the future,” IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told AFP.
“But we are in a multipolar world,” she said…. “And in this environment, it is likely to continue, maybe even accelerate, so we will see more bilateral and plurilateral agreements,” she said, pointing to places like southeast and central Asia, and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
Regional ‘orders’ promoted as incremental step toward world order
MORE QUOTES FROM GLOBALISTS PRESCRIBING REGIONAL BLOCS
Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Klaus Schwab, others … even Vladimir Putin: “These are the integration bricks….” Read more…
Merging Nations into Regions:
Key Part of ‘Great Reset’
TheNewAmerican.com – A key part of the Great Reset is to further undermine national sovereignty by strengthening emerging regional governments modeled on the European Union, warns The New American magazine’s Alex Newman in this episode of Behind The Deep State.
In fact, World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab openly discusses this in his book on the Great Reset. While “globalization” may be on pause temporarily, regionalization will accelerate under the guise of “free trade” deals.
But it is not a new strategy by Deep State conspirators. Henry Kissinger and numerous other Deep State strategists have made that clear.
Even North America is in the crosshairs for more regional integration.
NORTH AMERICA and
‘THE ART OF THE DEAL’:
Trump’s Canada ‘joke’ sparks Hegelian dialectic toward North American ‘economic union’
KEVIN O’LEARY: DISTINGUISH BETWEEN TRUMP NOISE, SIGNAL
‘NOBODY SAID YOU HAVE TO SELL YOUR SOVEREIGNTY, BUT MANY CANADIANS ARE INTERESTED IN EXPLORING THE ECONOMIC UNION’
COMMON CURRENCY, PASSPORT, TARIFFS, DEFENSE
By Tim Porter, CircumspectNews.com
Canadian investor Kevin O’Leary, also a bombastic deal negotiator of Shark Tank fame, recently visited President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago. He insists that Trump’s joke about Canada statehood is merely bombastic noise to begin a dialogue, even as he signals that his real objective — to which O’Leary is in agreement — is an “economic union” of the two nations that would resemble the development of the European Union.
The possibility that O’Leary is right about Trump’s real objective being “only” economic union should prompt consternation among Trump’s nationalist MAGA supporters. But Trump has orchestrated this entire sequence of comments and perceptions across two nations, and it certainly has been a master class in misdirection…..…Read more…
AN OPEN QUESTION:
Open borders in the Middle East?
•‘MIDDLE EAST UNION’•‘FREE TRADE’•‘UNWALLED VILLAGES’
By Tim Porter, CircumspectNews.com
Israel’s war against Hamas has reminded the entire world that it is in agreement on at least one point: The Middle East remains a powder keg. Factions within factions have been in conflict for millennia.
Despite that camel in the room, some have had the audacity to envision the unthinkable, as outlined by Ed Husain in his 2014 Financial Times op-ed, entitled, The EU Offers a Model for Unifying the Middle East. Re-posted by the prominent globalist think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, Husain’s op-ed opened with this premise:
But how on earth do globalists think they can pull off an open-border region-building project in the Middle East, where the original Tower of Babel fragmented into more ancient hatreds that many project will not end until Armageddon?
Read more…
‘…SO THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PARTLY STRONG, AND PARTLY BROKEN …. THEY SHALL NOT CLEAVE ONE TO ANOTHER’….Daniel 2:42-43
IMF foresees globalism’s ‘fragmentation’ into regional blocs with own regulatory standards, reserve currencies
“A serious risk to the medium-term outlook is that the war in Ukraine will contribute to fragmentation of the world economy into geopolitical blocs with distinct technology standards, cross-border payment systems, and reserve currencies.”
The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank (below) and Henry Kissinger all have presented globalism’s “fragmentation” scenario in a dire tone, masking the fact that such a period of conflict between regional blocs has always been declared by globalists as their alternative, incremental option to develop each region toward their objective of a world-order federation of regional blocs.
Open and download the IMF’s full report (PDF) here: World Economic Outlook Update, July 2022
THE ‘NEW MERCANTILISM’ –
PROTECTIONIST REGIONAL BLOCS:
World Bank Warns Against Trade Protectionism Amid Inflation
TRADE ‘THAT BREAKS DOWN INTO REGIONAL BLOCS OR PROTECTIONIST BLOCS, THAT’S A CONCERN’
UrdoPoint (Pakistan), April 10, 2023 – World Bank Group President David Malpass warned on Monday against protectionist trading blocs as the world contends with inflation.
“Trade is vital to productivity within the world … to the extent that that breaks down into regional blocks or protectionist blocs, that’s a concern and right now, that’s the direction of travel for the world,” Malpass said…
Klaus Schwab’s ‘Great Reset’ includes region building
World Economic Forum’s transhumanist founder promotes ‘regionalization’ as globalism’s post-COVID compromise with nationalism
Regional blocs, regional supply chains would be an “in-between solution….a new watered-down version” of globalization
By Tim Porter
Klaus Schwab had made it clear in a 2016 televised interview. Asked when the world would see chips implanted in humans, Schwab replied, “Certainly in the next ten years. At first we will implant them in our clothes, and then we could imagine that we will implant them in our brains or in our skin. And in the end, maybe, there will be a direct communication between our brain and the digital world. What we see is a kind of fusion of the physical, digital and biological world.”
Public reaction to these audacious “in your face” ideas, by comparison, may appear to have buried some of Schwab’s other topics like “regionalization” into the obscure pages of his Great Reset. But regionalization should merit the audacious label in its own right, as its establishment would mark an unprecedented era in modern history, rendering national sovereignty obsolete.…Read more…
‘Plandemic’ Pretext Fits Future Revelation Narrative
Creating a New World Order Out of Regional Orders
By Alex Newman, The New American, Nov 5, 2018 – The Deep State’s globalist plan for what insiders refer to as the “New World Order” — basically, a global government controlled by themselves — begins with submerging the sovereignty of nation-states into regional “orders.” These are better understood as regional governments built using “free trade” deals as the foundation, with the European Union serving as the premier example. How do we know this is the plan? Because top Deep State globalists have said so publicly and repeatedly, and because that is the exact strategy being pursued openly….
EU GLOBAL POLICY ‘BASED MAINLY’ ON SUPPORTING, ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENT OF OTHER REGIONAL BLOCS
EU’s Mogherini: EU can pivot global network of regional blocs to build New Global Order
‘In this world, walls are made to be torn down’
“Our cooperation with our friends and partners around the world is based mainly on this: in trying to support and encourage regional integration and partnerships. That is true in the Arab world and the Middle East, that is true for Africa with the African Union…it is true in Asia with the ASEAN, or in Latin America with CELAC.
The European Union can pivot a global network of regional alliances. A New Global Order can benefit immensely from improved regional cooperation, in terms of security and in terms of narrative, on building this multilateral New Global Order.”
Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice President of the European Commission, The Hague, December 8, 2015
‘WE WILL INVEST IN REGIONAL ORDERS’
European Union’s official Global Strategy: Region-Building
Post-Brexit, the EU doubles down, vows to support, ‘invest in regional orders’ and ‘regional governance’ for North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and other regional blocs
By Tim Porter, CircumspectNews.com
Surely, Europa is riding this beast. As if the abundant corroborating evidence compiled over decades of globalist “region-building” schemes were not enough to convince the American public of this threat to national sovereignty, along comes the European Union to give a rare, official confirmation of its intent.
And as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to protect America’s borders and national security, he will have to guard against a collusion of Washington and EU elitists bent on subverting his efforts.
The European Union Global Strategy document was officially released on June 28, 2016, just five days after the June 23 Brexit vote to leave the EU was passed by the British population.….Read more….
The Brussels Effect: How the EU Rules the World
TLDR News, Jun 26, 2022 – The EU is unique in its ability to unilaterally transform global markets, be it through its ability to set the standards in competition policy, food safety or the protection of data privacy. The EU rules the world through regulation, otherwise known as the Brussels effect.
DACA: Real ‘dreamers’ are ‘free trade’ utopians using children as pawns
‘Free flow of goods, services, and people’ would include access for education
By Tim Porter – A concept that today is commonly referred to as “free trade” has become a key component of this age-old utopian delusion. Many advocates of this concept have bought into the deception that its “free flow of goods, services and people” implies a minimizing of government regulation upon the flow of commerce across national borders, but just the opposite is true.….Read more
Brexit and the globalist response
By Tim Porter, CircumspectNews.com – Brexit, the British exit from the European Union, is a major breakthrough for the independence of nations. Freedom lovers all over the world have been hoping for such a watershed event to encourage other national populations to reclaim their sovereignty and independence from globalist multilateralism. However, today’s Brits will have to be diligent to guard against the deception that is coming next….
Trump warns against ‘false song of globalism’
‘THE NATION-STATE REMAINS THE TRUE FOUNDATION OF HAPPINESS AND HARMONY’
Denounces NAFTA, ‘international unions’ jeopardizing U.S. independence
The Hill, Arpil 27, 2016 – “We will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism. The nation-state remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony.
“I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down. And under my administration, we will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs.”
The list of “international unions” to which Trump refers includes more than just the more commonly known United Nations, World Trade Organization, and NATO, all of which have the United States as the chief sustaining member.
It also includes the various continental, regional blocs, such as the European Union, African Union, and Eurasian Union. All of these organized blocs of nations are declared to be authorized and under the auspices of the UN, an organization largely underwritten by American taxpayers.
Like NAFTA (consisting of North American Free Trade nations Canada, U.S. and Mexico), all of these blocs originated as economic trade blocs. However, officials from each have publicly declared the desire for their bloc to become a geopolitical jurisdiction, so that each bloc would integrate into a federal union of nations, using the EU’s incremental approach as the model.
Article by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin:
‘A new integration project for Eurasia’
By Vladimir Putin – Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union, Oct 10, 2011 – ….It took Europe 40 years to move from the European Coal and Steel Community to the full European Union. The establishment of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space is proceeding at a much faster pace because we could draw on the experience of the EU and other regional associations….
We plan to go beyond that, and set ourselves an ambitious goal of reaching a higher level of integration – a Eurasian Union….
We believe that a solution might be found in devising common approaches from the bottom up, first within the existing regional institutions, such as the EU, NAFTA, APEC, ASEAN inter alia, before reaching an agreement in a dialogue between them. These are the integration bricks that can be used to build a more sustainable global economy.
