Quitting the Hunger Games: Engineering Intelligent Systems of Sustained Growth

While more than 30,000 people have been killed in the besieged Gaza strip, the ICC has just now considered issuing an arrest warrant for the settler state's erstwhile leader, Andalou Agency reports. And while some breathe a sigh of relief, others are indifferent. And rightly so. It takes the world far too long to acknowledge the attrocities of setter states. Currently there is no international countermechanism to address the disparity.

The World Bank just released a report which found that the income gap is widening between a major segment of poor and rich states in the world. That's happened before. So we must ask what mechanisms make that possible and how do "poor" states counter it?

And while we can all appeciate the juxtaposition, we would be remiss not to acknowledge the disengenuity of the concept itself. The actuality is that inflationary presure, monetary policy and interest rates are creating the massive divide. Not actual production, wage growth and quality of life in "rich states." It is a mirage.

These are not rich states today, they are inflated states. Currencies are inflated into oblivion to create the illusion. In fact, some of the most wealthiest countries are in precipitous decline in industry, education, wage growth, production and quality of life. So, what's widening the gap? Little magicians pushing decimal points and running printing presses.

But, the world has begun to catch up to the farce, as many states have begun to pivot to gold. Zimbabwe minted its first gold back currency in April. China shed a record 21 billion in US treasuries in Q4 2023, and the World Gold council reports that Gold has hit a meteoric purchase price of $2300/oz.. In fact, just recently, Senegal joined the growing worldwide trend to repatriate their gold from the USA, Trim Feed reports. They are among an increasing number of states who are recalling their assets rom the USA as the West's trust quotient plummets worldwide. And the loss trust stands with increasing validity, as new legislation could pave the way for the US to pocket Russian Assets held in Western banks as well as fresh sanctions on India, Russia, Zimbabwe and Iran among others.

In landmark legislation, the USA gave billions to the military industrial complex, Jurist News reports, sending weapons and military aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. But, the bill also had a year-long UNRWA funding prohibition, a ByteDance Tiktok ban and provisions for confiscating Russian assets, CBS News reports. As once trusted actors have begun to act with impunity, the world must reconsider their partners for progress.

It is just as well. The developing world's continual development without much to show for it, is more obvious now than it was even 10 years ago. It is a time when global south states will have to take a critical look at why there are no tangible improvements for the majority of their population? Why don't local businesses scale? Why is employment low? The developing world must take its own economic productivity into its own hands to move forward.

Just as China's chipmakers have innovated to overcome many of the Western tech sanctions, other atates will need to do the same in their respective areas. Attachment to the old system has kept many nations worldwide in a state of perpetual arrested development. The cycle of grow, stall, borrow has not yet produced the production required for adequate sustainability.

South Korea is currently considering a military iPhone ban for security reasons according to Yon Hap News Agency and Meta's WhatsApp may be ousted in India on encryption concerns FirstPost reports. It is par for the course, that if one participates in a predatory system, by necessity one is also vulnerable to it. States seeking greater security and sovereignity will need to associate with nations that appreciate and respect the same kind of self-determination and respect. Or limit the engagement, access and cooperation that predetory states have within their systems.

In a move reminicent to the Khalistani Row between Canada and Bharat both Germany and the USA have levied heavy accusations against Beijing after visits from senior state officials EuroNews Reports. India is poised to be the third largest economy in the world by volume FirstPost reports, the nation will need to reevaluate alliances with actors that openly seek to stife competitors and destroy economies. Sustaining growth may be a challenge for Bharat in its partnership with parasitic old order players that seek to undermine production, performance and growth dor the sake of the Rules Based Order.

The only way around the economic pitfalls and systemic barbs are to create anti-systems and mechanisms that are not vulnerable to the tempermental proclivities of Old Order's decline. States are already begun exploring alternative methods to bypass the trolls under the bridge that are seeking to thwart progress. It has required a new level of vigilance and responsibility from those wishing to survive the onslaught and establish themselves in the coming multipolar world. It will require local and regional players taking their rightful role in leadership and responsibility.

The Gaza Genocide is an excellent example of a region crisis that of necessity must be solved by regional players. These actors are far more invested in the stability of the region than those who simply pass by via trade routes and maritime pacts. While the ICJ case against The Gaza Massacre was masterfully executed by South Africa, its gravitas would have doubled and commanded authentic notice of the world, had it been lodged and waged by a local MENA regional actor.

Had Saudi Arabia unleashed a barbaric seige against Austria, killing and injuring thousands of women and children, you can imagine the reprisals. The full weight of the tiny Anglo-Saxon world would have descended onto the Emerati state, along with aid and manpower from its settler states in Asia and the Americas.

The world must take its own humanity and development seriously. And that development must go beyond roads and infrastructure to human capital and the skills marketplace. Reliance on systems meant to disempower from the imperial age only lead to massacres, lopsided arrangements, and economic stagnation loops. It is not merely enough to be self-reliant but self-motivated to pursue new markets, partners and ventures that push the nation ahead regardless of threat. It will be necessary to reject military pursuits that do not create or protect regional growth and partners. The passivity of the past centuries will need to be shed along with the naivety that fully trusts those with a history of barbarity, genocide and regime change.

Once again West Africa has fallen prey to external promises from the usual suspects. This time, instead of predatory hedge funds promising steady electricity, it is unscrupulous mining companies exploiting resources, personnel and SMEs.

Ghana Miners have been embroiled in a conflict with the UK Mining company Future Global Resources, Mining News reports. The company refuses to pay local workers and vendors who provided services. The British company has been squating on a gold mine while production has slowed to a crawl. Time will tell if Ghana values its business environment, production, people and industry enough to demand justice for those affected. It is the only way to legitimize the market and make it a viable place for growth for domestic and international business.

Unfortunately, the trust quotient is broken, and it will be up to individual states to see that fair practices make it possible for workers to earn and SMEs to thrive and hire by receiving renumeration for their service. The Wild, Wild West, colonial mentality of duplicity, corruption and graft must be curbed in the global south to maintain consistent growth in all areas--and thwir needs to be systems for that. Multinationals must not become impervious to regulations, while SMEs struggle. When SMEs lose, populations struggle, labor fails. Systems must be available to ensure that business works and economies have the tools to grow.

The stagnation loop of the developing world is not a fluke. It is a carefuly engineered system that requires buy-in from the exploited and the exploiters. Without the system of engineered disparity, developing nations would moving into the age of modernity. But, disparity is necessary to create desperation and a Hunger Games mentality within regions and states. It allows "rich states," like UK to offer Botswana a "people-for-pay" scheme that would essentially traffic vulnerable humans seeking assylum to a secondary buyer nations. The international ramifications of such, is immense; and the domestic fallout could upend society and increase destabilization. Particularly in regions already rife with rebel groups, child soldiers, and paramilitary insurgencies, such assylees are vulnerable to conscription and abuse.

Such a proposal represents a modern-day moment of clarity on how the transatlantic slave trade got underway in some quadrants. Particularly with the aiding and abetting of unscrupulous money-hungry local goups who were too short-sighted to see the longterm economic and social devestation such deals would inflict on their regions. Africa is still reeling from a slavery past that led to wholesale colonialism. Once again, Africa is offered the same morbid opportunity sully itself with the excesses of empire.

The interlocking system of dead aid, military expenditure, debt and threat works to destabilize economies and societies that rely heavily upon them. Ukraine offers a case study in dependency as the state is entirely dependent on its war hawk benefactors. It has gradually deteriorated since 2014 joining a growing list of Eastern European states that chose the EU over steady real growth with Russia as a partner. Cheap fiat is easy to print, but realtime growth, quality of life and productivity tajes time wuth time tested partners.

Without internal systems that mitigate, many growing states around the world are left naked to the pivots that send shockwaves into their society. And those that rely entirely upon external actors and mechanisms often face the greatest and harshest losses when there is upheaval or change.

This underscores the deals that West Asian groups have forged with intelopers that have created or exacerbated disunity and conflict in the region. From the injection of Philipino mercenaries in Afghanistan to the insurgencies in Pakistan and Syria, West Asia has a unique opportunity to evaluate the past and create new dynamics. The systems that allow easy entry and easy manipulation must be addressed. States must reevaluate the economic, political and social systems that underpin the health of their state and direct how they interact in the wider world. Real sustainable growth cannot happen without sealing cracks and strengthening pregnable contingencies. This requires forethought and a plan.

Systems must be based on solid values and engineered with mechanisms that safegaurd the state, population and future from malicious actors leveraging larger systems against them. This is a massive point, because states are often left naked to such capitulations because there is not forethought or planning to create failsafe measures to mitigate loss, minimize risk and avert exposure to such capitulations.

In short, states must become more savvy to exercise a greater level of forethought about how to protect assets, population, economy and interests beyond the blind trust they have invested into the Rules Based Order that has betrayed them. Instead they must act with calculation and foresight to design counter systems that possess the capacity to contravene covert or overt attemps to flatten their rise.

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