{"id":182166,"date":"2019-01-15T14:47:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T14:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182166"},"modified":"2019-01-17T05:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T05:47:17","slug":"re-colonisation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182166","title":{"rendered":"Re-Colonisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Thierry Meyssan \u2013 Voltairenet.org Jan 15, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For Thierry Meyssan, one of the consequences of the successive ends of the bipolar and unipolar world is the re-establishment of colonial projects. One after the other, the French, Turkish and English have publicly declared the return of their colonial ambitions. We still need to know what form they will adopt in the 21st century.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_182161\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-British-Empire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182161\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-British-Empire.jpg\" alt=\"The British Empire on which the sun never sets\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-British-Empire.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-British-Empire-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-182161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The British Empire on which the sun never sets<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The French Empire<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For a decade we have been revealing the incongruity of the French desire to re-establish its authority over its old colonies. This was the logic behind the nomination by President Nicolas Sarkozy of Bernard Kouchner as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Kouchner replaced the French Revolutionary idea of \u00ab The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen \u00bb with the Anglo-Saxon notion of \u00ab Human Rights \u00bb\u00a0[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nb1\">1<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. Later, his friend President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande declared, during a Press conference on the fringes of the UN General Assembly, that it was time to re-establish a mandate over Syria. The great grand-nephew of ambassador Fran\u00e7ois George-Picot (of the Sykes-Picot agreement), ex-President Val\u00e9ry Giscard d\u2019Estaing, spoke of this even more clearly. This should help us better to understand the desire of President Emmanuel Macron to continue the war against Syria, without the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_182162\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-French-Empire-bestows-civilisation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182162\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-French-Empire-bestows-civilisation.jpg\" alt=\"The French Empire bestows civilisation\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-182162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The French Empire bestows civilisation<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There has always been a \u00ab colonial party \u00bb in France which crosses all political parties and acts as a lobby in the service of the wealthy class. Just as in every period when it becomes difficult for unscrupulous capitalists to crush the national work-force, the myth of colonial conquest resurfaces. If the \u00ab Yellow Vests \u00bb revolt, let us continue with the \u00ab exploitation of men by other men \u00bb on the backs of the Syrians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Long ago, this form of domination hid, according to the words of Jules Ferry \u2013 under whose auspices Fran\u00e7ois Hollande consecrated his son mandate\u00a0[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nb2\">2<\/a><\/strong><\/span>] \u2013 behind the duty of \u00ab bestowing civilisation \u00bb. Today, it aims at protecting the people whose elected leaders are qualified as \u00ab dictators \u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">France is not the only ancient colonial power to act in this way. Turkey quickly followed on.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Ottoman Empire<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Three months after the attempted assassination and aborted coup d\u2019\u00e9tat of July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan gave his inaugural speech from the university which bears his name (RTE\u00dc). He delivered a list of the ambitions of the Turkish Republic since its creation and those of his new r\u00e9gime\u00a0[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nb3\">3<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. Making an explicit reference to the \u00ab National Oath \u00bb (<em>Misak-\u0131 Mill\u00ee<\/em>)\u00a0[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nb4\">4<\/a><\/strong><\/span>], which was adopted by the Ottoman Parliament on 12 February 1920, he justified his irredentism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This Oath, which was the foundation of the passage of the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic, lays claim to the territory in the North-East of Greece (Western Thrace and the Dodecanese)\u00a0[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nb5\">5<\/a><\/strong><\/span>], all of Cyprus, the North of Syria (including Idlib, Aleppo and Al-Hasakah), and the North of Iraq (including Mosul).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Currently, the Empire in re-formation already occupies the North of Cyprus (the pseudo \u00ab Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus \u00bb), the North-West of Syria, and a small part of Iraq. For all these areas, where the Turkish language and currency apply, prefects (\u00ab <em>wali<\/em> \u00bb) have been nominated, and their offices are situated in the White Palace of Ankara.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L400xH300\/204637-3-4-54aaf.jpg\" alt=\"JPEG - 84.4 kb\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ottoman Empire is founded on the ignorance of its subjects. It has closed schools in the Arab world.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The British Empire<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As for the United Kingdom, it has been hesitating for two years about its future after the Brexit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A little after the arrival of Donald Trump at the White House, Prime Minister Theresa May went to the United States. Speaking to the representatives of the Republican Party, she proposed re-establishing the Anglo-Saxon leadership of the rest of the world\u00a0[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nb6\">6<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. But President Trump has been elected to liquidate these imperial dreams, not to share them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Disappointed, Theresa May then travelled to China in order to propose that President Xi Jinping share control of international exchanges. The City, she said, was ready to ensure the convertibility of Western currencies into Yuan\u00a0[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nb7\">7<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. But President Xi had not been elected to do business with an heiress of the power which had dismantled his country and imposed on the Chinese their opium war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Theresa May tried a third version with the Commonwealth\u00a0[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nb8\">8<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. Some of the ex-colonies of the Crown, like India, are today enjoying powerful growth and could become precious commercial partners. Symbolically, the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Charles, was raised to the Presidency of this association. Mrs. May announced that we are on our way to a Global Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In an interview with the <em>Sunday Telegraph<\/em> on 30 December 2018, the British Minister for Defence, Gavin Williamson, published his analysis of the situation. Since the fiasco of the Suez Canal in 1956, the United Kingdom has implemented a policy of decolonisation, and has withdrawn its troops from the rest of the world. Today, it conserves permanent military bases only in Gibraltar, Cyprus, Diego Garcia and the \u00ab Falklands \u00bb, to give these islands their imperial title. For the last 63 years, London has been oriented towards the European Union, invented by Winston Churchill, but to which, initially, he never imagined that England would belong. The Brexit \u00ab tears this policy to shreds \u00bb. From now on, \u00ab the United Kingdom is back as a global power \u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">London is planning to open two permanent military bases. The first will probably be in Asia (Singapore or Brunei), and the second in Latin America &#8211; most likely in Guyana, in order to participate in the new stage of the Rumsfeld-Cebrowski strategy of the destruction of those regions of the world which are not connected to globalisation. After the \u00ab African Great Lakes \u00bb, the \u00ab Greater Middle East \u00bb, it\u2019s time for the \u00ab Caribbean Basin \u00bb. The war will probably start with an invasion of Venezuela by Colombia (pro-US), Brazil (pro-Isra\u00ebli) and Guyana (pro-British).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Taking no notice of the smooth speechifying of the French, the English built an empire with the collaboration of multinational companies in the service of which it placed its army. They divided the world into two parts, which may be summed up as follows &#8211; the sovereign was the King of England (and therefore submitted to political tradition over here ) and the Emperor of India (in other words subjected to the private East India Company and unlimited autocrat over there).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Decolonisation was a corollary of the Cold War. It was forced on the States of Western Europe by the duopoly of the USA and the USSR. This held during the time of the unipolar world, but now meets no obstacles since the US withdrawal from the \u00ab Greater Middle East \u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is difficult to anticipate what form this future colonisation will take. Long ago, it was made possible by the huge differences in the level of education. But today ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/auteur29.html?lang=en\">Thierry Meyssan<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Translation<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/auteur125569.html?lang=en\">Pete Kimberley<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/IMG\/pdf\/Giscard_sur_la_Syrie-6.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"spip_logos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L200xH246\/204637-4-4-f34a3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this interview with &#8220;Le Parisien&#8221; on 27 September 2015, Val\u00e9ry Giscard d\u2019Estaing declared : \u00ab I\u2019m wondering about the possibility of creating a UNO mandate on Syria, for a duration of five years \u00bb. (PDF &#8211; 217.8 kb)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/IMG\/pdf\/The_Sunday_Telegraph_December_30_2018_p-10-14.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"spip_logos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L200xH321\/204637-5-4-2c4ae.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this interview with the Sunday Telegraph on 30 December 2018, British Minister for Defence Gavin Williamson, confirmed the end of the policy of decolonisation. (PDF &#8211; 486.1 kb)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nh1\">1<\/a>] The difference between the two were the main subject of debates during the French Revolution. Their incompatibility was particularly the theme of the eponymous book by Thomas Paine, the best seller during the Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nh2\">2<\/a>] \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article175247.html\">France According to Fran\u00e7ois Hollande<\/a>\u201d, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Michele Stoddard , <em>Voltaire Network<\/em>, 4 August 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nh3\">3<\/a>] \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article198369.html\">The Military Strategy of the New Turkey<\/a>\u201d, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Anoosha Boralessa, <em>Voltaire Network<\/em>, 14 October 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nh4\">4<\/a>] \u00ab <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article202833.html\">Serment national turc<\/a> \u00bb, <em>R\u00e9seau Voltaire<\/em>, 28 janvier 1920.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nh5\">5<\/a>] \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article199824.html\">Turkey announces its preparations for invading Greece<\/a>\u201d, Translation Anoosha Boralessa, <em>Voltaire Network<\/em>, 23 February 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nh6\">6<\/a>] \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article195102.html\">Theresa May addresses US Republican leaders<\/a>\u201d, by Theresa May, <em>Voltaire Network<\/em>, 27 January 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nh7\">7<\/a>] \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article192607.html\">The Brexit reshuffles world geopolitics<\/a>\u201d, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, <em>Voltaire Network<\/em>, 28 June 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html#nh8\">8<\/a>] \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article192722.html\">The new British Foreign Policy<\/a>\u201d, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, <em>Voltaire Network<\/em>, 4 July 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article204731.html\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One after the other, the French, Turkish and English have publicly declared the return 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