From: enometh@meer.net   
      
   * JTEM <10m0r79$2qrun$1@dont-email.me> :   
   Wrote on Wed, 4 Feb 2026 20:19:37 -0500:   
      
   > We're not. Certainly not officially.   
      
   	"Globalisation is usually described as the expansion of free   
   	trade of goods and services. That is an incomplete   
   	description. Globalisation is a political system that defined   
   	how governments ran markets and societies, and how they engaged   
   	with each other and with networked global institutions that they   
   	had established. It came to be associated with liberalism,   
   	democracy, and global cooperation. That system is now over.   
      
   	"The world economy was global long before it was liberal. Early   
   	globalisation was built on force. Wealth accumulation in the   
   	industrialised north was on the backs of domestic resource   
   	exploitation and overseas resource extraction. Trade was   
   	lopsided, not free.   
      
   	"Towards the middle of the 20th century, as the rest of the   
   	world found its voice and war had ravaged the industrialised   
   	countries, it was time for a new order. sovereignty spread   
   	faster than democracy. global institutions were birthed to offer   
   	a normative framework to manage international affairs. even when   
   	unilateral power was exercised, it was couched as a pursuit of   
   	democracy, regional stability, or humanitarian compassion."   
      
   	"The legitimacy of the system depended on that restraint. That   
   	restraint has now been abandoned openly"   
      
   	 -- https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/is-india-prepared-fo   
   -the-end-of-globalisation/article70566036.ece   
      
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