What are the rules of the game in the modern world?
Author: Abdul Naser Noorzad, security and geopolitics researcher, especially for Sangar
It is no secret to anyone that militarism and the desire to get rich and stay rich is the characteristic of today's capitalist world. I will not quote the ostensibly anti-capitalist thinkers, because there are many doubts about the nature of such people. Therefore, what I am writing in this article are experiences that we witness every day, but we do not pay attention to it.
But what is evident is that the world's greatest power (the United States of America) produces 65% of the world's knowledge. It is produced, it has more than 800 military bases around the world, especially in strategic areas, it leads powerful military alliances like NATO, it has rich allies from the world of 1.6 billion Islamic worlds, and it uses extremism as a tool. used it effectively to realize its strategic goals, since the fall of the Soviet Union and even before that, in the phase after the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, it has played a role in more than 100 bloody wars, engineering political systems intelligence, has overthrown and placed its puppets in it, its gross domestic product is more than 23 trillion dollars, it has 9 out of 11 strategic waterways, staggering wealth from the mines of rich countries in terms of the following resources but it is involved in political instability, it has caused a crisis in three key areas of wealth production, such as the Persian Gulf, Africa and Latin America, in order to exploit it politically and economically, it is trying to be under the influence of China, Russia and Iran and smooth the geography of terror so that, following it, he can, by means of the strategy of involving the enemy in his own land, create the ground for creating obstacles against China's expansionist hegemonic ambitions in East Asia, Russia's expansionist strategy in Europe, and Iran's activist strategy in favor the Middle East. This strategy is originally designed based on the remote rebalancing doctrine. The doctrine of rebalancing basically refers to the combination of actions that, in terms of nature, performance and thought, concentrate all the embodied power of America in geopolitically, geo-economically and geo-strategically important areas and lead to the creation of a defensive wall against America's enemies.
What is clear is the war of narratives, which has been placed on the agenda of the great world powers in the form of a hybrid doctrine. The war of narratives basically means playing in the minds of the common people by the big powers. This war basically forms the mental food and fuel for the war thinking between these powers.
A friend told me that I should be careful about the eastern and western narratives. It was a good suggestion. Relying on the grace of God Alhamdulillah and the background of analyzing the issues, I paid more attention to this issue, and the result is the following issues:
First - In the current war, there is no right or wrong. What makes the nature of facts certain; Narratives are the creation of great powers that only smart and discerning people realize. The war of narratives is the false image of the political, military and economic performance of the great powers that they create in the world to pursue and study their interests;
Second - The war of narratives has economic, political, military, security, cultural and hegemonic branches. When we talk about hybrid war, it basically means a war that is composed of all economic, political, military, security, cultural, psychological, linguistic, etc. components. Why have we created the link between the war of narratives and the hybrid war? Because human collective movement requires a thought. Thinking should be created based on a narrative, and the narrative is the origin and source of movement from the beginning. In fact, this principle is called the brain penetration strategy, which creates a narrative in the mind of the reader before the start of the war. Readers and viewers who build the public and already provide the foundation for the legitimacy of this war. With the skillful placement of war in the minds of readers, viewers and the general public who have judged the truth and falsity of this war, the war machine between the great powers has become more active and more active;
Third - Never, never, we should imagine that we are not the target of war. The experience of recent wars and this century shows that no place in the world that has strategic importance, has underground resources, and has benefits for the great and regional powers of the world, will not be immune from war. This is called the principle of the interests of the great powers, who, in order to continue global domination, ensure access to important and vital areas, underground resources and their needs, start any war that no one else can win except themselves. Even military presence, security confrontation, and military alignments all come back to the agreement between these powers. What is shown on the surface by the media is, in essence, an aspect of these wars; that viewers become its main audience. Why do the great powers launch such a war? Because it is one of the main tasks of these powers to engage people's minds and create a theme for the entertainment of the global mind, which has both domestic and cross-border uses. According to the "one war and a hundred subjects" strategy, one of the main goals of these powers is to start a war under its cover and involve the general mentality of the world in a hundred subjects in order to gain important resources and interests under its false radius and vital, achieve;
Fourth - The war of narratives basically refers to the psychological war strategy between the East and the West. In the eyes of the West, the East is a criminal, a trespasser, lawless, far from progressive ideas, undemocratic and abnormal, in today's modern world. While in the Eastern thinking, the West is the founder of terrorism, drug trafficking, responsible for corrupt proxies and the main cause of instability in today's world, which, in order to achieve its political goals, commits aggression and plunders lands and kills people. It leads to dirt and blood. We look at the difference between the views to find out the real nature of this war. While, we should not pay any attention to the big powers and the region except for self-interested perceptions, we should be aware of the main purpose of this self-interested war with the help of narratives. That is, both narratives, while making the facts certain and helping to clarify them, also help a lot to create a narrative of the world apart from the two sides of the war. That is, our look should be a cautious look, concerned and free from any kind of bias. Perhaps we have seen the most concrete example of this debate in the Cold War, how the Soviet Union and the United States of America destroyed each other through war and provided its mental and intellectual sustenance with the help of narratives;
Fifth - The war of narratives has worked well as a tool to gain the interests of great powers. This means that every war must be provided logistically, financially and humanly. To provide the logistics of the war, the weapons, ammunition and materials needed, to provide finance, underground resources and to provide human resources, cheap workers, in the service of the great powers to launch and advance this war are automatically provided.
If you look carefully, the war of narratives is a war of interests, a tool to maintain power for the great powers, a war to calm the mind for the continuation of the dominance of the great powers, a war to hire labor for strategic and war purposes, and a war of lies to deceive the people of the world. Today, the world is involved in the most wars, the source of which is false narratives that have become the common mental food of the people of the world. This narrative provides both the background and platform for these wars so that the great powers acquire and study more economic, political and security-war benefits and creates a preoccupation for the general mentality of the people to realize the existing facts of today's lawless world.