The Fall of the West

This book is the sequel to two volumes by Nicholas Hagger that I reviewed last summer – The Secret History of the West and The Syndicate, which tell the story of the political and economic dominance of small organised groups of people who have set up a number of interlinked organisations over the last 100 years to pursue their geopolitical objective of world government to advance their commercial interests. I recommend readers to consult this earlier review (PE 136, p. 56) if you have access to it before reading on, as it provides the necessary historical background to current developments. This study presents the story behind Covid, the levelling down of the West and the shift of power to the East with the rise of China. It is set out in the form of a case submission of evidence for consideration by the reader as jury. The book serves as a warning to the western world, beginning with the story of the Syndicate’s New World Order, which has recently morphed into the Great Reset

During the 20^th century, the Syndicate coded by Nicholas into ‘Rothschilds’ and ‘Rockefellers’ have respectively been funding both sides of wars, and the large-scale socialist developments in Russia and China through various intermediaries – both foundations and individuals. They do not want to see a continuation of independent nation states or Pax Americana but rather a centralised authoritarian world government along the technocratic lines of the existing Chinese system. Part of their existing control system is through financing pipelines, gas and oil all over the world and through encouraging regional economic and political integration.

Nicholas looks into the origins of Covid-19 and its connection with the Wuhan Institute of Virology where gain-of-function research was jointly pursued with US funding funnelled by the NIH through the EcoHealth Alliance whilst simultaneously working on vaccines - even though, as we have discovered, the coronavirus mutates rapidly to bypass existing vaccines. Significantly, mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates developed and jointly owned by NIAID and Moderna were sent to the University of North Carolina on December 12, 2019, nearly 3 weeks before China announced Covid (the original development of the technology was funded by DARPA – in The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. All this forms part of a longer history of developing and patenting coronaviruses – 120 patents were issued between 2008 and 2019, as researched by Dr David Martin; and a testing method for Covid-19 was patented in 2015 (p. 87). The bottom line is that this research constitutes the deliberate development of a bioweapon – we are now living in biological or biosecurity age.

The next question concerns the release in Wuhan. Nicholas assesses the lab leak theory, finding it unproven, though he presents strong evidence for a lab origin, which has also been the conclusion of various US Congressional committees. He wonders if the geopolitical idea was to frame China, remarking that they would not wish to harm their own interests, although they did enable the spread through keeping international flights open – maybe even in retaliation. Instead, he argues that the virus was strategically released as a destabilising bioweapon attack on China at the Military World Games taking place in Wuhan, where many athletes fell ill with Covid-like symptoms. At the same time, scenario planning Event 201 was taking place in New York, and its recommendations for handling a pandemic make it a chilling dress-rehearsal attended by government, intelligence, pharmaceutical and media representatives.

The Chinese government has adopted more aggressive and expansionist policies since 2012, and its Belt and Road Initiative covering infrastructure and projects in 140 countries can be seen as a form of empire building (p. 130) as China seeks to project its power and influence (p. 99). President Xi has given the opening addresses at the last two World Economic Forum meetings, and the WEF is effectively a Syndicate Forum in advocating the Great Reset representing ‘centralisation of control into fewer hands, globalisation and a transformation of society through surveillance technologies.’ (p. 101) The transition to stakeholder capitalism confers unprecedented corporate power and influence, making corporations more powerful in global decision-making than governments. (p. 105) Although this is not discussed in detail, a part of the transition may be an impending financial collapse and a transition to central bank digital currencies, with the phasing out of cash. Other disturbing forecasts come from the intelligence agency Deagel (pp. 120-125) implying drastic population reductions during this decade, possibly due to nuclear or (unrestricted) biological weapons. – see especially their 2020 disclaimer. It has now become imperative for the public to become aware of the dangers of gain-of-function research involving bioweapons (there are also Pentagon labs situated in Ukraine) and to insist on their complete abolition.

The withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan represents the decline of Pax Americana and opens up the way for Chinese investment – seen from the Syndicate angle, it is the means of dismantling America as a superpower and precipitating its decline and the shift towards CCP’s authoritarian system based on social control. Already in 2004, Nicholas forecast the New World Order as ‘a socialist state in which there would be a redistribution of wealth and a reduced standard of living for all Westerners… there would be regimentation and restriction on movement, with no freedom of worship, no freedom to own private property, no free speech, and no freedom to publish.’ (p. 164) The Covid-19 pandemic was a good exercise to test the extent of obedience and conformity (reinforced by behavioural psychology techniques), and the real fall of the West can be seen in the loss of freedom of speech, human rights and democratic values.

Nicholas pragmatically concludes that an authoritarian world government is preferable to war and financial collapse, but he hopes that it can eventually transition into a democratic World State, the prospects for which he has outlined in three other books also reviewed in these pages, and which would have sufficient authority ‘to abolish war, enforce disarmament, combat famine, disease and poverty, and solve the world’s financial, environmental and virological problems’ within a universalism that understands cultural diversity. The short-term offers a grim prospect of increasingly centralised digital technocracy offered as a solution amid collapsing ecological and socio-economic systems but designed to reinforce the power of elites such as the WEF and backed by the military-industrial complex with its vast web of wealth, power and influence that is emphatically not in the interests of our overall human welfare and well-being, even if it is presented as such. We need to focus our individual efforts on our own local communities in the meantime as ‘glocalisation’ is also a major trend. The book is indeed a timely and clear-eyed warning to the West informed by Nicholas’s extensive historical and political knowledge as well as his understanding of the dynamics of civilisational rise and decline.