This article has two main goals.
The first is to demonstrate the large extent to which the global financial system determines
national and regional reality in people’s lives and security, including in the USA itself and in the
Western world in general, with an emphasis on the two main post-World-War-II transformations,
which were initiated in 1971, following the cancellation of the Bretton Woods agreement, and in
1991, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
The second is to describe the on-going tectonic shift that followed the 1991 dissolution of the
Soviet Union in broader terms than is usually envisioned, and how this driven and coordinated
shift was chronologically accompanied by: a dramatic acceleration of trade and finance
“globalization”, and an unprecedented campaign of social engineering of the Western upper-
middle-classes, aimed at facilitating USA and world-elite opportunistic exploitation of the new
global circumstances, in turn leading to the present Gilets jaunes, Brexit, Trump... backlash
