useless treaties
The Treaty of Tordesillas signed between the world power of Spain and the world marine power of Portugal, imagined in the palaces full of kings, queens, princes and princesses, their generals and admirals full of themselves, with the arrogance of world celebrities at the top of the scale. of impenetrable power, with their mighty transoceanic caravels that were the equivalent of the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of our contemporary times, with their powerful weapons of attack that were the massive iron spheres that were launched by the mighty powder cannons with if they were modern Tomahawk or Calibri cruise missiles, they could destroy enemy forts on the sea coast or send other enemies to the bottom of the sea.
These were countries that could not be challenged by any other nation in the world in the 15th century.
Based on that unparalleled power they divided the world into two parts, half for each power, without plebiscite, without assembly of the league of nations, without authorization that any multilateral and international body, the powers never ask for a license for their international licenses, is the principle Hobbesian of realism in the theories of international relations models.
Imagine today that a power powered by the sail of winds, could be powerful enough to divide the whole world among itself, which was precariously able to navigate the storms and technological difficulties of navigation and logistics, pretending that it could conquer and explore the whole world from caravels. precarious.
To understand the scenario, imagine that today, China, Russia and the USA divided the planets of the solar system between themselves in a treaty, it would be ridiculous if not funny, crazy and unthinkable that with our technology we thought we were capable of exploring and colonizing the planets. planets of the solar system.
That's what Spain and Portugal did in the 15th century.
Even today, the US is certain that it can control all the countries on earth from its immense military and economic capacity, even though reality conspires against this fanciful pretense, because nature conspired against it from the beginning.
Nature has placed about 90% of the land in the Northern Hemisphere, and the remaining 10% of the dry terrestrial territories are in the Southern Hemisphere, this means that 90% of the countries and the population of the earth are situated in the Northern Hemisphere of the earth.
Nature put almost all niobium reserves in the form of compound ore in Brazil, nature put 70% of the oil and gas reserves in poor countries and Russian Asia, nature put 99% of the rare earth reserves with which make the screens of cell phones and tablets precisely in China, nature has placed 85% of the lithium reserves with which 99% of electric batteries are made in Bolivia.
So it would be natural for the countries that hold the raw materials to sell them to the industrially capable countries to process these minerals and transform them into final products and sell them to humanity.
The holders of the will to power divided the world into hereditary captaincies where they established the monopsony, or the oligopsony to determine the purchase prices of raw materials that would be imposed on the poor holders of raw materials, and the supposed powerful ones perpetrated a conspiracy where only the brands can have access through the homologation and quality control systems established by them, only a group of industrial products can be freely marketed in the intense trade zones with the due homologation that creates the market reserve of their own convenience, under penalty of isolation, boycott and immeasurable and disproportionate sanctions to economically destroy any intruder who is not part of the producer leagues as in the Middle Ages happened with the powerful Hanseatic leagues that controlled the entire trade in slaves, sugar, and pau brasil.
International Trade has become just an empty expression in a world divided as if it were a modern version of the Treaty of Tordesillas, disguised as a world market where the law of supply and demand never really existed, only in the virtual world of the media and fictitious international organizations such as UN, NATO, OPEC, OECD, WTO, IMF, WB, OAS, and many other attempts to make asymmetric international relations less colonialist.
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