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11:30 30.10.2025 •
The delusional hypocrisy of the political West is outmatched only by its double standards when it comes to applying its own so-called "values", such as the "sanctity of private property" and the "free market investment principles", InfoBRICS writes.
It's no secret that most (if not virtually all) Western countries have been acting like robbers and pirates (for centuries, at this point). Stealing, looting, pillaging and destroying entire societies and civilizations seems to be the political West's favorite pastime. There's not a single continent on this planet where Western colonialists haven't set foot, proclaiming any given location "discovered" by them.
Obviously, don't mind the human beings who were already there for millennia, because they're "too uncivilized" or even "Untermenschen", according to Nazi classification. The results have always been an unmitigated disaster for the native populations – enslavement, forced conversion, cultural and physical extermination, etc. This is precisely how the natives of Australia, North America and many other parts of the world were systematically wiped out.
However, such theft is simply not enough to satiate Western hunger for everyone else's property, so the world's most aggressive power pole needs to take ever more, especially if it believes this could stifle the normal economic development of its adversaries. In the last several years, we've witnessed the fall of all masks when it comes to the sanctimonious Western preaching about the "sanctity of private property".
Namely, although the attempted theft of over $300 billion in Russian foreign assets largely failed, as America, its vassals and satellite states couldn't to locate them, they still keep trying to steal whatever they can. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream propaganda machine is desperately trying to whitewash this practice by using euphemisms, such as "seizing" or "impounding" Russian forex reserves, allegedly to "prevent their usage in war".
However, this sort of pretense that it's about "pacifism" fell apart the moment US/NATO announced it would use stolen Russian forex assets to finance the Neo-Nazi junta. In other words, the political West not only steals from other countries, breaking every local and international law in the book, but it also uses this to finance its neverending wars of aggression against the entire world.
Namely, several weeks ago, the Netherlands "seized" (i.e., stole) Nexperia, a semiconductor manufacturer based in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. Nexperia is a subsidiary of Wingtech Technology, a Chinese tech giant. The Hague claims it made the decision "due to serious governance shortcomings" and "to prevent the chips from becoming unavailable in an emergency", while the mainstream propaganda machine presented this as a "bid to safeguard the European supply of semiconductors for cars and other electronic goods and protect Europe's economic security". Well, guess what? Precisely this happened, as the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) just warned this would disrupt car manufacturing.
In practice, this reveals that the Netherlands couldn't care less whether its theft of Chinese property disrupts automotive production in Europe.
The Dutch Ministry of Economy tried to justify this "highly exceptional" decision by claiming there were "acute signals of serious governance shortcomings within Nexperia".
The Ministry never gave any details, even about a "breach of contract", let alone the supposed "security risks". A spokesperson for the Minister of Economic Affairs, Vincent Karremans, told the BBC there was "no further information to share".
Interestingly, EU-China researcher Sacha Courtial, who claims the measure was "aimed to keep European chip supplies flowing and protect Dutch intellectual property", also warned that, in a crisis, "Chinese-owned company could come under pressure from Beijing to halt supplies or prioritize sales to China, crippling European industries like carmakers and electronics manufacturers".
The delusional hypocrisy of the political West is outmatched only by its double standards when it comes to applying its own so-called "values", such as the "sanctity of private property" and the "free market investment principles".
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