"The elites are transnationalists. They have their culture. Private jets, trophy wives, tax dodging. The specifics of local culture means less than nothing, they actually despise it, everywhere. To them people are commodities, a ‘labor force’, nothing different than a pile of coal"
I think that's exactly right. But don't underestimate the desperation of these "elites" to divest themselves of their deep seated guilt - Guilt for what their ancestors did, guilt for their own success, and most of all guilt for belonging to an ethnicity/culture that has been so extroidinarily successful.
They are on a quest to punish others of their own ethnicity and culture to prove to themselves and others that they have "risen above" the old order and have been reborn, perfectly suited to assume the mantle of leadership in the coming perfect future, which they will naturally control due to their inherent superior enlightened nature. For them that's just a given.
They are the most puerile narcissists on the planet, and getting rid of them as self-appointed overlords will not be easy in any country.
I’ve seen it up close and personal. I used to manage a small airport in Nashville on the weekends when we would get a lot of private jet traffic. The owners and their wives and guests would treat my linemen like crap especially the foreigners that flew in. I once had a woman throw her fur coat at me without saying a word like I was a coat rack. Of course to her I probably looked like a coat rack. I was on the verge of murder that day.
One of the most rude people that flew in was Jimmy Buffett and his entourage. Rude.