So wouldn't that be by our ideas?
"the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
Our ability to apply violence has to do with our military doctrine, advanced weaponry, the industrial base to build advanced weaponry, and the educational system needed to turn out the engineers and other technicians to build and run such an industrial system. All of this started with ideas by brilliant and talented Westerners (i.e. Europeans).