World War
I don’t like war. I don’t like writing about war. I don’t like thinking about war. I don’t think we’re even thinking right about war! All this push to punish Russia is resulting in consequences that are increasing the sphere of suffering way beyond Ukraine. It results in world wide suffering as not seen since World War II. I doubt these are unexpected consequences. The entire affair seems contrived, planned, and intentional. There are people in power wanting the world to suffer. They want the world destroyed.
Consider for a moment what would happen to America if the world decided to impose sanctions on the USA. Seriously reflect on that for a moment. The US imports most of its oil. Imports most of its manufactured goods. It imports much of it’s food. Heck, it imports manure from Russia, which affects the farmers, which affects availability of food.
India has a long history of food shortages. They see hard times ahead. They have decided to reduce how much grain they share with the world because, they’ve been hungry while the British took their grain to feed the UK. They’re not going to be hungry while the rest of the world eat their harvest. That’s actually reasonable. This is not couched under the hypothetical in the last paragraph. That is happening. The rest of the world, the ones use to buying India’s grain, are mad. Why? Well, why would you waste your time, land, and resource to grow crops, when India can do it. “We had agreements!”
“The World is at War, all agreements will be negotiated on a case by case basis.”
I share that to share this. There is no level of sanction that will immobilize Russia, or deter it from it’s military goals. Russia has been hungry. They have gone without material wealth. They know how to survive hard times. Add to that, they have oil, they have refineries, they have manufacturing capabilities, they have access to foods. Sanctioning Russia does not hurt Russia. They won’t blink an eye.
Who do sanctions hurt? India. Shri Lanka. Don’t look away, this is coming to you and everyone very soon. We live in a world so interdependent on every nation, that if one suffers, all suffer. I am sorry the rest of the world didn’t try to understand Russia’s needs. They were very clear. It’s sad the Ukraine people are going to die.
They’re deaths are on US and Europe, for past inactions, and present ineptness.
Why does the rest of the world have to suffer and die because America was too inept, with their head so far up their asses that they don’t know if their males can have babies and be entitled to abortions. The fact that the ‘good’ old USA didn’t des-escalate this problem twenty years ago by befriending Russia is a serious failure to secure world peace and return to the moon, maybe go to Mars.
One strong, American leader asked Gorbachev to tear down this wall! The wall came down. Will the new, missile iron curtains start going up? One wall comes down, millions go up… How many Nukes do suppose will slip by these defense systems?
People can only live under threat of violence for so long
Since World War II, people have lived under the constant threat of nuclear war. That threat level came down a bit after the wall came down. There was hope the world might see sustained peace.
America, land of the free, failed to keep the world free because they were too busy profiteering. The days of profiteering are over.
It is clear, too many people with agendas contrary to the good of their nations and the world are vying for power. Many of the world have protested peacefully. Not just Canada, but you saw dictators in countries that thought they were democratic being squashed just like you might imagine happens in Russia or China. People are getting shut down in Russia and China. The people don’t want this. They had a taste of freedom and they don’t want to go backwards. There are people in Europe, right now, protesting. Before Shi Lanka fell to violence, there were peaceful protests. It was the armies and militias that pushed the populace into riots and sheer chaos.
This is coming to a theatre near you. The US saw the writing on the wall and used COVID relief funds to buy bearcats and drones. Apparently, USA is intending to mirror China and have drones yelling at people, “Curb your soul’s desire for freedom. Do what we say when we say.”
Or else.
I don’t like war, but it is written in the constitution to rise up when tyranny presents itself. If the Czars of homeland security read this, I will likely go on their terrorist watch list, even though I am a pacifist, and I am antiwar.
I am not saying there is not a time to fight. I think we jump to fight way too quick. Sometimes it’s right. Maybe instead of sanctions, which has never deterred an enemy, we should have gone right to fight, right to defending a free country.
Except, the USA has not always been a consistent champion of democracy. We have picked our allies carefully. If there was benefit, we helped. If there wasn’t a benefit, well, we pulled out. Sometimes we pulled out so fast that we left people and equipment behind, in our absence the state we were defending collapsed to level of depravity that was not there before we entered.
Doing that has hurt the world. There have been and will likely be more consequences. Right now lots of nations are mobilizing, for good and bad reasons, and likely all because someone else pushed a pawn here, or a Bishop there, and this game is about to be super hot.
I find that scary. I don’t hear any rational discourse mobilizing to help people and de-escalate violence. I see no movement towards nations helping the masses get their needs met.
This stuff frightens me. I emote. There are good things to be found, too. I see those. Possibility of reducing the affects of aging and improving health. New technologies, even fusion, on the horizon! Seems like it’s all about to happen, just as we all get ready to blow up. Is this tension because when tech changes regime change? Usually advances in technology translates into consequences, like unemployment, and a change in money flowing from one bank to another. Banks don’t like to see the money flow in new directions.
Which was evidence by every economy recession and the people never get bailed out. Never mind the basic truth of economics, it’s all TRICKLES UP, but it rarely trickles down. Time to change regimes? The world could do this. It could do this without war. But it feels like there are some in power who would rather destroy everything than allow another person to step up and run things in improved ways.
