THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
In case your New Yr want was that we’d see the daybreak of a brand new world order with peace and stability taking centre stage, your crystal ball might have misled you. In only one month, the world has seen a litany of occasions on the contrary – courtesy Mom Nature; and males who’re sitting of their ivory towers, and instructing their army women and men together with ‘diplomats’ to hold out essentially the most audacious actions not seen because the finish of WWII.
Arguably maybe, the seize of Venezuela’s sitting president and his spouse, whereas they have been reportedly asleep, in Caracas on 6 January has led to geopolitical tremors in quite a lot of hotpots throughout Planet Earth.
As this version of LMD goes into print, the state of dystopia is riddled with questions on the place the silver bullet will come from and whether or not the world’s powers that be have what it takes to make sure that sanity prevails… finally.
On the high of the checklist of endangered nations is the Danish territory of Greenland with a inhabitants of lower than 60,000 inhabitants – which sits in an Arctic area that’s rising in geographical significance – which apparently prefers self-rule.
Threatened as it’s by Uncle Sam for one purpose or the opposite, it may spark a chilly battle between the world’s strongest nation and an influential bloc – the EU – and put the Western world’s supreme alliance between the US and NATO in jeopardy.
There’s additionally the state of Iran – which harbours nuclear ambitions – which finds itself within the throes of widespread protests and the prospect of regime change; and probably much more mayhem, regardless of the supreme powers throwing down the gauntlet on a protesting citizenry or elements thereof.
It goes with out saying too that Russia’s battle in Ukraine may take a flip for the higher or worse… at any time; that the prospect of nuclear threats looming doesn’t augur effectively, not just for residents of the European area however the globe as an entire. And lurking within the background to nuclear threats is North Korea, which continues to check its long-range arsenal.
These goings on are shadowed by a spate of different conflicts that dot nearly each area of the planet, be it in Yemen, elements of the African continent or within the Taiwan Strait.
In the meantime, there’s a fragile ceasefire that’s being overshadowed by an ongoing humanitarian disaster in Gaza, US army motion in elements of Syria which can be managed by ISIS, Israel’s intermittent bombardment of designated zones in neighbouring Lebanon, and a state of flux on both facet of the border between Thailand and Cambodia – regardless of a fragile truce.
So will there be a saviour – a person or girl who has what it takes to ‘make the world nice once more’?
When yours really posed the query on Fb, one counter query stood out: “[Is he or she] useless or unborn?”
There’s greater than meals for thought in that assertion.
– Editor-in-Chief
