Geopolitical cauldron |
If anyone was thinking that global matters were improving in terms of peace or prosperity, it's time to take the shocker — humanity is creeping down moral decrepitude and extreme political instability, by the minute! The geopolitical cauldron is bubbling with wars, and international laws are broken every day!
The kidnapping of democratically elected, popular Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by the US and detaining him in New York take us back to the sad memory of how Iraq's socialist leader Saddam Hussein was killed in a NATO-administered sham prosecution; and how the body of Muammar Gaddafi, the man who was running a truly welfare state in his country, was dragged in Libyan streets.
Waging unprovoked, unjust wars upon weaker states and toppling governments via political interference, colour revolutions, coups and even assassinations is a norm for the US. Maduro's kidnapping is just an addition to the list of America's illegal activities. Rather, it has laid bare the savage, hidden beneath the white skin, the three-piece suit and the false slogans of democracy and liberalism. It is clear now that the US is the super-rogue state of the world. But sadly, the other emerging powers also seem to be adding to the mess, not lessening it.
For those of us who fail to connect the dots between one conflict and the other and between one regime-change and another, sheer naivety will kill us all in the end. We are too naive to ascertain how big powers sell off the fate of humanity behind closed doors every now and then. And certainly, we were too naïve to think that........