When one consider world diplomacy and relationship between
countries, especially between countries that considers themselves as world
powers, you can forced to see ‘complexes’ at play. Superiority complex between
world leaders and countries ideology that tends usually to the extreme right
has no value for such country or for the comity of countries that are likely
tied to the destiny of the one who has developed into a world power.
We see this recourse throughout history and one is forced to
ask, “Do they ever read history books?” Because if they do should we be making
the same mistakes that our fathers made while building the nation? If we will
never learn from the past and try and move on to new chapters of genuine human relationships
one devoid of race, ethnicity or colour, we might therefore just be the channel
for human extinction (I strongly believe that the human race will be
responsible directly towards our own destruction).
Man’s nature has been such of domination but rather than
dominate over nature we usually want to dominate over each other. Man’s nature
also is that of resistance! There is so much you can do to break a man, after a
while he wants his freedom even if this will result to his death. There it
goes; the recipe for conflict therefore wherefore man dominates (or wants to)
man and man resists vehemently.
I have painted a clear picture of what causes conflicts but
it is never as simple as it sounds or look. Take Israel’s bombardment of Gaza
for instance; it is never a black and white story. There are years of
tenaciously conflicting stories embedded into that conflict and Israel seem to have
stepped up effort in making a statement whether it paints them bad in front of
the world. Whether we biblify it or we simply secularise it, the war between
the Arab countries and that of Zion may continue forever; and I mean FOREVER!
After the cold war, we would have expected that Russia will
be less pertinent in forcing a sovereign and autonomous county into tussle of
gerrymandering and forceful secession but alas it is happening. And like I said
earlier, the issue is never as simple as it sounds. Yet it is innocent people
that bear the brunt. They are the ones that die unnecessary and avoidable deaths
because they have no army to defend them despite the fact that they pay tax and
are law abiding citizens. Russia has responded with her own ban on US and EU
products and it is laughable because no country can survive as an Island on its
own; we need each other so that we can trade and do commerce. Ask Iran and
Libya Mr. Putin
So who bears the brunt from two world powers fighting? Robert
Legvold, a writer on National Interest website simplifies it in his blog by
saying “The dangers, therefore, should be
obvious. The potential costs of the current U.S.-led Western approach, however,
require a larger perspective. Daily, they mount up as the reports come in of
severed ties between U.S. and Russian nuclear scientists working on a wide
array of projects, from the peaceful use of nuclear energy to planetary defense
against asteroids, imperiled efforts to eliminate weapons-grade nuclear
materials spread around the world and suspended NATO-Russian cooperation in
constructing innovative technologies for fighting terrorism”. He goes on to
say US must rather engage the Russian leaders in a continuous effort to dousing
the conflict rather than sanctions that will pump up Putin’s “EGO” and make him
want to continue the fight or at least remain in the spot where compromise is
irrelevant.
Like I said before, we never learn and the more world leaders
pursue personal agendas and grandstanding that suits no one, the more we will
continue to see the avoidable conflicts like Israel vs Gaza, Russia vs US, Isis
vs Iraq, Sudan vs Sudan, Kenya vs Kenyans, Nigerian leaders vs Nigerian
Citizens, Islam vs Militancy, etc. The war may be different but the battle is
the same; Man’s insatiable desire to dominate Man for the aggrandizement of
wealth, power and ego. That is unacceptable
and the quicker we stop this madness, the better for the human race.
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