THE ENDURING TRAGEDY OF PLANET EARTH
Over thirty years ago, the United States of America, the European Union and the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of the so-called Soviet Empire in Central and Eastern Europe, were celebrating the fall of the Soviet Union, while displaying an almost sinful disregard for the complex predicaments slowly tearing apart their seemingly contented societies. Horatius’ dictum – Nunc est bibendum – It is time to drink – buried common sense and discriminating thinking in assessing correctly the revolutionary changes of the early 1990s across the globe. Since then, developments in Europe, Asia, the Greater Middle East, Africa and South America have proven that politicians throughout the global political spectrum have been neither visionaries, nor even good tacticians, but simply bunglers, persons with little intelligence who oscillated between insatiable appetite for power and short-sighted parochialism; men and women who have made the world more corrupt, unsafe, unstable and impoverished. Indeed, short and temporary are the joyous and cloudless moments of human history.
The honeymoon between Washington, D.C. and Moscow ended with Putin’s restoration of Russia’s imperial ambitions. The Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917, was not the beginning of a new Communist Utopia but a desperate attempt to salvage the ethos of Imperial Russia from total collapse. Thus, based on the failed model of the Tsarist regime, mingled amateurishly with the primitive political culture of discombobulated Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism, this endeavor collapsed too. Presently, Russia is going through the third reincarnation of its version of the sovereign people in chains, in which repressive authoritarianism slowly but surely has mutated into the old Tsarist despotism. Regrettably, neither successive American presidents and their advisors, nor European politicians west of Russia, have been able to discover the difference between the forest and the trees. They all have been unsuccessful in understanding reality because they have been too afraid of facing the new challenges globally and also within their own societies. For this reason, they have chosen to transform Russia and its people into something that they possibly could not have been converted, namely, into absorbing principles of politics and law that they were not ready to accept. Hence, currently, the United States of America and the European Union again face an illegitimate state of Russia, which does not have the support of the majority of the people. This historical contradiction remains insoluble. The eternal struggle between the West and the East will continue unabated as long as it is not understood that coexistence and peace could only be achieved with a legitimate government.
The other erroneous honeymoon with the People’s Republic of China that lasted for over forty years also ended in utter disappointment. Its new despot, Xi Jinping, found himself in the second decade of the 21st century in a classic authoritarian predicament. Because of domestic and international developments since Mao Zedong’s demise in September 1976, it was impossible to return to his imperial tyranny, yet it was equally unacceptable to allow even the minimum of decentralization and liberties that existed before Xi’s absolutism, if the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party were to survive. Hence, the People’s Republic of China is passing through a global political, financial, economic, cultural and existential crisis. Conversely, the United States of America and the European Union are gripped by terror that their hopes to transform China into a peaceful cooperative partner turned out to be another idiotic illusion. Even worse, the latter’s emergence as a violently expansionist military power has given birth to global panic and ubiquitous hatred driven also by the peculiar phenomenon of Chinese racism.
Meanwhile, in the United States of America and across the member states of the European Union and beyond single issue minority groups with their one-track-mindset as well as violently radical and hateful minority organizations, aimed at destroying democracy with its right of opposition and the rule of law, are determined to usurp power and bring death and annihilation for everybody in opposition to their war against political legitimacy and individual freedoms. Their irreconcilable hostility to the past and the present renders any peaceful accommodation with the majority, which according to them must be totally eradicated from the world, a giant hoax that, in turn, cannot serve as a principled foundation of liberty and legitimate order. Led by an inherently unprincipled and by now mentally greatly handicapped president, America has become the victim of fickle circumstances. Likewise, the European Union has sunk even deeper into becoming an instrument of unpredictable coercion. Consequently, the number of member states who do not adhere to the founding principles of the organization have been steadily increasing. Poland and Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, as well as Greece and Cyprus, to name only the most obvious elements, the usurpations of the democratic system by pseudo-political criminal syndicates have presented Brussels with the specter of frightful and ultimately deadly prospects.
In the Greater Middle East and South-East Asia, religious fanaticism, coupled with the resurrected great power rivalry, have instilled the fear of unbridled violence throughout the regions. Following the catastrophic interventions on behalf of democracy-building in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya and elsewhere by NATO, the faith in the future of democratic principles has reached an abysmally low point. Restoring peace and stability requires close cooperation among all states in both regions. The key distinction between peace and stability on the one hand and absolutist hegemony based on terrorism on the other is the Abraham Accord versus the Islamic Republic of Iran. Israel and the Islamic states must resist being dragged into the vicious circle of the past, in which they have been constantly at war with each other. The curse of mutual fear must be broken. Otherwise, war would rage endlessly with the prospect of annihilation of both sides. Finally, the untempered desires to violate and overthrow the very principles of coexistence must be resisted and agreements must be respected. Conversely, Iranian hegemony must be defeated because a religious Empire and peaceful coexistence are irreconcilable contradictions. The year 2022, must mark the beginning of the end of the global madness that has gripped the world from the start of the 21st century and open the gates of human existence without fear of political violence, religious terrorism and corrupt illegitimacy of governments throughout the globe.
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