View From The Stalls Blog 10

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View From The Stalls 10

 

Don’t want to scare you guys, but we, and I mean all of humanity, are living in very dangerous times. As if global warming and its affect upon climate change was not enough to make us sit up and say “hey! enough already”, the conflict in Ukraine has all the elements of escalating it into a global catastrophe. “This crap’s real my peeps”. I’m talking about the possibility of thermo-nuclear war, whereby temperature around the world would rise beyond 200,000 degrees, effectively ending all life on this God-given Earth.


But, let’s take a step back and ask ourselves how we got to this juncture, and who the architects and proponents of our current situation are. “Surprise, surprise”, it’s the same people in both cases. I shan’t mention them by name, that I shall leave to you to figure out. But here’s a clue. They are the biggest economy in the world, unapologetically spewing out millions of tons of carbon gases into the atmosphere, and answerable to no-one. They also believe that among the nations of the world, they are exceptional.


This is the country which continues to flood Ukraine with offensive weaponry, thereby prolonging a conflict which might have ended months ago. If you haven’t got it yet, this country has been involved in wars and conflicts around the world for as long as it has been in existence.


 Now, they’re poking the Russian bear, antagonizing it, baiting it, and for what? I  don’t know what the end game is, but we’re talking 2 nuclear-armed powers playing chicken here. It may not end well folks. But hey! don’t take my word for it, watch alternative television stations like RT, and Press TV, not Comic Nonsense Network (CNN) and British Baloney Clowns (BBC). Get the other side of the story and form your own opinions. Listen to progressive analysts like Pepe Escobar, Scott Ritter, Ken o”Keefe, Mohamed Marandi, Peter Lavelle, Marzia Hashemi, and the like.


The likes of Piers Morgan, (BBC), Wolf Blitzer, (CNN) and their motley crews exist only to poison fertile minds with political hogwash. They should be avoided. So, my dear peeps, do not allow yourselves to be led by the noses, you’re smarter than that. The situation is dire! Empower yourselves with truth and conviction. Speak to your religious leaders. Get their perspectives. Moreover, do your bit to protect our planet, it’s the only one we have…  



~ By Q-Squared


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