Masopher's Mind

The great red bear died suddenly in 1991 and since then, Europe and the United States have struggled to tear off strips of the carcass before it can resurrect itself in some other more malignant form. Georgia, the Ukraine, Poland, the Adriatic countries. Nato and the EU bloated themselves by snapping up and supporting newly independent regimes before Russian hegemony crept back into play. And this is the nature of the struggle in the Balkans and black sea areas: Russian backed breakaways versus European and American backed breakaways. But without ideology to hide behind or blame, there cannot be a cold war. It seems sleight of hand that Russia becomes an open market while maintaining military threat upon the world. The bear isn’t red and it’s a little smaller but it’s leaner, meaner and smarter than before, more of a threat not less. Europe under France unified Germany and two timing Britain has also carved out a niche for itself. From de Gaulle to Schroder and Blair, Europe has finally reestablished itself as a Europe capable of invading countries and interfering with internal affairs rather than being pawns of the US and USSR. China has come to the fore as well implementing its own successful chimera of communism and free market economy. The fifth creature is India that uses Russian weapons but also American consumerism. The world has gone from a great eagle and a great bear to a great number of bear-eagle chimerical creatures each singing different words but with a curiously familiar tune.
Will soviet tanks be rolling into our front yard? Not likely but we must remember that it’s not necessary. Once the bank repossesses your land tanks aren’t needed. You don’t need to be conscripted into the army either. A few months of poverty makes army career seem attractive. Unlike during the cold war, Russia has a firm grip on the global economy. Russia doesn’t need to quote Marx to sell weapons. The world is in state where people are willing to buy weapons from anyone because there is no religion, no ideology, no real definition of friends or foes. There is still a lot of rhetoric and some of that rhetoric may involve religious or ideological themes but it’s just excuses and obvious misquoting. The FARC in South America don’t know communism, Al Qaeda don’t know Islam. Its all just greed and power mongering. Bellum omnium contra omnes is imminent reality with only the global class of wealthy elites benefiting in harmony from the discord and poverty of the plebian underclass.

People with money were never the enemy, in fact they are for the most part good. Rich people dont fight wars, they dont force people to be unhappy, poor, niggardly to each other. You are our own worst enemy, you the poor are the ones who fight in the war, you are the ones that refuse to take part in democracy, you are the ones that steal from and decieve one another. You snipe at each other and ridicule each others ideas despite having none of your own.

In many ways you deserve to be terrorized and set against one another by these factions.

Something truly is rotten in the state of this world.