"If we can't change our government, and if we can't convince China to pull in Putin's leash, this is going to be a very tough decade. Maybe even - our last."
Big, big news yesterday. HUGE news! The UN has FINALLY weighed in on the illegal and immoral war on Ukraine. It is about dang time! The Secretary General has publicly admonished the war. How evil it is. Wait - do you mean the UN is FINALLY going to dress down Russia? Kick them off the Security Council? Maybe even kick them out of the UN? Not quite.
No, the Secretary General has some serious concerns about how this war is taking time away from the UN's war on climate change? Huh? That is not in the charter! Keeping the peace however, is in the UN's charter. In fact, everything Russia has done since it illegally "took" Crimea, is against the UN's precious charter. Never mind that Putin is acting worse than Hitler. Never mind Putin has threatened the United States (numerous times) with a nuclear attack. Never mind a nuclear attack on the US or NATO would pretty much ruin the world for centuries to come. But climate change? That is a horse of a different color!
It does not take more than a 3rd grade education, to realize the UN has about as much of a chance to end this war, as a snowball has in (you know where). As most of us know, the UN has become a club of statists and globalists. Peacekeepers? Never.
There is only one person on Earth who can bring this war to an end. If you guessed Joe Biden, WRONG ANSWER! This guy is afraid of his own shadow, and Putin knows it. No, it is Xi Jinping of China. He is the man behind the curtain, watching with a dispassionate gaze, as thousands of innocents have died. His tacit, and sometimes not so tacit, support of Russia in this war, is the fuel which keeps the war going. Should that support disappear, so would the war. So long as China is in Russia's corner, the war will go on. The killing will go on. The threat of an all out nuclear war will go on.
Could things ever get worse? Oh, yes. With Iran about ready to come out of the nuclear closet, we will have one more nut ball country to deal with. That makes Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, the cauldron of bad actors, which will become the new "Axis of Evil". But don't worry. Biden's defense authorization for next year is so parsimonious, it looks more suited for Lichtenstein, than the United States.
The "Roaring Twenties" of this century could turn out to be very, very good, or a disaster. Right now it is looking like the later. We need a change of government next January. We need the US to talk tough to China about Russia's misadventures in Ukraine. If we can't change our government, and if we can't convince China to pull in Putin's leash, this is going to be a very tough decade. Maybe even - our last.
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