As the global recession unfolds, it brings about the tyranny of human suffering along with it. Here in India, however, things seem very different. We have altogether suffered more than any of the so called First World countries that we have grown immune to it. Somehow, we are also not very immune to it. I heard a very recent quote - "If your neighbour is in economic pain it is recession, and if you are with him then it is 'Depression'". Very true, as our economic neighbours such as the US and Europe are in severe pain. But to roll back and trying to contemplate the actual reasons for this are fruitless as it shows, how human judgment can go wrong and greed can overpower the same judgment. This was so ridiculously true about Lehmann Brothers. Yesterday, I was going through an editorial in TOI which talked about "Fall of Capitalism". The author gave out many instances of fall and then rise of Capitalism. I will quote him differently though. Capitalism as a term should not be used, because it is an evolving organism. In today's world we cannot term something as Capitalism or Communism. China changed over a period of two decades and now perhaps US will go through a change. We call it - "The incessant push towards 'equilibrium', in simple terms of economics".
Perhaps US economy's overdrive towards heaven was suddenly halted, and the age old saying that no one could touch the sky, and one who thinks he has, he has to fall down to realize that he hasn't. With fall of US economy, I have a very nervous feeling that a new world order might arise. The question is who will be part of this new world order. I count the candidates on my fingers and can get some out. China, I believe is the biggest candidate. But like India they too are plagued by incessant paranoia. France has come out as another candidate. But they too suffer from too much inward delusions. Israel is too busy in their own wars. Germany is totally spent. English seem to have lost out. So who is left? There is a painful answer to this. Every great economic fall has led to a war. Last time it happened in WW-II, when Germany rose out of the economic rot to become a superpower. At that time Germany had the inner resources and was always seen as West's prime enemy. Thus, they came out to become the adversary.
But the question is, who now? Perhaps the game has changed now. I feel, the next war is going to be fought over energy, as one philosopher had suggested. The axis might be declared and it might well turn out to be the Middle East. Right from Iraq till Pakistan. Breaking out a war here is perhaps what US will always want for its gloating war machinery. But this war which seems to be war of unequals may turn out to be a global catastrophe. The simple analogy for this catastrophe is the rogue nature of the states that are under the war radar. Countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia are quite peculiarly backstabbing. Perhaps no one should forget Pakistan which is another runaway rogue nation. It is ruled by nincompoops and the power centres in Pakistan are so many that you cannot tell where the rulings are coming from. Pakistan is on verge of self-destruction and in a desperate last attempt it might fall down in front of the terrorists it grew on its soil. This will be a disaster, as the rogue nuclear facilities in Pakistan will fall in hands of these terrorists and that will be the start of global nuclear pounding of Pakistan and other adjacent nations such as Afghanistan and Iran.
My greatest fear is for India. It might turn out that the fallout of Pakistan will subsequently be very bad for India. These terrorists will have ready target in India for their rogue nuclear bombs. America is very far away, thus, their vulnerability is lesser in comparison to ours. Apart from India, China too might fall prey to their own buyers. Chinese have been suffering a lot of humiliation in Xinjiang, from these so called Islamic nincompoops.
Whatever might the scene be, a third World War will spell doom on this world, because in WW-II, at least Germans were reasonable enough, even though they were barbaric. Their loss subdued and repelled the Nazi character. However, for a third war on these rogue Islamic states, things will be different. Many of these Islamic leaders or nations, have little or no reasoning ability. Their sole push is for a revenge which has never been justified. Half of them don't know whom they are taking revenge from. Decades of in-fighting and social disasters has turned them into social zombies who have no brains. Thus, fighting such a lot needs equally bad attitude. Perhaps this time, allied forces might go for a total wipe-out of civillizations after civillization in these regions. If it happens, it might be very sad.
For India, the fear is of its own large Muslim population. Let us see how future's history unfolds...
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