‘If the next world war is to happen, it will most likely be in Asia and feature a clash between the incumbent hegemon, the United States, and the principal challenger, China. The good news is China does not want war now…’
“WE are facing a grave national emergency. We are in the midst of a world at war and every day increases the danger that we, too, may be drawn into the conflict… The totalitarian powers are bent upon the conquest of the whole world. The democracies of Europe and America are gallantly fighting to prevent the achievement of this nefarious aim.” [https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1941/08/16/platform-of-the-nacionalista-party-august-16-1941/]
This is the sort of assessment that we expect right now from all of the office-seekers basking under the Klieg-lights, the trapo mayors and the profiteering C-suite as well as the presumptive deans and narcissistic chancellors. But these selfish creatures are failures. “Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.” [Jude 1:11]
Using our Orion Cube meanwhile, we find in this 21st century: A trans-oceanic fruit catastrophe. “The banana equivalent to COVID-19 is spreading to new countries, forcing the industry to change how the world’s most widely eaten fruit is farmed and even how it could taste.” [https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-pandemic-threatening-bananas.html] “Ten thousands of hectares of Cavendish plantations have been wiped out in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. The damage caused by this second outbreak has already surpassed the US$400 million mark.” [https://fusariumwilt.org/index.php/en/about-fusarium-wilt/]
(1) A worldwide urban poverty Armageddon of terrorism (2017 Marawi Siege), homelessness and hopelessness. “A myriad of public health factors like lack of clean drinking water, sanitation facilities, food insecurity and lack of immunization expose residents in urban slums to significant risk, in addition to the risk of COVID-19 transmission.” [“COVID-19 recovery and the global urban poor,” https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00025-x.pdf] “Dr. Aisa Kacyira, Deputy Executive Director of UN-Habitat, emphasized that we need a city wide approach to crises in cities and the response has to be people centered.” [https://unhabitat.org/cities-in-crisis-or-crisis-in-cities]
(2) A trans-continental 3F. “The rural poor, landless, and net buyers are in no better position to confront the crisis without significant suffering.” [Ruel MT, Garrett JL, Hawkes C, Cohen MJ. “The food, fuel, and financial crises affect the urban and rural poor disproportionately: a review of the evidence,” J Nutr., 2010 Jan]
(3) A planetary fish shortage. “The decline of available fish is so severe that Africans in coastal areas are forced to look for protein elsewhere. This means going deeper and deeper into the forests for bush meat, which has led to the extinction of almost half the species in some animal reserves in Ghana.” [https://olsonfarlow.com/portfolios/silent-slaughter] “The number of overfished stocks globally has tripled in half a century and today fully one-third of the world’s assessed fisheries are currently pushed beyond their biological limits, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.” [https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/overfishing]
No wonder then that the chauvinistic Han hegemonists are trying to cordon off the Southeast Asian Sea, which is a Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone Of Peace, Freedom And Neutrality. No wonder then that American congressmen want the Eagle to Act: Ensuring American Global Leadership and Engagement – “a measure intended to provide hundreds of billions of dollars for increased military aid to America’s Asian allies and for research on advanced technologies deemed essential for any future high-tech arms race with China.” [https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/15/u-s-china-near-war-status-report/] This kind of confrontation has happened 80 years prior.
“The world today is engaged in the most titanic conflict of all history. Two-thirds of mankind is in battle array and the other third is tremendously concerned with the outcome. This is a conflict which is straining not alone the spiritual and material resources, the manpower and armament, of the nations involved; far more than that, it is straining the capacity of all peoples, including our own, for clear thinking and firm decision.” [Frank Murphy (Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court), “Our Greatest Danger: The United States And The Russo-German War,” Delivered before the Convention of the Knights of Columbus at Atlantic City, August 20, 1941]
Can Earthlings avoid it? “Vladivostok–If the next world war is to happen, it will most likely be in Asia and feature a clash between the incumbent hegemon, the United States, and the principal challenger, China. The good news is China does not want war now and in the foreseeable future, primarily because Beijing knows too well that the odds are not on its side. But if we look ahead 20 years from now, in 2034, the circumstances will have shifted significantly.” [Artyom Lukin, “Imagining World War III-In 2034,” New Perspectives Quarterly, Vol. 31, Issue 4, 2014] This is New World Disorder 2.0. The precursor —
“Germany, Italy and Japan, each of them armed with the most modern and destructive weapons, have banded themselves together upon a scheme of conquest against their more peaceful neighbors. Within the past seven years these three nations have successfully attacked and conquered some 16 other nations…They are seeking to turn back to the customs of the Dark Ages and they are enforcing upon the nations which have been unfortunate enough to fall under their power systems of forced labor.” [Henry L. Stimson (Secretary of War), “You will not falter–You cannot fail,” Delivered over radio, August 15, 1941]
Worse for the Gen Z today, the Earth-wide anti-fascist struggle is entwined with the Global War on Terror. Note the fourth commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism scheduled on 20 August 2021. “It occurs 20 years after the 9/11 attacks and during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected people around the world…as it has denied them the healing benefits of social connectedness and peer support.” [https://www.un.org/counterterrorism/2021-terrorism-victims-day] The price of failure is exorbitant:
“Hundreds of cities have been laid waste…Millions of men, women and children have been slaughtered like cattle. A whole civilization is in flames.” [Rev. John A. O’brien, Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame), “The Futility Of War,” Delivered over the radio, August 18, 1941]
Meanwhile, Filipinos and other Terrans are enmeshed in pedestrianism.
“I think my neighbor thinks
I’m an unemployed ex-con.
Vandals stole my jack o’lantern.
A squirrel got run over right in front of the house.
And now this.” [Fred Muratori, “WORLD WAR III,” The Iowa Review, Vol. 40, No. 1 (SPRING 2010), p. 78]
