O J’s Corner

Disorder everywhere


The world is in turmoil, more than ever before. We may think the world was worse in the past, during World War I, Hitler’s annihilation of the Jews, World War II and the like. I believe the situation is still worse. World War III does not take place only because the players and those itching to foment trouble know it for a fact that there would be nothing left on earth. Planet Earth itself would be wiped out, if the nuclear arsenals rip open their armoury of destruction.

This thought got doubly enforced when the world witnessed terrorists’ strike on the US on September 11, 2001 without sparking off a third world war. I believe world leaders have become wiser with the knowledge that no war can be won anymore.
The US is trying to keep up its supremacy sustainable. Russia shows flashes of might, judging by Putin’s ability to ward off US intention to expand NATO by roping in certain former Soviet Union states. China is intent on emerging as one of the superpowers. US is trying to keep India in its kitty, simply to strengthen its bulwark against the namesake Communist regime. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and the like would keep China always engaged.

When nations are vying with each other to tone up their brute force, Nature is playing its cards with justifiable ingenuity. Global warming, natural calamities and famines churn the planet questioning its very survival. Infrastructure development is skyrocketing. Man-made structures would be a plaything for the elements when they are messed up. With all the achievements in space science and the efforts to colonise the galaxies, one has to take note of the fact that the rockets, satellites and space gadgets can be launched from earth only when the climate is conducive. Squalls, thunder showers and a minor fury of nature are sufficient to block lift-off. Things are not easy as science-fiction gazers imagine.

Kashmir, Palestine, Tibet and the like, coupled with Iraq, Iran and the forces arrayed against civilised world are enough to undermine man-made achievements.