The Current Disaster in Ukraine

Many apparently believe that when the Berlin Wall came down back in 1989, and then two years later the USSR imploded, that these events signalled the final end to the 'Cold War'. This is rather strange when you actually consider all that took place after these events, and the current (and rather sad) state of the world today. The 'Cold War' over? It never ended!
In fact, the so-called Doomsday Clock is now closer to midnight than it's EVER been, and maybe I shouldn't, but I DO worry about the war in Ukraine getting worse, and spreading to other nations within Eastern Europe. Need I worry? I think so!
The truth is I don't "support" either side in that, profoundly stupid, war. Both sides (and by that expression, I mean NATO and Russia, not Ukraine and Russia) in the conflict seem determined to make it even worse, and being the politicians they are, they don't give a damn about anyone or anything apart from "saving face"! It's sickening, it truly is.

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SteelHands · 61-69, M

It's called expansionism, greed and the belief that power emanates from the barrel of a gun.

The goddam globalists in China vs the goddam globalists in Russia vs the goddam globalists in the US and Europe vs the goddam ones in the middle east...

That's why wars. None of the leaders are innocent and it's always the civilians that die in this shitty "united nation" concept.

Gloomy · F

@SteelHands "globalists" 😂 Being a global community and international co -operation is not the same as imperialism.
The word you are looking for is imperialism

SteelHands · 61-69, M

@Gloomy I'll thank you not to tell me that I don't know exactly what I'm saying.

Imperialists are absolutely NOT the word I used because pie in the sky, liars who refer to themselves as Globalists are exactly the precise tyrants I was referring to.

Gloomy · F

@SteelHands You use globalist in the conspiracy theory Quanon fashion I see. This usage of the word is rather new and well very silly obviously.
In a globalized world of International trade and connectivity a so called "globalist" is the natural antithesis to nationalists and you built a boogeyman out of it.

Cassie2083

@SteelHands That's true enough, but like 'Gloomy' here above, I think the term "globalist" is both misleading and imprecise.

SteelHands · 61-69, M

@Cassie2083 I'm not misleading. The term applies. They themselves, you know who, called themselves that before they came up with the more recent self names they give themselves.

Stakeholders. Narrative makers. Ordinary people haters.

Cassie2083

@SteelHands "...you know who..." - No, I don't, so tell me.