It is not the West that is accelerating momentum towards war, but Russia and China.

It is Russia that invaded Ukraine, not Germany or the USA. It is Russia that threatens to use nuclear weapons. It is Russia that is committing appalling war crimes and targeting civilian homes and infrastructure. The West is – rather tentatively and belatedly – helping Ukraine to defend itself against these vicious and illegal acts, because it recognises that Russia’s aggression cannot and should not be tolerated, and that Russia will not stop at Ukraine if it is successful.

China has demonstrated that it is not willing to abide by international law and cannot be trusted to keep its word. Its expansion in the South China sea is illegal and a threat to its neighbours’ sovereignty. Its attempts to bully Australia into silencing criticism of its regime by illegal trade sanctions demonstrate that it is an untrustworthy trading partner and has no commitment to international trade norms and rules. Every exporting business in Australia should take note. It cannot be trusted.

China reneged on its commitment to protect human rights and the rule of law in Hong Kong, and is increasingly signalling its willingness to invade Taiwan and overthrow its democracy. It is this threat – conveniently not mention in Lim’s article – that prompted General Minihan (not Munihan) to warn that war might happen as soon as 2025.

Minihan said “I hope I am wrong”. I hope he is too. But the past few years have been a wake-up call for the West. If we want to preserve our values and freedoms, we may have to fight for them.

A modern nuclear war would not be a doomsday end of humanity scenario.
Yes, millions would die, which could be any of us, but not billions.

This is due to the rational statistical nuclear strategies based on mathematical game theory, where superpowers will avoid launching nuclear missiles unconditionally at preset targets, but instead only issue a batch of random and automatic, rather small, probabilities of launching nuclear missiles at random enemy targets. This mathematical model shows how the result will produce only limited damage.

It is Russia that invaded Ukraine, not Germany or the USA.
Rhian,
That invasion could be the consquence of the pushing by Germany & the USA !

Ah yes, of course.

Germany is responsible for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The bombings of Chechnya and Aleppo were entirely legal and justified - in fact, maybe Germany was responsible for those, too.

Navalny clearly deserved to imprisoned for embezzlement and contempt of court, and Putin had nothing to do with his being poisoned.

Zelensky is a Nazi.

And the USA just shot down an innocent civilian airship that strayed off course.

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It is the mark of modern-day “spin dictators” that they control their populations with misinformation and distortions while mimicking but in fact destroying the forms of democracy, free speech and the rule of law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_Dictators

It is understandable that the citizens of countries such as Russia should parrot such dishonest propaganda because they have no access to independent, accurate information and analysis, and because the consequences of challenging the official line can be dreadful. We have no such excuse.

We have no such excuse.
Rhian,
Yet still so many are kept just as ignorant with the indoctrination practises of the Woke !

Zelensky is a Nazi.
Rhian,
I recall reading that quite a number of high-ranking Nazis were Jewish in Adi's days !