Imran Bajwa
Age old tradition of Duels between TWO noble commanders was considered a godly & Heroic Act for centuries.
It was an established practice in all global civilizations.
These used to be public display of chivalry, valor, honor and believes of both adversaries.
Duels were a way to settle disputes & avoid Wars.
That was “His-Story” until last century.
Now humans have moved to AI based unmanned drones capable of multiple killings thru mouse clicks. An obvious zenith of humanity thus far.
And they are getting ready to launch AI based robot soldiers and machine combat systems without any Human Control.
Intelligently they call it LAWS… Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems.
These weapons can detect, trace & destroy without any Human command.
Imagine what if your supposed enemy or a high school kid hacks into your Military command AI Network, Apocalypse.
Behold, don’t forget over twelve Thousand Nuclear bombs, quarter of which are stand-by on High Alert since 1950’s awaiting another Human Error.
Besides deadly nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki United States conducted 1,054 nuclear tests by official count between 1945- 1992. This includes 216 atmospheric, underwater, and space tests and 815 underground tests.
Interestingly, all nine nuclear states are still expanding their nuclear programmes as per SIPRI, a global armaments research institute in Sweden. So much for all nuclear disarmament treaties of cold war era.
These nuclear fireworks are enough to annihilate life on earth many times over.
As if all of this wasn’t enough Humans rape of Nature and her consequent wrath revenge through daily global climate disasters all across the Globe is staring us in the eyes.
Half of the humanity, mostly global south would struggle to survive in their habitats within a decade and quarter of species necessary for a balanced ecosystem will extinct as per recent climate researches.
That’s the ideal & safe world we exist in.
Anyone watching global media will attest that only active wars, Genocide and open WWIII threats by two divided blocks in the world are daily headlines.
We saw dozens of countries bleeding on the whims and proxies of world and regional powers in front of our eyes since 2001.
Currently over 110 armed conflicts are active in over 60 countries as per Geneva Academy bolstered & fiddled by under 100 Big boys leading the Global security capitals for their petty economic and geopolitical interests.
Ukraine and Sudan are bruising with no immediate end in sight. Genocide in Gaza is ruthless inhuman and unstoppable.
Most of Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia are destabilized as of today.
These wars have killed over six million humans and left over 60 million wounded, and counting.
US spent over 8 trillion dollars all borrowed from Banks and has, so far, paid over one trillion dollars interest payments since 9/11 as per Warton School of Research in US.
That makes war budget of over One billion dollars EVERYDAY since the last 20 years.
Perhaps President Trump needs to plug this leak as well.
Unfortunately, the world is broiling upside down already with wars, conflicts, terrorism, droughts, floods, wildfires, cyclones, hurricanes and more.
Now due to Trump’s policies the world is once again dividing into two clear security blocks led by US & China.
When Xi finally roared that the world has to choose between War & Peace, Trump choose to change the name of Dept of Defense to Dept of War and Pete Hegseth is now Secretary of War in USA.
Factcheck, only last week China gathered 26 heads of states in Beijing Military power show under its Block from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America while President Macron announced the support of 26 countries in Ukraine war against Russia.
World’s precious resources are once again shifting from Development to Armaments.
Five percent of European GDP is committed for the War for the first time since NATO formation. Soldiers and guns are, once again, visible across Europe after Cold War time.
War Drums are getting Louder apparently for egoistic reasons at a time when our Globe is boiling towards slow extinction.
Instead of rushing to stabilize the nature, uplift half of humanity living in poverty and continuous and inclusive Global Research in all fields and improving lives, Humans are once again surrendering to their pre-programmed memory of perceived threats & fears.
It’s not only the research in US campuses that Trump is after, but He has also cut NASA satellites including one of the only reliable space data of GHG gases and their volumes.
The Black Logic appears to be that since no one will measure the GHG gases so there will not be any accountability for future emissions.
The Annual cost on these GHG focused satellites is a paltry 40 million dollars per year. Its mere half a percentage point of NASA total Budget.
Such is the seriousness of Americans towards our collective Habitat.
It’s Time for a Duel between Trump & Xi , in which interpreters will be their spears. Logical strategy and mutual respect and understanding must pierce thru both.
This Pool can then be extended to all Global Stakeholders.
But then the Callousness of powerful global leaders, especially US, on the genocide in Gaza is a visible proof that they don’t care about the whole world as well.
God Save us All.
The writer is an APNS award winning Investigative Journalist.