IS THIS *IT*? (THE END OF ALL HOPE?)

Is this as far as we come as a species? Endlessly warring with one another? Fractious disputes where nothing gets resolved?

Recriminations and name-calling, assertions of wrong-doing, talking over one another, constantly vying for selfish advantage and perpetual self-interest to the exclusion of all else?

Is this *it*? The culmination of all our ancestors’ sacrifices for the sake of something better?

Is this all we can hope for and it will it be like this in perpetuity now? No hope any longer for something better?

If so then we have come to the age of the woefully mentally challenged in respect of western leadership. The shit appears to have finally risen right to the top of the elite political swamp and the environment of dog-eat-dog that exists there seems to be permanent.

It is a world of PR, not personal integrity. A world of mirages, facades and fakery. A place where the 0.000001% attempt to dupe the 99.99999% into voting for them by any means available except the truth.

It is a western world where another 0.000001%, that of western corporate owners dictate policy for their own advantage and economic gain.

It a western world of disunity, of political warfare between politicians where two sides fight for the perks of power in a four year cycle of virtual dictatorship, puppet-strings pulled by their corporate masters.

Is this what our predecessors on this planet fought and died for? This vile mess of personal ambition, self-interest and greed-driven gameplaying?

Insane warmongers push for attacks and invasions, lobbyists push for greater advantage in selling their masters’ poisonous products.

Fixed minds of hawks push the new status quo of perpetual dispute where dialogue and diplomacy have been totally abandoned.

Theories of all kinds abound, conspiracy theories travel faster than truth, fake news is everywhere along with politically-approved lies.

Confusion and turmoil are everywhere. The pandemic. The wars. The prevalence of propaganda. Mass media lies. Bought journalists. Misinformation. Fake state narratives.

A war on truth is being waged to keep western populations perpetually ignorant of what is being done in their name.

In Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen.

Narratives explicitly designed to confuse and foment further war, hate, destruction and death are broadcast to keep westerners providing their consent.

Western leadership has as its primary goal the maintenance of its ability to dominate the rest of the world. All else is secondary.

And all that is secondary makes up the lifeblood of the hopes and dreams of all who fought for a better world before us. The primary goal negates all else and has brought us to our present misery.

So I say, for all the reasons above, is this *it*? is this the end of all hope for something better?

Not quite...

There are nations that have maintained their integrity and provide the only hope for us now.

Those nations whose leaders have retained their focus and dedication to the well being of their populations.

Only they can bring some sanity to the present situation where the western world has become visibly and indisputably insane.

They have maintained their belief in the sovereignty of nations, their independence of view and their guardianship of the principles of international law in the face of the West’s criminal wars of choice.

The leaders of Russia and China have exemplified the steady qualities of leadership required to bring disputing forces together in dialogue, to maintain states threatened by the West’s proxy forces of extremists, criminals, militants and terrorists. They have guided their nations with probity and insight, honesty and dedication, decent intentions and great wisdom.

They provide our main hope for something better. All is not yet lost. The mad dogs of the West may yet be quarantined. Dialogue and diplomacy may yet resume.

This ISN’T *it*. Not yet. There is hope. It’s flame has flickered and almost died in recent years and we are now almost at its nadir.

But not yet. Not yet.

Hope is rising in the East as it dies in the West.

And a new dawn may yet rise for humankind as that hope rises in ever more hearts.

It isn’t over yet. They say the darkest hour comes just before the dawn...