[NUUSMAX] Wars, rumors of wars, famine, and pestilence. Not that we should tempt fate, but it seems giant earthquakes are the only thing left to fulfill ancient prophesy.
It is almost cliché today to say that these are indeed biblical times. We were taught that the four horsemen of the apocalypse would be our sign.
Amidst a backdrop of unending crises here and abroad where each shockwave is worse than the last, and still, Las Vegas oddsmakers wouldn’t peg a chance of Armageddon at more than 2%.
If one had to identify today’s potential four horsemen, one could argue that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea would be burnished into each saddle. Their loathing of the system and resentment, based on ill-defined grievances has brought them in league with each other, despite having such disparate cultures.
These horses are dragging us all to World War III. With today’s killing technology, mankind’s existence could well be hanging in the balance.
The riders, despotic autocrats, are unified by a deep hatred of the current world order, as led, since World War II, by the United States and the Bretton Woods construct.
Recently, Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed the U.S. position to uphold and enforce what he called the "rules-based" order as he attempted to clarify the U.S. policy towards an increasingly aggressive China. In turn, China wasted no time attacking the secretary who barely had time to mention human rights abuses and incursions into Taiwan airspace. |