GUYANESE are living in a world that has become dangerous; therefore, every Guyanese needs to take time out from their lives and keep abreast of what is taking place in the rich, developed countries.

I would urge the citizens of this land to take a minute of their time and reflect on three dangerous pathways that will affect (not could but will) Guyana.

Any world war will ruin Guyana because our economy is tied to the countries that will be flattened by a global war. The three disastrous directions the world is heading towards are, firstly, more defence spending in Europe that will dent Europe’s collective economy breeding more extreme right-wing parties that will come to power as in Italy, and these parties will make life more miserable for humanity.

Europe has now agreed to Mr. Trump’s requirement of five percent of GDP for defence spending. Why Europe and Canada want to spend that money to fight an imaginary enemy in the form of Russia?

Since NATO was formed after the Second World War, not even a military helicopter of Russia has come close to any major NATO country. Russia, since 1945, has not had a military spat with any NATO country.

Every cent from an economy that goes to defence spending is at the expense of economic development. Europe isn’t getting richer, in fact, it is far poorer than it was before the Second World War.

It is an old region of the world with diminished space for investment. The Global South is the future of the global economy. Europe, in another five years, will feel the burden of that increased defence expenditure and far right, semi-fascist populist parties are going to promise milk and bread and they will be elected.

The second tragic direction of Europe is the continent feels another cycle of war has come. A meticulous analysis of every leader of all major European countries will reveal that they want to go to war with Russia, that they believe the cycle of another world war has arrived after a lull of 80 years.

European leaders have a genetic predisposition to war, and in the European capitals the anti-Russian heads of European countries are beating the war drums.

The reason why Mr. Trump was treated as a king by European leaders this week at the NATO summit is because Europe knows that the damage and loss of lives will be at a minimum if the USA participates.

The NATO summit is the only confabulation of Western leaders with Mr. Trump since his first term where he was treated as royalty. European leaders were shamelessly sycophantic and the world saw it.

The explanation is simple – try as much as possible to appease Mr. Trump. But European leaders are swimming in a sea of delusions. While they want war, the Republican Party and Trump and their MAGA base will not support the US getting involved in World War III.

Europe has not attacked Russia as yet because it is waiting for the US stamp. That signature isn’t going to come. If there is a World War III, Europe will start it on its own and will have to finish it on its own.

The third sad direction in Europe today is open racism against the Palestinian people. European hypocrisy and democratic deficit have never been more visible to the peoples of the Global South than Europe’s shameless eugenic perspective on civilisation.

European leaders cry to the world each day that Russia is a threat to global peace. But the real danger to international system is Israel, a genetically driven friend of Europe.

Ukrainian lives matter and for this reason Russia must be confronted. But Israel is killing people who the Europeans seem to believe are inferior substance.

So, Russia has no right to attack Ukraine because Ukraine is of Caucasian blood. The Palestinians are of inferior fabric so why should Europe bother with what Israel does.

Germany is at the forefront of the need for Europe to go to war. Germany is at the forefront of European support for Israel. The German Chancellor said last week that Israel is doing a dirty job for Europe that Europe should be grateful for.

He was referring to Israel’s bombing of Iran, a Persian country that Germany believes is of inferior breed to the Jewish people.

What the German Chancellor hid from the world and the entire Western media is that Iran, a country of 90 million people and three quarter million square miles put a sound trashing on Israel, a country of eight thousand square miles and eight million people. After a week of brutal beating by Iran, Israel’s myth of military superiority is gone forever.

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