Bluff ‘N Stuff

North Korea knows how to play the trumpster. They play their war games and let trump blow off hot words with no action. I don’t really want any action, but I must admit diplomacy hasn’t gone very far in recent years.

North Korea is a stubborn case. It is a small impoverished nation tucked up next to its protector, China, borders on an age-old enemy, South Korea, and has two sea coasts allowing them access to sea lanes to many lands, protectors, and shippers of goods they cannot produce themselves.

North Korea is a poor, seemingly abandoned child, but it is more the love child of enemies and frenemies of the US. And that’s its power base. It has powerful friends on the one hand, and naughty brats on the other hand who have materiel for bomb making and missile production to goad and threaten peace loving peoples.

Actually these ‘protectors’, whether or not they work in collusion (most likely they do to some degree), don’t really worry about the peace loving peoples. They are only concerned with goading powerful nations and building a power base that might yield them some benefits.

Diplomacy has been a guiding principle for generations among global cultures. It has made many disparate parties sit down and learn of one another. It has built working relationships with strange bed partners. It has built a semblance of peace and it continues to do so currently. It just doesn’t yield the big answers and solutions most of us hope for.

Here are some outcomes people of goodwill want to see happen:

·         Peace in the Middle East; Israel becomes a partner and collaborator with its neighbors; all of them finding reasons to maintain peace and share their rich cultures and religions

·         Peace on the Korean Peninsula; North and South Korea become one nation and share the wealth and cultural genius they share

·         China/Russia/America join hands to safeguard peace and tranquility throughout the global community. This is not an ideology. It is a status of mankind living together in peace and goodwill; and harmony

·         South America finds governance of its many separate nations without violence and poverty; criminal activity and energy is converted to positive economic development that supports quality of life for the masses

·         Africa finds a way to meld the many tribes and nation-states into larger, productive nations that deliver quality of life services and benefits to all of their citizens; and world wealth and health is broadly shared throughout the continent

I don’t mention Europe here because it is already at peace. But it has issues to solve as well, as does America.

Isn’t it time the global community earnestly worked toward solving all of these issues? These effect all of mankind, not just one or two nations. We have much work to do. Let’s get to it.

The role of the United Nations is more in demand today than ever. We have squandered much of its assets and energy in fruitless bickering and posturing. That behavior needs to end. If progress is to be made, goodwill must be the dominant power present. To access goodwill all of the super powers need to seek it together. That means China, Russia and America.

If they don’t, there is no one else to turn too but God. Earthly power will cease as consequences too horrible to conjure will occur without Goodwill.

Let’s try to fix this mess. Do not leave this to trump; he has no vision or base of intelligence to work from. This is up to the rest of people of goodwill to do. Now is a good time to take the right steps into the future.

September 22, 2017