Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. At least April is
almost over, and, hopefully, the lockdown will not last for the entirety of May
as well. People are getting fed-up with the lockdown/quarantine/(self-)isolation/etc.
all over the world, and things are changing, because humans are political
animals, and a civil uprising, (cough, Russia in 1917, cough), is disliked by
everyone. No one knows what will go on during the rest of April, let alone next
month, just look at comrade Kim-
Pause. No one knows still what has happened to North Korea’s
leader – is he still alive or is he dead? By ‘alive’ I mean ‘alive, but
comatose’. His sister is set to inherit, (unless China interferes or
something), the North Korean throne, (or whatever it is called), and the rest
of North Korea’s leadership isn’t too thrilled about it, but what can you do?
Surrender to China, or to U.S. (via one of its local proxies)? Yeah, there is a
proverb about choosing between rotting apples for a reason-
Pause. Yes, the Donald has also done his share, by messing
the relationship between the U.S., Japan, and South Korea in the first four
years of his presidency, and that was before the COVID-19. Now, with everything
on the lockdown, now so is not the time for risky political overtures at all.
Not even the Donald himself is doing them, and speaking of him…
Well, rather, I am speaking of the election-2020. By
everything proper, Sanders should have won, but, a), not even Democrats
themselves want Sanders to win (because reasons), and b), they do not want to
win elections-2020 period, especially now, with COVID-19 on the loose. Therefore,
instead, they got Biden to be their leader, and he is going to safely lose to
the Donald, because the Republicans do not want Biden to win; they do not want
the Democrats to win because obvious reasons, and unless the Donald does
something exceptionally stupid, he is going to win.
...Yes, it is not too out there to presume that he might
just decide to quit and not participate in the elections-2020, saying that he had
4 years of being on the very top of the U.S. society is enough for him. Pause.
Yes, this is possible, (and might be the best way out of
this way for him, and for the rest of the U.S.A., cough), but not very likely
because the Donald is clearly expecting to extract everything from his
presidency to the max. What this will amount to in real life, to the American
society and beyond, is anyone’s guess. Anything else?
Well, I wanted to talk about something different after my
latest original story, regarding the whales and co., but so far, I got nothing.
I mean, there is the so-called X-ray tetra, a semi-obscure semi-familiar
aquarium fish from South America, but it is too specialized a topic to talk
about – my blog is not about the aquarium fishes, sadly.
On the other hand, what else there is to talk about? How
COVID-19 will destroy globalization? It will not. It just will not be as utopic
as it was during the late 1990s and the early 2000s at best, but that is the
U.S. fault. It tried its’ best to make a utopia, and it has failed, as all
utopias do, once they pass the bonds of realism. COVID-19 put everything on
hold, metaphorically speaking, on the international level, and within the
national level everything is breaking down and everyone is dying-
Okay, this is my bad. Not everyone is dying, thank God, but
the internal infrastructures of many countries is also in trouble and as such,
any international overtures are not very likely, alas. The proverbs say – since
we have mentioned them earlier – that nothing is eternal under the sun,
everything must end, and so the American World, Pax Americana, must end us
well, no matter how good it promised to be, and how promising its’ run had
been. The American Dream will endure, though, because dreams always do, and
they always come back. That is why they are dreams.
…Well, this is it for now, I reckon. See you all soon!
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