Like the old country song said...

“…if you’ll give me forty years I’ll turn this rig around…”

Great old song it was, and I only had to change one word to bring it totally up to date. Change yards to years, and then look at the world you’re living in. It’s right there in your face. Gentle reader, the endless run of reboot movies, the endless run of reboot propaganda, these things are not because those who craft the entertainments and the manipulations are out of ideas, not at all. There is a very skilled and subtle intention in play, and in all truth it’s one that I would (grudgingly) have to support until and unless some better idea comes along.

Their intentions are to most literally get the good old cold war going again and split the world neatly in half east to west, US/Nato vs. the Russian Republic in the role of The Soviet Union. They are frantically trying to dial the calendar back to 1980.

It sounds like lunacy, but there is a viable reason for such a campaign. That reason is a desperate attempt to curtail the exponentially rising power of the Corporate Neo-Fascist in their bid for domination. The CNF, who have allied themselves with the nation of China after failing to conquer the United States with their attempted coup by media-manipulation of the Bush administration, the CNF must be stopped if any nation is to survive. The Russians know this, the Americans know this, the remainder of the world knew it before they did.

With the world once again divided along the old lines the CNF will no longer be able to operate on a global scale with utter impunity. Do business east, or do business west, but no longer will they be able to run with the sun around the globe. With the old cold war mentality back in place China is once again returned to the status of enemy to both sides… yes, the Soviet Union had a 65 division army, and 45 of those divisions were parked on the Chinese border assuming they’d have to give a thousand kilometers to stabilize a line against a Chinese attack on their nation.

It is the old, old truism of divide and conquer played on a global scale against a global enemy.  Unless by some miracle the United Nations should step up and establish a global code of law to govern the CNF I don’t see a better strategy on the horizon. And that… is a terribly sad thing.

We really need to make ourselves a note that the next time we try for global peace we’d better make sure there are no monsters lurking under the bed waiting for the old warriors to hang up their swords before making their bid for world domination. We need to remind ourselves not to make the same mistake twice.