Ugh, Politics. This is the one topic that I mostly avoid during my stint as a blog writer, especially if an international incident spawned over the Internet. I have to say that personally, I have a slight paranoia and a sense of distrust to those who call themselves “politicians,” with most of them who gained the trust from the people are yet to be dissected of their backgrounds and their ideologies. Without dismissing those who serve with honor and integrity, I have to say that these days, this supposed “People’s Representatives” are more about meaningless words and focusing to their own agenda rather than actually be useful to the masses.
Yes, we are only 6 days into the year of 2020, but already we are shocked with the news of the death of Iranian Military General Qasem Soleimani, allegedly because of an drone strike in Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad, Iraq carried out by the United States Military Forces by the order of the ever controversial President Donald Trump, whom at the same time is currently facing impeachment by the US Senate. President Trump claimed that the reason behind Soleimani’s demise is to upheld peace, but in reality, The Iranian-American relation is currently on its lowest point, with the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s intentions to resume the Iranian Nuclear Program, effectively breaking the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) 2015 initiated by President Obama with Iran, France, England, Germany, China, Russia and The European Union. Khamenei also stated that he vowed to avenge the death of General Soleimani by striking major points of the American territory. Trump responded with equal amount of threat, claiming that 52 Iranian sites will be targeted if the Iranian military carried out its “retaliation. “
In the aftermath of the news, the hashtag #WorldWar3 trended across social media platforms, fearing that if the tension escalated between Teheran and Washington, D.C, the third world war could start. Every nation across the world are doing the best they could to defuse the situation, while at the same time alerting their overseas citizens resided in Iran. World citizen have a strong reason of the scale of devastation if there is going to be a third world war, while the first two wars are about the manpower and advanced weaponry, if there is a world war 3, nuclear weapons could be a prime option, since both the US and The Islamic Republic of Iran has their own nuclear programs. The already heating situations can be further escalated if some of the allies both to the US and Iran wage war against each other, like Israel. Indonesia meanwhile being a neutral party, advised both countries to hold back.
On the other hand, the threat of World War 3 is treated as a mere laughingstock with memes across all platforms of social media. On Twitter, for instance, you can find a magnitude amount of memes referencing #worldwar3, and most of them being satirical memes in the form trending memes like Baby Yoda, “Me and The Bois” meme stating that they are “being drafted” to fight in the war, among others. They are also poke fun of other “sworn enemies” of America like North Korea and China. Other memes are directed to Trump, mainly how a “soon-to-be impeached president started World War 3.”
Despite all the laughs, I have to stress this more than anything else: War is not a game, nor it is something to make fun of. We have history of fighting amongst ourselves, and the results are not pretty either. We all know the infamous Adolf Hitler, that same man who responsible of a possible ethnic cleansing of Jewish Germans (Holocaust), or one Benito Mussolini, an Italian plague that side with the Axis during World War2. And don’t ever forget a certain radical Islamic group ISIS, who ran rampant over Iraq and Syria, robbing people of their homes and their lives, and children of their futures. And I am sure that we can all agree about the aftermath of these wars currently raging around the globe. Not only loss of innocent lives, the world economy can take a major hit as the result of these wars. And the effects are no jokes either. Food prices will raise to a significantly worrying levels, and at the same time, those who are affected could be suffering from starvation as well as being detainees of war if all countries involved decided to adopt the “no prisoner” policies.
In the end, as one of roughly 7 billion citizens of the world, I am going to ask one thing, and one thing only to the world leaders. Please restrain yourselves. There is no need for another world war if the first two is already painful enough. All we want is peace and serenity, and also for everyone across the world to stand together against hate and segregation. And for both President trump and Ayatollah Khamenei, please, don’t proceed with your threats, especially for Trump. I know that you are currently facing impeachment, but don’t take your frustrations towards innocent Iranians, now that you have killed one, coincidentally a military general of all people. You wanted to upheld peace, yet you do it by starting a war that is not remotely necessary for world stability. No more wars, no more pain, no more suffering. Let’s be one big happy family, regardless of your personal backgrounds.
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