Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Mar 15, 2022 at 13:29
As if it was not bad enough that a world which has struggled with escaping the malicious intents of ambitions of empire seeking to continue the slavery of the ancients continue in the shadows of the various autocracies seen in the world today, the self seeking pride of too many of these bad actors are problematic in that too few others know how to contain them when evil sidestrikes them and innocents have to pay the price. It is part of the repetitive proof that humanity is rife with its own imperfections that too many just cannot resist to take advantage of and too many must die to satiate the blood lust such incomprensible behavior compells.
In case it is not all that evident, the World War Three many are saying they want to avoid by not enraging the monster at large is already here. Pacifism is already lost, just as they found appeasement is not going to work. Contraindictive to Captain Barbossa's invective; this is no ghost story; the reality of global conflict, not the cause of global warming (that's a different cause), is here.
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