Statistical commoditization
of human lives - from the Indian poverty Lines to the innocent human lives
killed and mutilated in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Somalia,
Congo (DPR), Sudan, Nigeria and many other African and Asian countries and
elsewhere - to the recently spiraled moments of crisis in Gaza, in Ukraine and
the Flight MH17 crash after taking a sophisticated missile hit at 30,000 feet
in – loss of human lives - always manipulated and used to further self-serving
agendas – of dictators, of global superpowers.
Manipulative wisdom of statistics
to alter the scale and aftermath of human lives killed or taken away - lives
reduced to numbers - my count, your count, their count and the loss of haves and
have-nots - the deepening culture of 'let go' in the global geopolitics - don't
be surprised if it gives us the next Peace Nobel Laureate – recognizing the
culture of non-interventionism in the name of global order even if it means
hundreds of thousands killed every year in civil wars, in terror strikes and in
religious/sectarian divides.
And if we talk of the big powers,
the nations that affect and effect the balance of the global order the most,
all are to share the blame – each one is culpable – because each one has manipulated
and the circumstances and geopolitical factors to gain upper hand over the
others – in history – and in modern times - MH17 and Ukraine are Russian designs
– Bashar Al-Assad’s Syria of the day is Russian effect – the origin of the Afghanistan
is USSR – the oil politics of the global powers has given the world the worst
of the dictators from the oil rich Arabian and Middle East countries - Ukraine
crisis is because the powerful European nations (heavily dependent on Russia for
energy needs) preferred not to act tough on Russia - rich Islamic nations are
the mainstay of the financial backbone of the terrorism in the name of Jihad -
and the failure of the US administration in stopping Israel from launching the
recent drive of the Gaza offensive.
Imperialism and global dominance
have been in-built in the power projection styles of the major powers – can the
non-interventionism led by Barack Obama change it?
It will be wild to guess about
because Obama’s non-interventionism sounds more of compelled from an ‘indifferent
attitude’ – because his non-intervention (and of US and its allies, who could
not, as the US did not) has cost humanity countless lives and the toll is
increasing every day – in the global crisis hotbeds of Asia, Africa and Middle
East – Israel cannot move ahead with its Gaza offensive if the US says a firm
no, if Mr. Obama puts his weight behind in restricting Israel – and some US
allies have strongly differed from the stand taken by Mr. Obama in such cases (as
France on action in Syria) – also, Mr. Obama is voicing his advice to the
European nations to act tough on Russia on the MH17 issue in clearer terms.
In contemporary times, its pure
global geopolitics of self-interests – and every crisis is seen from as many
angles as the stakeholders involved deem fit to see – be it the nature
inflicted ones with countries banning the international aid and rescue worker
to have access to victims – or be it man-made ones like the MH17 mid-air
missile hit – the protagonists, the antagonists, the viewers and the advocates –
all scramble to see what suits their purposes the most – statistically
amplifying or downplaying the scale and the aftermath.