The World Turns, As The World Burns

Just for us to repeat the mistakes of the past in a different age, in different contexts, but always with the same consequences.  As I went to bed last night and woke up this morning, I was wondering what I would blog about today.  Well, it looks like that's already been answered for me.  Looks like there's been some crazy goings on in the world over the past few hours.  It wasn't just a dream, a Malaysian Airlines flight has been shot down over Ukrainian airspace, by what looks to be Russian Rebels/Separatists.  MH17 looks to add to the pre-existing tragedy that was MH370.  What makes this worse is that we seem to have a clearer indication of what happened, as opposed to MH370, where we are completely in the dark about what occurred.  That seemed to touch everybody's conscience in some way.  How does a plane just disappear in these times with all of our technology?  I'm sure we'll get our answers some day, but not any time soon.  I wonder what the answer will be?  But moving back to the recent happenings, a flight from Amsterdamn to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over the Ukraine, with about 300 people on board, no survivors have been accounted for.  The Russians are blaming the Ukrainians and the Ukrainians are blaming the Russians.  President Putin has placed the blame on the Ukraine, by saying that airspace above the Ukraine is their responsibility, and it is the Ukraine that has been responsible for re-engaging with separatists in military maneouvres.  What a load of crap, we have damning evidence of Russian intel talking to the separatists about shooting down a plane, and a little while before that, the separatist army showed they had recently acquired surface to air missiles.  They are funded by the Russians, they are backed by the Russians, probably so that there can be a return to a USSR like power of yesteryear.  Putin does nothing to show any remorse here, he is looking more like a psychotic monster with each media engagement, and I'm doing my best to separate the government from the people, but how can his approval be so big across Russia?  Something doesn't make sense. 

But odds are this is a Russian act, and it would most likely be tantamount to an act of war.  So in a conflict that practically no Australians cared about, it has ended up claiming about 27 Australian lives.  Funny how the world works like that.  We are living in an ever smaller world.  What affects your neighbours will affect you too.  But how will the world respond to this?  You can't just go in and bomb someone because you don't like what their military did.  Let's not forget that it's not the first time that an army has shot down a passenger jet.  The Americans and Israelis and Koreans have done it plenty of times, and there was never any retaliation for it, so for there to be one now, is entirely hypocritical.  It's like something out of the pre-amble to a Call of Duty game.  Modern Warfare 5 perhaps?  We need to start paying more attention to these seemingly far away conflicts. 

There are some questions.  What were Russians doing in possession of the surface to air missiles?  Did they know how to fire them?  Why was MH17 flying so low over Ukraine airspace?  Why do planes even fly over warzones?  Who is going to be paying compensation?  Will the Americans man up and actually call this an act of terrorism (which it is), or will they just say it's an accident and refuse to label anyone because we all know that Americans can't consider anyone a terrorist unless they're muslim.  The world edges closer to crisis point.  What do we do?

What's it doing to me?  I don't know, it doesn't tell me what I need to know...or does it?  I'm a little concerned, but there's always something in motion.  I'm left stranded in the dark.  Shine a light on everything you do. 

I read on the Guardian this morning that blogging is referred to as a dying thing.  Most people are on social media preferring to talk about content created by other people.  I guess that's definitely true.  Social media is considered play, while blogging is very niche and could be considered work.  But as pointed out in that article, it is very cathartic and therapeutic.  It's essentially an online diary.  How it became blog and not on-ry is beyond me!  Well it may be dying off as people get older and find less time to post, and children being more focused on social media.  But I'll be here!  I'll be blogging, you can count on that.  Anarchy Inside My Mind will not die until I do.  In terms of the other?  Who knows? 

Yowza, this one is getting somewhere pretty quickly.  2 hours to go! 

It's been good.

Joaquin out.