Failure Of Leadership

For far too long Presidential leadership has been stoking the flames of armed aggression. The economies of the industrial nations have long since been solely dependent on the fossil fuel conglomerates. Since the beginning of the 21st century humanity has developed the technologies that would transform our energy needs away from oil and the other fossil fuels. It is these fossil fuels that continue to cause irreversible damage to our environment and pitted nations against each other. The failure of leadership from the global community has now pushed Russia to use armed aggression to keep their energy lifelines well intact.  

Had the leaders of the United States and the rest of the industrialized world been more in tune with the scientific technological advances made in green energy development and started to put in place the necessary steps to ensure a smooth transfer of current energy consumption to one of green energy we would not only stop the enormous travesties that are now taking place but would be a giant step in reducing the carbon emissions that are having devastating consequences all over the globe.

When nations are solely dependent for their energy needs on one or more sources of fossil fuels to support their economies has now ushered in many of the tempests we are seeing today. The Ukraine and Russia crisis is one such pressure cooker that could have been avoided. For more than a decade European nations have been buying Russian oil. Now, when the United States have been dependent on oil imports from Russia, we have inadvertently supplied the financial resources that have contributed the current Russian Ukraine crisis. 

The United States should have realized back in 2008 Russia’s intentions that have now cumulated into the current military action in Ukraine. Yet the failure of leadership prevailed and are now in a quandary of how to react other than ushering in more military responses. It has always been the failure of leadership for the past 60 years of past and present Administrations that have led to so many travesties. The loss of millions of lives, the creation of oligarchy rule including the US, the great wealth disparity in societies and the continued consumption of fossil fuels have now created the tempests the world is facing today.

Now is the time to access the cold reality of what armed aggression and armed responses actually do to societies, the environment and a host of other unimageable suffering whenever there are violent atrocities committed by both the aggressor and the responses in retaliation. Had we had the leadership to put in place the proper progressions in converting from fossil fuels into renewable green energy sources many of the world’s economies would be far better off than we are today. 

Is it too late to remember the warning that General MacArthur was quoted at the surrender of Japan in 1945? For, if we all fail to realize what we are actually doing today the world that we know will quickly not face away but be obliterated in a blink of an eye.