IT is said that evil thrives when good people keep silent. There has been a certain culture that is gradually gaining ground and if left unchecked, could result in a disastrous event that will engulf everybody, regardless of one’s location on earth.
Prior to 1939, certain events were taking place in Germany and although it was distasteful, leaders in other countries of the world, did not pay attention to it and did nothing about it.
Racism and authoritarian rule were being groomed in Germany with its attendant hatred for Jews, being escalated. If the world had spoken against this authoritarian and expansionist mentality of Hitler, with the requisite intensity that it could master, maybe we would not have a history known as the Second World War.
This war affected negatively many countries who were located nowhere near Europe. A similar one has started and this time the perpetrator is called Putin, who also with similar mentality like Hitler, has embarked on a similar trajectory.
Fortunately, the world has started a pushback towards his intentions and let us hope this can stop him and bring peace to the world at large.
A genocide is being perpetrated by a people that the world teamed up to save from extinction by Hitler during the Second World War, the Jews. What the Israeli Army is doing to Palestinians after the October 7 attack by Hamas can only be captured in one word, genocide.
UN personnel are being deliberately targeted, women and children are being murdered, and what is even worrying and insane at the same time is the use of civilians as explosive detecting dogs.
This is happening but the US Government has kept quiet and do not see this as a human rights abuse of gargantuan proportions. They are quick to threaten sanctions on countries who do not accept homosexuality but are not concerned by the war crimes being executed by the Israel Defence Force (IDF) and therefore Israel.
After signing an agreement with Hamas, Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, broke it to further his selfish personal and political agenda. However, should this war escalate, the potential consequences that may be unleashed, is quite huge. This can degenerate into a World War 3.
Remember the effect of COVID-19 on our socio-economic life in our country, even though we first heard of it in China? Again history has shown us that West African people were recruited and sent to war in places like Burma in Asia etc. during the Second World War.
A lot of them died for a war they did not initiate and was far away from them but it affected them. If war engulfs the whole of the Middle East, the likelihood of shipping routes being affected is high as well as the negative economic impact on nations that depend on these routes for their economic activities.
When COVID-19 became a pandemic freight charges tripled overnight. In Ghana this impacted negatively on basic food items like cooking oil, flour etc. In order to contain the pandemic, measures were taken which exacerbated the economies woes of countries such as ours, which were already grappling with economic issues.
We all know the effect of the Russia-Ukraine war on prices of flour and also cooking oil in this country. The war was not initiated by leaders of our country yet it affected us negatively. We must not therefore keep quiet when issues that have the potential of disturbing the peace of the world, is playing out.
Given our national debt situation, let us pray against any external influence that has the potential to hurt our economy.
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By Laud Kissi-Mensah
