This Just In: World At War

According to the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), there are just 11 countries in the world that are NOT at war.

The IEP has identified that there are more countries in a state of martial confusion that any time since World War II, where nearly every country in the world was engaged in this conflict.

I found this figure staggering, and yet I’m not truly surprised.

The only ones to achieve the lowest score for all forms of conflict were Switzerland, Japan, Qatar, Mauritius, Uruguay, Chile, Botswana, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Panama and Brazil.

Of course, I’m going to play ‘pile on’ with this figure and suggest that even the 11 ‘neutral’ countries are at war or are funding the global crisis.

The Independent article points out that there are issues with even those countries that are in a state of ‘peace’ are in conflict.  In Brazil and Costa Rica, the level of internal conflict may be the lowest possible – but civilian access to small arms and the likelihood of violent demonstrations are worryingly high.

And Switzerland pretends it’s innocent, but they fuel the fight with massive volumes of arms exports.

And let’s not forget that even the US is in a state of its second Civil War.  Pretend it doesn’t exist, but when the Nazis come in the form of publicly-funded police forces, abusing and beating the public that pays their bills, it’s not long before the plug gets pulled.

Ferguson, Missouri, is the first to descend, but failed cities like Detroit and the hundreds of other small towns that are teetering on bankruptcy will push the world to realize that things are about to get very, very ugly.