The Cold War is freezing, as the Artic melts

The Cold War is freezing, as the Artic melts

 Just when we thought that after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the cold war was over, frictions between the former USSR and the USA are starting to escalade all over the world, spies are replaced by technology, hackers, Anonymous, and whistleblowers like Manning, Snowden or Assange, whose revelations of confidential digital information has created big tension between the two countries, now it’s not only USA spying on Russia for war and conquest purposes, it’s the USA spying all of us, even industries for commercial purposes, its China’s hackers stealing industrials secrets form the USA and chip on computers that spy everyone.

In Latin America, it seems like some parts of the “old left” shut their eyes and ears to the collapse of the USSR and communism, countries like Cuba and Venezuela still apply those old and obsolete socialist models into their economies, distributing misery and limiting the most basic human rights, it’s absurd that after constructing a monarchy over an old dictatorship, Fidel Castro still be seen as the father of “revolution” in Latin America, expanding his empire to Venezuela, Bolivia and even Argentina, today, every hardcore left government bow down their head at Castro, who build a monarchy in Cuba and passed the power to his brother Raul, while the Castro family live like the royal families in Europe, how’s that for equality?

The left in America, just like in Mexico is tore in two parts, old hardcore socialism wreaking havoc in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, with high inflation, shortages of food and basics and denying of human rights, yes, that`s the revolution, on the other side, the moderate left seems to be looking at the future, like in Uruguay, Chile and Brazil, countries that made the big leap towards a better standard of living for their citizen, in Mexico, sadly the left has no head, with one part obsolete and without direction, and the other radical and isolated, dreaming with a hero in the vein of Fidel, Che or Peròn, who will magically save us.   

But USA and Russia still fight all over the world, the world seems to be divided now again in two blocks, the USA and the EU on one side, and Russia and China in the other, when I was a little boy, American cinema taught us that the Russians were the evil ones, the ones who wanted to take over the world in a merciless way, stealing away all properties and transforming us all on a mindless working force, today, we know that’s all bullshit, there are good ones and evil ones on both sides, the USA spy on all of us and funds revolts all over the world, they even backed Al Qaeda on some countries, they back Israel on some others and their thirst for oil is endless, undoubtedly they are backing revolts in Ukraine and Venezuela, as both countries are known for their rich oil resources, all this while Russia government tries to keep their hold on Ukraine, as an strategic way of accessing to their agricultural resources and the Black Sea oil deposits, it’s still the old Conquest game.

Today, Russia is negotiating with countries like Venezuela, Cuba (old pals), Venezuela, Vietnam and Singapur, in order to have military presence in those countries in exchange of economic resources, Venezuela with its oil is an obvious attractive objective for Russia, Nicaragua is an strategic place due to its closeness to the Panama channel and Cuba, like in the old times is the perfect strategic place to keep the USA on close sight, speaking of Venezuela, China is another important agent operating there, as lots of Chinese money has been introduced in the Venezuelan economy.

Yesterday it was capitalism against communism, these days it’s simply two blocks fighting for the last big oil reserves, and surveillance of each other, but tomorrow this sort of latent cold war will get colder, as both the USA and Russia keep their sight on the Artic, an enormous place little explored and believed to have big oil and gas reserves, today countries like Russia, USA, Canada, Norway and Denmark have started a race to reach and conquer the Artic in order to claim those resources their own, a setting similar to the second movie of Star Wars might not be too far, how will these country align in this fight? And don’t forget about Antarctica, because places like Argentina, Australia New Zeland and South Africa may aspire a similar conquest in the future.

In the end, this is a war of countries, of armies, not of people, what’s our choice, how can we the people decide on these matters? Countries want power, but do they care about what people really want? I suspect that the big powers did nothing to stop pollution, they wanted the world to be a warmer place, as the Artic lost big chunks of ice, it’s easier for them to have access to the most remote areas of that region, was it all part of the plan form the beginning?