Humans Love Violence: Gandhi and the World Economic Forum

Ecumenics without churchs by www.quaccheri.it

01.02.2020 – Robert Burrowes

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As we observe the 72^nd anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas K. Gandhi on 30 January 1948, it is worth reflecting on one simple fact that he did not realize. His efforts to teach humanity that conflict, including violent conflict, could be resolved without violence were based on one fundamentally flawed assumption: that at least some humans were interested in, and committed to, seeking out and using nonviolent strategies for dealing with conflict in each and every context.

Unfortunately, as his own experience taught him and he showed clear signs of realizing towards the end of his life, the fundamental truth is that humans love violence and it is this love of violence that will ensure the extinction of Homo sapiens in the near term absent a profound response that shows no sign of emerging yet. See ‘Human Extinction…

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L’Orso russo ha fame di tecnologia e di prodotti «Made in Italy»

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A proposito della pretesa potenza russa, è bene ricordare che, in miliardi di dollari 2019:

PIL Russia  = 1.576,488

PIL Italia = 2 146,513

Inoltre, sul totale mondiale 2017, il peso % è:

Spese Militari Russia = 3,81

Spese Militari USA = 35,06

Spese Militari NATO = 51,77

Spese Militari NATO e alleati = 67,82

Ciò che distingue la Russia, è quello di essere una Potenza nucleare, nel 2016:

Atomiche Russia = 7300

Atomiche USA = 6970

Atomiche GB = 215

Atomiche Francia = 300

Atomiche Israele = 80 – 400

Atomiche India= 120

Atomiche Pakistan = 130

Atomiche Corea del Nord = 8

Ha una quota importante dell’Export di armi sul totale mondiale 2018 in %:

Russia = 21

USA = 36

Francia = 6,8

Germania 6,4

Cina = 5,2

GB = 4,2

Spagna = 3,2

Israele = 3,1

Italia = 2,3

Per il resto il suo profilo economico industriale è da paese post coloniale…

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