Hi-Ya Friends! Ke Aloha nô!
Don´t you just love the Hawaian Language? Aloha means both hello and goodbye, and I can´t even bloody begin to tell you all the things Mahalo means. Just Google it, lay back and explode with joy, nô! Or contact Starchild Alias JupiterOnKâui Alias Beloved Astrid, and she´ll set ya right up.
Anyways, an exciting week and a lot of good games for all of ye Dystopians out there !(and Counterdystopians as well)
China is gearing up to take on Japan, the Bundeswehr discovered a Nazi amongst their ranking Officers (Oh no!) and finally Turkey rang the NATO´s alarm bells by viciously retalliating against Syria after yet another disoriented shell accidentally landed in Turkey, only this time it killed a mother with three children. And some guy, whatever, mother, 3 children. Ka-blamm. Can ya say GODBOMB? Hallebaba.
NATO recognized this infraction of the integrity of a member (namely Turkey, in case ye got the alz..alzmeyer? alz...homer?) and assured Turkey of a lot of potential support, you know, should they need it, just give a ring, treaty says and all, North Atlantic and all of that shit.
And, of course, really hoping for this to just pass and go away. Up until now we could at least pretend to want to intervene in Syria, but darn, those sneaky Chinese and Russians wouldn´t let us. But now, it´s a bloody NATO case. What´cha gonna do? We could pull out the old Cyprus card (bear with me) and say (really, bear with me, I´m going somewhere here!) that we do not want to piss off Greece again. Because, you see, when Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974, Greece was already a part of NATO, and we all know that NATO pretended to be on the Toilet the whole time and didn´t offer jackshit to Greece, as Turkey was also a member of NATO.
The whole mess was left to be sorted out by the UN, and if you were on the loo, too, well, then you´ll have to google the rest of the mess on Wikipedia.
So, to cut a long story short, we could try and say that turkey has still got an open debt with NATO and tell'em to sort it out by themselves this time. Or we could argue that Syria isn´t anywhere near the bloody North Atlantic and leave the rest to the lawyers.
Because we really, rea-hee-hee-heely do not want to get involved in that mess down there.
Not because it really is a religious war between different sects of Islam, that´s the case in most of those places , like the Sunnites and the Shiites in Iraq, only this time it´s the Sunnies and the Alewites. Big Woop.
Not because all of us already have enough shit on our hands. That never stopped us. And also not because our other interventions in Afghanistan or Iraq went terribly sideways from day 1. No, it´s simply because there is no oil or other type of resource or any type of strategic advantage to be gained here. To keep it Simple&Stupid, ain't no Dollar to be made, so screw it.
This, by the way, is also, in a Nutshell, what the whole silly China and Japan Biz is all about. It's not about some desolate Rocks in the Pacific, it´s of course about the fishing grounds and the other deep sea resources surrounding them rocks. Quelle surprise, excuse my french. Sela.
And the Nazi in the German Army, currently on duty in Afghanistan? Oh come on, did you really think any thinking, easy going, smooth type of a person would ever voluntarily sign up for the Nutjob of Nutjobs? Of course there´s Nazis in the Army, and not hippies. It starts with the hairdo and ends with the senseless killing of unknown people in far-off places. Who do you think will most likely be attracted to this kind of Job?
Exactly. The Nutjob. And the Nazi, why, he's the Primo of Nutjobs.
Quod erad demonstrandum.
Tune in next week when we will turn Wine into Spaghetti and also prove beyond a doubt that Jesus invented Karate.
Ke Aloha nô, me ka mahalo kâua.
