Firing for a Ceasefire

 

The mean streets of geostrategic dominance. A racily written drama of power game where the plot skittles forward with unusual regression in human values. Crunching, wacky, tantalizing game of attrition. A soulless testimony to what we call progress. Incurably slanderous.

Many would naturally say that Trump is super-bright, idiosyncratic, staunch white supremacist. Hounded by the progressive intellectuals, the American president means business though. And ceasefire also. The latter as a means to the former. As a poetic man, I would always prefer bloodless business wars rather than bloodied battlefields with rotting human corpses.

Ceasefire is a lovely term. With ceasefire, India, Pakistan and Trump all claimed victories in their own terms. Though it’s outright funny how can Pakistan claim any type of victory using any yardstick in a confrontation.

With ceasefire, Israel, Iran and Trump again claimed their own versions of victories.

Let’s hope there comes a day when the same word ‘ceasefire’ allows Russia, Ukraine and Trump to claim their share of victories.

In the ceasefire equation, it’s clearly visible that Trump is a nice catalyst agent. A powerful ceasefire agent he is.

He claimed that he used trade to facilitate the Indo-Pak ceasefire. He used B-2 bombers to bring about Iran-Israel ceasefire. Now the onus is on him to decide what catalyst role does he play to bring about Russia-Ukraine ceasefire. If he does it, I think he will be a very strong contender for the Nobel peace prize. There is always the next round of noble nominations Mr. President.

Above all, let’s celebrate this ceasefire between Iran and Israel. After all, millions of common Israelis and Iranians, who have no role in causing this war, can go to sleep peacefully after many harrowing nights.

Furthermore, let’s pray for peace in Gaza as well. The ‘two-state solution’ is the best option. Let there be a safe and strong Israel. Let there be a Palestine state. And let Iran remove the Israel-annihilation clause from its state policy. Just three simple one-liners in foreign policy and millions will sleep peacefully unafraid of bombs and bullets.