The world in crisis, John Mastoroudes ‘returns’, Abeokuta on cusp of history

Segun Odegbami

Before you start wondering about the title of my article today, let me remind all that aside from being a sportsman, I am also an official sports diplomat. So, just relax and go with the flow.

It is Thursday morning. I am watching the news on CNN. The world is in a bad place. There are wars or threats of wars everywhere.

The USA and the Philippines are carrying out one of the largest military drills in the Pacific. North Korea just launched and is testing another one of their unending intercontinental ballistic missiles, creating grave concern for Western democracies.

A massive 3-day military encirclement of Taiwan by China is creating tension in that part of the world, escalating the threat of an invasion that could trigger the next World War between China and the USA.

Russia, India, South Africa, Brazil and China are in a new economic alliance called BRICS. The first meeting in three years is to be held is South Africa, but is being threatened by a legal warrant of arrest against Russia’s Vladimir Putin for crimes related with Russia’s War-without-an-end-in-sight with Ukraine.

Finland has joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO. Sweden is preparing to follow suit, infuriating Russia with a continuous expansion of NATO forces on its borders.

The biggest threat to the world, however, is the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, a conflict that threatens the future of humanity and is causing a tectonic shift in the global World Order, resulting in new military, economic and diplomatic re-alignments, with the global superpowers in selfish pursuit of things that will work for their citizens and benefit their civilisation.

In short, a New World Order is birthing whilst the world sits on a ‘tic-toc’ bomb.

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