Further to our last back on the 8th of April , we are now entering the dire straits…
Here we go:
Alongside the Death of Diplomacy – and to an extent, of elements of Democracy – has come the birth of, let us call it, drone-ocracy. Stealthily-launched drones are a deadly nightmare in the great and small theatres of war, making a mockery of supposed ceasefires. Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and now Kashmir are among victim-territories of this ghastly modern form of weaponry, often supporting substantial fire-power.
The mercy is that India and Pakistan have not deployed their respective nuclear arsenals against one another. Both sides though accused each other of breaching a heralded ceasefire said to have been brokered by the US secretary of state Marco Rubio and vice-president JD Vance. This expedient did not of course come anywhere near to resolving the decades-long animosity over the status of Indian-administered Kashmir. Residents living in the conflict areas are understandably sceptical over ceasefire “deals” which are paper-thin.
The failure of attempts to produce a genuine ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas seems to bode ill for any truce elsewhere including Russia/Ukraine or on the sore question of the Trump tariffs. A commentator in the Guardian newspaper this week derided talks that led to a deal between the US and the UK modifying new levies as “hostage negotiations.”
The current flare-up in South Asia has raised a further disturbing prospect, that of “water wars,” India having suspended the treaty over the distribution of waters from the Indus River. The world continues to see numerous disputes over water resources which are horrendously difficult to resolve.
N.B. I was comparing “ceasefire” of the diplomats and politicians with the word “equals” were mathematicians can give many different meanings as in 2+2=4, what does the “=” means ? eh? We end with Truth without Proof… Mathematicians are an old profession but now we have computers and in my humble view it’s very difficult to change mathematicians. One has to make the computer systems better, correct? See how you interpret this with Diplomacy, one of the oldest professions…
Did I hear you say “isomorphism” ? Await your comments.
