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s it really the West against the rest? And if it is, who will come out on top?  Our history obviously favors the West as they spent a considerable amount of time trampling all over the East and in doing so plundered its wealth, women and works.

The Germans and the Japanese messed all that up and soon every independent drum could be heard banging, especially in Livingstone'€™s Africa. The British Empire crumbled and out of the woodwork came a new bunch of world leaders that spent time sorting out civil wars, local conflicts, inefficient government, military coups and rampant corruption.

Sixty years on and we reach today, so where are the rest and where is the West?  All of a sudden China has became the world'€™s leading supplier of toilet rolls and also the number-one environmental polluter, a nation rapidly rising out of rampant corruption in the hope that its currency will dominate the world. Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore are all heads down and frantic to become wealthy, money-loving people who spend their entire time hoarding their ill-gotten fortunes like squirrels collecting nuts.

Africa remains in the doldrums despite some obvious progress, and South America is still recovering from the seven-goal thrashing of Brazil by the heavy boots of the Germans. Southeast Asia desperately tries to become one happy family in an Asian mix-match of ideologies, religions and economic goals as Marty Natalegawa, our foreign minister, thinks everything is okay as he is a friend to everybody including the Australian spy ring.

Meanwhile Europe is reportedly sliding into recession and must now face the consequences of the vindictive Russian potato war that threatens famine and no chips for the British. The Great Gonzo in the Kremlin is clearly demonstrating to the Chinese how they should deal with the South China Sea problem as all of us know that you don'€™t mess with nuclear Russia.

As Gonzo growls, the West is now busy planning on how to rid the world of the Islamic State movement as clearly the Saudis cannot be bothered to get off their royal backsides. Apart from that, it'€™s all going to plan, multiculturalism withering, trade sanctions increasing, trust, principles, ethics and integrity dying, inequality growing, poverty flourishing, hypocrisy multiplying, unemployment on the rise but Marty thinks it is all okay.

The good news is that '€œThe Empire Strikes Back'€ project is on the table at Westminster, but with the recent antics of Alex '€œBraveheart'€ Salmond, this has delayed its implementation. But really it'€™s not a case of the West versus the rest as today it is dog-eat-dog, and if you haven'€™t got oil then life is not worth living. It'€™s a crazy world

David Wallis
Medan