Gort! Klaatu Barada …Help!

The number of existential threats facing us today is larger than any one individual nation state can unilaterally fix without the help of the other citizens of the planet. Global warming, extinction events, and energy issues need to be mitigated right now, so, naturally, we have a psychopath conducting a brutal war of territorial conquest in the tradition of 19th century European colonialism. That’s just great. The rest of the planet will be held hostage to this madman until he gets what he thinks he wants, then he will want something else. For their own selfish reasons, the other citizen nations of the world will not stop him, and when they have mollified the bastard sufficiently, another strongman somewhere else who will initiate yet another round of hand-wringing paralysis from the industrial nations. Where is the United Nations? It might be time to re-imagine that institution as an arbiter ..and failing arbitration, as an enforcer of basic international rules. The world needs an indepencent, grown-up adult to step into Russia, take Vladamir Putin’s nuclear weapons away from him, throw his troops out of Ukraine, and give him the spanking he richly deserves.