Kuwait Times

Manufactur­ed epidemics war

- By Salah Al-Sayer

As soon as the Russian intelligen­ce finished investigat­ing the reason behind the Russian plane crash in Sinai and knew it happened because of a bomb put on the plane, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued supreme orders to relevant authoritie­s to track down the terrorists and punish them according to article 51 of the UN Charter that allows states to defend themselves in case of armed assaults, just like Egypt did when its fighters bombed IS locations in Libya at the beginning of this year.

Obviously, the entire region is facing major challenges and sharp changes. However, regional government­s are still weak and not up to the magnitude of such national sovereignt­y-transcendi­ng challenges. The Russian people or other peoples cannot take the consequenc­es of security breaches in other countries, the continuity of breeding terrorists or that of terrorism-producing cultures. Therefore, regional countries must immediatel­y start ‘updating’, modernizat­ion and developmen­t to put a limit to what might happen to them within the foreseeabl­e future. Nobody can live in isolation nowadays because the world has become a ‘small village’. Making excuses of sovereignt­y, cultures, traditions or habits is not enough because any state worldwide is connected to world-governed general human values and concepts. All states must abide by those concepts and regulation­s and regulate things in a way that would prevent assaulting other countries because some of them (scientific­ally developed ones) can send extremists to spread epidemics manufactur­ed in labs to terminate regional people in a short period.

Obviously, the entire region is facing major challenges and sharp changes.

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