Silent Lonesome Man

When the United Nations voted for the resolution ES-11/1 condemning Russian invasion on 2 March, the outcome was not a surprise: Russian invasion was widely condemned. Moscow only got 4 votes against, while the rest were either neutral/absent or in favour. Among those who voted in favour, a significant portion of countries that advocated the pull out of Russian troops from Ukraine, were from Latin America and the Caribbean. Almost these countries here have expressed unwillingness to join the sanctions against Russia due to specific reasons - but the population here, enraged by Russian supports for autocrats and dictators in here, have used the invasion of Ukraine to fuel their angers - much to the dismay of the Putin's dictatorship in Moscow. The UN solution vote on 2 March 2022. Almost every Latin American countries voted in favour of condemning Russia. Vladimir Putin, to be precise, has little interests in going after Latin America, because of the region's rather different hi...

Afghanistan is on the brink of returning to the reign of terror that the Taliban has imposed after it successfully restored power following a week. The Taliban has restarted its attempts to reintroduce medieval, authoritarian law, in spite of its insistence that it'll be a "different" Taliban. Of course, nobody is foolish enough to buy the Taliban's propaganda, not even it hated neighbour Iran, which has been trying to work and weaken the Taliban at the same time. Yet one country that doesn't get so much "credit" for building this sectarian, terrorist group to fill the power void for so long: Pakistan. In fact, Pakistan plays a major role in making Afghanistan a mess - and also turning the country into a sectarian territory uncontrolled by the authorities, if not to say Pakistan "kill itself" with it. We have never imagined the role of Pakistan in the terror Afghans have been suffering. But it is necessary to understand its background. Pakistan...

Asia is unfortunate and fortunate in many ways. It is the largest inhabited continent in the world, and also with the largest population on the planet, nearly 4-5 billion people in a planet only has 8 billion. Asia is blessed and cursed by the diversity: it is the home to the three biggest religions: Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. Three major ancient civilisations resided in Asia. The continent is also destined to become the world's main economic hub. Yet, at the same time, war, destruction, social discontent and political clashes exist in many forms, causing instabilities. Think of Vietnam as a major example, it suffered nothing but wars, occupation and destruction throughout the entire 20th century. Leave alone Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. And this situation produces vast cultural differences as well as thoughts. This is embedded in many subjects, regardless of its stance. Football isn't an exception, but football is unique for its path to give Asians breath about it, and ...