{"id":18611,"date":"2025-06-23T15:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/?p=18611"},"modified":"2025-06-23T19:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:35:57","slug":"the-contemporary-politics-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/the-contemporary-politics-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"The contemporary politics globe."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18611\" class=\"elementor elementor-18611\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d1ff562 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d1ff562\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-61b14b6\" data-id=\"61b14b6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb0e8c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bb0e8c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>When I was a child I used to blow balloons up and release them without tying them off so I could watch them careening around the room in a random manner driven by their escaping air.<\/h4><h4>It occurred to me recently that the trajectory of those balloons is not unlike what\u2019s happening in global politics today.\u00a0 The war between Israel and Iran, the fighting in Gaza, Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the rise of far right parties in Europe, border fighting between India and Pakistan, China\u2019s rising belligerency and Trump\u2019s bull in a China chop approach to world politics and the resultant rising instability of the world\u2019s economy are just a few of the current destabilising factors that make previous political flashpoints since the end of the second world war seem relatively benign.<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e06f5e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e06f5e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>CARTOON REFERENCE NUMBER:\u00a0 2025-23\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child I used to blow balloons up and release them without tying them off so I could watch them careening around the room in a random manner driven by their escaping air. 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