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By Nirmal P. Acharya

Right now, the world is watching the shooting of US presidential candidate Donald Trump. The bullet wounding Trump’s ear was a thriller worthy of a Hollywood movie.

We can feel that the US is currently contributing its great entertainment value to the world.

From presidential candidate Donald Trump being convicted of a federal criminal by a grand jury to the first televised debate of the presidential campaign to President Joe Biden referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyk Zelensky as Putin at the NATO summit to Trump being shot while giving a speech, and so on, almost every day the US gives big news to the world. The surprising extent of this news has broken through the realm of politics and flown into the realm of Hollywood entertainment.

Yet this Hollywood-style state of entertainment in the US has made some major powers highly nervous.

In response to the US-led NATO global military exercises, the Chinese and Russian mixed fleet recently entered the Alaskan waters, China conducted joint military exercises with Russia in Zhanjiang, Vietnam in Nanning, the United Arab Emirates in Xinjiang, and Belarus on the border between Belarus and Poland, among others.

This series of military moves is enough to pull us from the state of watchful entertainment back to the harsh reality. Yes, the footsteps of World War III are getting closer.

The so-called MCC gift sent by the US is definitely in the service of the national interests and national strategy of the US. To put it bluntly, MCC is a potential strategic weapon of the US. What we need to do is not allow this potential strategic weapon to be activated, so that Nepal will not become a battleground of great power games and become a battlefield of World War III.

However, after the formation of the NC-UML alliance, it seems NC has kept all the portfolios which will protect MCC and facilitate US war bases in Nepal. I hope god grants us ‘the people of Nepal’ the wisdom to see through it and understand that this is ultimately all done to deny the advent of the Asian century and prolong a US-dominated world order. The US wants a divided world and in Nepal’s context a divided nation. It is in the interest of the country and the people of Nepal to avoid becoming the battleground of World War III.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect People’s Review’s editorial stance.