Through the lens of history

Mhhhmm..I'm going to try to describe my current life situation using historical jargons, so only I will understand the meaning and the code behind them..haha. Since Malaysia's Merdeka is so near, I'll use the example of independence in Southeast Asia.

The concept of independence is there but different Southeast Asian states acquired it differently. Let's pick Indonesia for example where they actually had to fight a war against the Dutch to gain their independence. In the 1960s, Indonesia don't seem to be very well pleased with Malaysia because Malaya did not need to fight or struggle violently in a war for independence. It seemed unfair for them. It was handed on a silver platter and Tunku just flew over the London and amended a couple of points in the Reid Commission report. Thousands of Indonesians died trying to gain independence for their country while Malaysia had it easy with just with a snap. The Philippines had it easy too, and the Americans automatically grant them without the need to fight. Let's just say, I emphatise with the Indonesians' perception after going through certain sequence of events. And if you think that the Indonesians had it the worst, there's another country which had more shit while trying to achieve independence - Vietnam. They've won the war against the French and yet the Geneva convention had been unkind to them. Worst, they had to have the Americans to deal with afterthat. They were the winners in the 1950s but it took another few years of brutal wars before Vietnam is united. Same concept but everyone achieved it differently because each of them received different colonial masters. Some had to die for it but others received it without a drop of blood spilled.

The Cold War started off with a big bang and had some combustible face-off between the two superpowers. There's the Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis which scared the world to its knees. But right now, there's this detente period which I don't know will last for how long. I'm certainly hoping that there'll be a "Reagan-fied" moment where the second phase of Cold War will be ignited and where it's gonna be even more hot than the first phase. Until Reagan appears, the detente not's going to change. So, Reagan, please appear and shake the world again.