My world view has agglutinated

Now and then I ask myself how the world is currently configurated. It is calm on most fronts because the world has agglutinated.

China is fighting Uighurs. Japan is entering a reelection. Obama is finished on his world tour and is focusing on Health Care Reform. Otherwise he is fighting Mexicans. Germany is entering elections and EU is in trouble because of the sluggish reelection of Barroso. Iran is fighting itself and it is refreshing not to read about their supposed nuclear weapons program for a while.

Frankly, I don't expect much to happen on the Palestine/Israel front either. Hillary Clinton is trying to befriend India on a four day tour. She is apparently in charge of China and India that mostly interact with USA via business channels. South America and Africa are lost from the fronts as usual. Indonesia has problems with terrorism. Nothing good comes out from AfPak, so we don't hear much from this corner of the world either. Iraq simmers.

Sweden, i.e., Carl Bildt, is lost in Baku according to his blog. He works on the Eastern Partnership.

If Obama manage to get the Health Care Reform through this year as he advocates on his weekly address, this is perhaps one of the more interesting changes that he would manage to do. Some people think that this is going to make people in the US lazy, I don't. It is going to potentiate the US. It's going to have a profound effect on the trans-Atlantic relationship. Some say that the US is directed towards Asia but I maintain that their most important relation is Europe.