If Part 1 focused on failures closer to home, 2025 also exposed something far broader: a collapse of moral clarity across Western institutions, media, and international bodies. Nowhere was this more visible than in the way conflict, truth, and accountability were handled beyond Australia’s borders.
This second instalment looks outward — at geopolitics, global organisations, and the media narratives that increasingly distort rather than inform.
Gaza, Israel, and the Inversion of Morality
How Media Bias on Gaza Fuelled Outrage
Coverage of the Gaza conflict crossed from sympathy into distortion. False claims were repeated, context was stripped away, and responsibility was inverted — with Israel routinely blamed for defending itself while Hamas atrocities were minimised or excused.
🔗 https://www.grappyssoapbox.com/2025/12/how-media-bias-on-gaza-fueled-outrage.html
Peace in Gaza, Rage in the West — What Does That Tell You?
When ceasefires brought relief to civilians in Gaza, Western streets remained filled with angry demonstrations. This post asked the uncomfortable question: if peace wasn’t the goal, what was? The answer pointed to ideology, not humanitarian concern.
https://www.grappyssoapbox.com/2025/10/peace-in-gaza-rage-in-west-what-does.html
The Price of Tolerating the Intolerant
Western democracies have increasingly excused behaviour they would once have condemned outright — intimidation, glorification of terror, and open hatred — all in the name of tolerance. This post argued that tolerance without boundaries becomes self-destruction.
https://www.grappyssoapbox.com/2025/10/the-price-of-tolerating-intolerant.html
The Media: From Watchdog to Activist
Time to Bring the Media to Account for Deliberate Mistruths
Journalistic standards did not merely slip in 2025 — they collapsed. From Gaza to domestic politics, falsehoods were amplified with little correction or consequence. This post called for accountability where none currently exists.
🔗 https://www.grappyssoapbox.com/2025/10/time-to-bring-media-to-account-for.html
International Institutions Lose the Plot
Why Democracies Should Stop Bankrolling the UN Circus
Once intended as a guardian of peace and human rights, the UN has increasingly become a shield for tyrannies and terror groups. Democracies continue to fund it while being routinely condemned by it — a relationship overdue for reassessment.
🔗 https://www.grappyssoapbox.com/2025/10/why-democracies-should-stop-bankrolling.html
A World That Has Lost Its Bearings
Across all these issues runs the same thread: moral inversion. Democracies apologise for defending themselves. Terrorists are contextualised. Institutions designed to uphold truth and justice now distort both.
In 2025, it became harder to deny that many of the structures meant to protect liberal societies are now actively undermining them.
Coming Next
Part 3 will shift focus again — away from politics and conflict, and toward ideas, science, and technology. From breakthroughs in medicine to the rise of humanoid robots, it will examine the forces reshaping our future — often faster than our leaders are prepared to admit.
2025 wasn’t just a year of crises.
It was a year of revelation.
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