The adrenalin reading of the world was at an all-time high when US strongman Donald Trump traded war rhetoric with his Iranian counterpart ahead of a promised Armageddon by the former.
It was like hours before the storm of Nagasaki, Japan, when the atomic bomb was going to be dropped to decide the fate of WWII in 1945.
As the hours ticked towards the Eastern Time deadline announced by Donald Trump, the world held her breath. The apprehension of a nuke warfare loading permeated the global ambience.
Nobody knew what is in the Iranian arsenal; the Persians waiting to reap from the element of surprise, their rhetoric was bereft of strategy.
As for Trump, he did not appear to be helping his Generals, as he talked too much about what should be kept out of social media.
As the US exhibited her superior air warfare and Iran responded with missiles against American interests in the neighbourhood and the killer drones got busy, stocks fell and oil prices rose sharply, exposing the vulnerability of the world economy.
A threat by Trump to obliterate and return to the Stone Age a 2,500-year civilisation to which the world owes so much in knowledge and diplomacy sounds imbecile and perhaps envy-driven.
The Persian civilisation which predates the West’s produced outstanding men of history such as Cyrus the Great, his Empire stretching from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. He was also the originator of the Cylinder, the first known human rights charter in the world.
We have not forgotten Al-Khwarizmi (c. 780-850 CE) the originator of Algebra who introduced the methods of solving equations, advanced computation and many others.
The Persians certainly do not belong to the Stone Age to which President Trump promised returning them to.
For the first time, many Ghanaians followed the unfolding idiosyncrasies of geopolitics and the impact on their country’s economy, disregarding therefore the mischievous theory that bombs dropped in Ukraine should not impact the local economy, Ghana being thousands of miles away from the theatre of war.
As we write, the cost of fuel like elsewhere in the world has appreciated, a reality which impacts the cost of living of the citizens, leaving government to grope for solutions to the economic volatilities.
We are therefore not immune to global turbulences such as the Iran and US/Israel war, as we are a part of the global setting.
Now the tune has changed because the then opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is in government and Ghanaians understand more than ever before what propaganda in politics is all about.
Although for now the guns have gone silent and the Strait of Hormuz will be opened to all traffic, including the enemies of Iran as part of the game-changing deal, flip-flopping Commander-in-Chief of the US cannot be trusted to keep his side of the deal.
Let government be mindful about this reality and think about contingency arrangements should a decision to seize Kharg Island and the Strait of Hormuz be attempted.
For now, even as each side claims victory, the country which was able to stand the might of the strongest nation on earth deserves applause for putting up such a stoic resilience even as advanced US bombers made their deadly sorties on the Iranian airspace.
A world without war is better than one with threats of obliteration and return to the Stone Age by the more powerful.