Finally we are arriving on to the open ring where the assault is more direct. Dr Mahathir Mohamad must be commended for his courage and steel in squarely choosing to differ with the entire entourage of Barisan Nasional leaders and followers.

He has courageous come out into the open playing field of politics to ask questions that many voting Malaysians have been merely whispering in coffeeshops and warongs.

The former premier is asking very honest but equally probing questions about 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) which all the pro-Najib Abdul Razak camps have shied away from.

Now that the spotlight is zooming in on Rosmah Mansor’s son vis-à-vis reports of the young man’s unprecedented acquisition of properties and businesses worth to the tune of billions of ringgit, the script is almost set to see a Clash of the Titans - the Rosmah vs Dr Mahathir battle.

If the opposition political parties were to keep harping on 1MDB, it can easily be suspected of being anti-government. The outcries in response to the reported stories on 1MDB and its entourage of who’s who can even be dismissed as the work of sour grapes and ‘foreign agents’ out to tarnish the nation.

But when the very man who directed the stage of Malaysian politics stretching well over two decades; one who is also and often seen as a true-blue Malaysian at heart, starts poking the burning embers, do we fault the Najib-Rosmah camp or the doc?

Indeed, truth must prevail. Anyone who chooses to ‘waft their eyes to the contrary’ is as guilty as those who will be charged eventually - with being unpatriotic to Agong, country and people.

For those who blindly threw their support behind the ultimate crook, they, too, must account to Agong, nation and people for robbing this country of its greater future.

Indeed, too, we are at a very critical and defining moment of truth that will either send this nation into the backwaters reeling in corruption and greed or surge it onward to conquer the untamed future.

Let the battle of the titans begin then. And let it be bitter but short and sweet an end result. The ultimate test is: Who is lying? Is it Rosmah? Is it Dr Mahathir?

And hopefully, the patronising political mainstream media will also not be judged with their crime of omission for here comes the battle of the titans.