Buy some booze and head out friend, Tennessee out in the boonies is really nice. Only Kentucky in the hollers is better, oxy/heroin is trying to make that change..
Thanks. I think I will at that.
Small PL... at the company I work at, even as this all goes down, our satellite offices in Europe are losing their shit about when they can return from remote work and come back to work in-office.
I'm fighting an impulse to tell them you know what? Hug your kids and your spouse, and do something nice with them instead of worrying about this. Take some of that vacation time. There's now a non-zero chance that the office won't be there in a few weeks and even if it is, sanctions will lead us to shutter those offices, even if they don't get nuked.
But, priorities, am I right? The VP what runs that office has been totally emasculated by the pandemic since he's unable to lord over his vassal subjects and show off to visitors how all this is his and they work for him and he's really been suffering without a daily trip to the office to feel powerful so, there you go.
There is just no way to know anymore. There is no adult leadership in any of the countries involved. You look at the line up:
- Joe Biden
- Macron
- Justin Trudeau
- Boris Johnson
- Olaf Scholz
These are all stupid, incapable people. Meantime the western media is building up a literal war frenzy in a completely irresponsible way. And that kind of thing
can create a momentum of its own. There is a literal will out there now in the public to go to war regardless of any consequences including nuclear war.
The narrative in the press exactly reflects the thinking of the American elite which means they are willing to accept a war as well.
The thing is that a big war could come as the result of a bunch of small actions. Joe Biden is stupid and a coward. But he could be convinced to do something
like start an air war over Russia as a "safe option". In alot of very scary ways, the world feels like August 1914 right before world war I broke out. Only all
the leadership in all the countries today is FAR WORSE than it was in 1914.
I'm hoping for a miracle. But in the back of my mind I keep thinking we are doomed.
I've as an amateur studied nuclear policy of the Cold War and I'm not an expert by any means, but I can understand some of this. We have like, what, 50 years worth of analysis by guys like Kissenger and Kahn about how escalation to nuclear war would happen, and how to control it, and yet I know the doddering old man in the White House probably barely is aware of any of that, despite having lived through it.
And I'm familiar with the 'near misses' we had like the 1979 NORAD false alert, when training programming was sent to the situation room and had them thinking a Soviet nuclear attack was in progress, and that other situation when that guy Petrov in the Soviet Union had seen at his command post bad data about a incoming American attack and had not escalated up the chain of command knowing it was a false alarm, before it led to them launching, and it's really clear that even decades later a false alarm could get this thing started.
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He's the one who said it.
