[ SECRET POST #5532 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5532 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How was your weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

Putin's space minister has implied they are ready to drop the ISS out of orbit early, and start a kessler syndrome, to avoid Russia losing its war, and Putin is supposedly ready to authorize tactical nuclear strikes, and this is all fine and very normal. I'm fine, I'm not worried, everything is okay and not scary at all. Yes, I am completely okay. Okay? Okay!

Re: How was your weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

Putin is supposedly ready to authorize tactical nuclear strikes

Don't worry about this. It'll never happen. I realize that must sound trite, but remember that pretty much everything coming out of Russia is pure propaganda (so he probably is not actually ready to authorize nukes), but also the use of nukes at all is vanishingly improbable. "Mutually assured destruction" is the term we learned back in the first Cold War (bc this is 100% just Cold War 2.0): if Russia were to launch nukes, nukes would be launched against them, and all it results in is no winner. It's just not going to happen, despite threats.

Re: How was your weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

Not to go all fearmongering but, with COnservatives--mostly in the US but I guss in every country--thinking "my world to rule or no world at all" can't this still lead to "better us blowing the world ourselves than them"?

Re: How was your weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

It's definitely easy to go down that path of worry, I totally understand. I'm dating myself big time here, but I was an older teen during the height of the Cold War, and it felt very much the same as this-- all the big "what if"s, what leaders might turn out to be megalomaniacs who would punch the button just to get their way.

The important thing to remember is that it's just not how the global economy works. In the end, there's no politician that's actually insane enough to ruin the entire world because that means the end of their own power. Threats, yes, absolutely-- it's good to appear that you're ready to throw down, markets can and will bend to that. But it'll never actually be done.

I know it's scary. This shit kept me up nights the first time around, so I'm not about to shame anyone for being afraid and thinking about the worst case scenario. I just want to offer my perspective as someone that's been through it before.

Re: How was your weekend?

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the answer;
"In the end, there's no politician that's actually insane enough to ruin the entire world because that means the end of their own power." I need to print that.
I remember, last year, my mother being so, so worried that Trump would throw a tantrum and blow the planet before he surrendered his spot to Biden, likening him to those entitled white males who murder their whole families when their wives threaten to leave them and take the kids away... only with more power. Next time we get scared again I'll remember that it didn't happen after all!