(June 28, 2024 at 2:26 pm)Disagreeable Wrote: Good to hear that the consensus is that there won't be a nuclear war. Thanks guys!
No one can guarantee that. We are assuming no one will me mad enough to start a war of mass annihilation but this is still only an assumption. Which is why previous generations in the 80’s have pushed for nuclear disarmament and their call was in the end heard by Ronald Reagan + Michail Gorbatchev. Too bad they didn’t reduce those numbers to a much, much smaller level. China wouldn’t have the right type of arguments to ramp up its nuclear arsenal if the US arsenal was (say) 1/100th of what it is today
But this is not what emboldens Russia + China. The reason of their over-confidence is the far-right. Far right parties were very successful in the European Elections. France is facing the risk of having its first fascist government since the Vichy government in WWII (The Rassemblement National wants to ban bi-nationals from entering politics while they have Russian Nationals in their ranks and is regularly receiving cash from the Kremlin + The Leader of the center-right Republican party Eric Sioty / That’s the Party founded by Nicholas Sarchozy who managed to escape a prison sentence despite the fact that he received cash from Kaddafi during his presidential campaign back in 2007 /has just joined them).
So I’m worried mostly for the world in general when I see that the 81 year old Democratic candidate is having serious health issues. But he remains defiant right?