Tom Nichols touched on this in the podcast with Charlie but did not follow it through.
The History of our species shows that often rulers come to power for whom there is no gradation of utility between complete success and annihilation of everything. That’s “apres moi le Deluge” or Hitler ordering the destruction first of Paris and the…
Tom Nichols touched on this in the podcast with Charlie but did not follow it through.
The History of our species shows that often rulers come to power for whom there is no gradation of utility between complete success and annihilation of everything. That’s “apres moi le Deluge” or Hitler ordering the destruction first of Paris and then of Germany as he was losing.
If Hitler and Stalin had had the power in 1945 that the postwar erstwhile Allies had twenty years later, and it had been Hitler vs Stalin at the Cuban missile crisis, none of us would be here today.
This all comes down to how serious Putin is about his goals to re-subjugate all the former Soviet Union’s pieces, and re-extend hegemony over all the territories on the Russian Empire’s borders at its maximum historical extent. He warned us he plans to use nuclear weapons regardless of consequences rather than back down from this program.
A person in power for whom there is no intermediate preference between winning everything his ambition desires and the end of himself and the entire world is the nightmare fatal flaw in mutual assured destruction.
All my life between my birth and 1989 I lived in Michigan about 80 miles NW of Detroit, and few were the evenings I happened to glance to the East I did not wonder if in a moment I might see the flash of the nuclear detonations over Detroit and Toledo.
It won’t be that light Today if Putin is what I fear he is, and we don’t capitulate. It will be the EMP that takes out our electrical grid and our comms and our civilization.
He doesn’t think we won’t blink. But if we don’t blink he won’t care, because we will all die together.
We, in our ignorance of history, tend to forget that a third of the American colonists wanted to stay with England. What gave the US it's independence was the intelligence of most the leaders in the colonies (including the infant Congress. Watch 1776. It actually incorporated a lot of actual speeches by the members of the Continental Congress.) Intelligence in Congress is sorely missing of late.
Tom Nichols touched on this in the podcast with Charlie but did not follow it through.
The History of our species shows that often rulers come to power for whom there is no gradation of utility between complete success and annihilation of everything. That’s “apres moi le Deluge” or Hitler ordering the destruction first of Paris and then of Germany as he was losing.
If Hitler and Stalin had had the power in 1945 that the postwar erstwhile Allies had twenty years later, and it had been Hitler vs Stalin at the Cuban missile crisis, none of us would be here today.
This all comes down to how serious Putin is about his goals to re-subjugate all the former Soviet Union’s pieces, and re-extend hegemony over all the territories on the Russian Empire’s borders at its maximum historical extent. He warned us he plans to use nuclear weapons regardless of consequences rather than back down from this program.
A person in power for whom there is no intermediate preference between winning everything his ambition desires and the end of himself and the entire world is the nightmare fatal flaw in mutual assured destruction.
All my life between my birth and 1989 I lived in Michigan about 80 miles NW of Detroit, and few were the evenings I happened to glance to the East I did not wonder if in a moment I might see the flash of the nuclear detonations over Detroit and Toledo.
It won’t be that light Today if Putin is what I fear he is, and we don’t capitulate. It will be the EMP that takes out our electrical grid and our comms and our civilization.
He doesn’t think we won’t blink. But if we don’t blink he won’t care, because we will all die together.
We, in our ignorance of history, tend to forget that a third of the American colonists wanted to stay with England. What gave the US it's independence was the intelligence of most the leaders in the colonies (including the infant Congress. Watch 1776. It actually incorporated a lot of actual speeches by the members of the Continental Congress.) Intelligence in Congress is sorely missing of late.