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History was always my passion.

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That doesn’t answer the question.

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Then why do the capitalists spend trillions on such weapons they don’t intend using, and billions too on luxury furnished nuclear bunkers for themselves – not to mention radiation-proof aircraft for the Heads of state to use to survey a post-nuclear landscape?

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Editorial: Doom and gloom? Think again

I’ve gone through my Youtube history and deleted all doom and gloom channels. I’ve also deleted all doom and gloom Google searches, and am limiting my TV news to BBC red button.

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I am in the same position, and believe me, I am not trying to instil pessimism. If I have, i’m sorry.
For me, cheering up is achieved with vintage movies and innocuous reading (from books, not screen), such as Raymond Chandler for now.

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The Soviet Union had ended by then, and Russia was at its political weakest.

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Not really, because we’ll never need any paper again.
Today’s nuclear missiles EACH have multiple warheads: that’s EACH ONE multiple thermo-nuclear bombs, thousands of times more powerful than what struck Hiroshima.
Nor would only one or two of these missiles be fired, but hundreds.

Safe to say, we would all, on these islands, be obliterated in seconds.

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But, despite all this, the DPP president of Taiwan herself has NOT proclaimed independence, and the US will advise her not to.

The Kuomintang are also mounting anti-independence marches, and that should satisfy China, which will nonetheless continue flexing its military might, as it has always done whenever independence is hinted at.

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Thanks, ALB, for the elucidation. I am no longer bothering with Youtube videos on the subject. One can easily get sucked into catastrophism.

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Sacco and Vanzetti (1971)

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https://www.grunge.com/951933/how-humphrey-bogart-took-a-stand-during-the-hollywood-red-scare/

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Yes, but in 1962 the Soviet Union was not facing war on its borders, threatening its regime’s existence, so it could back down.

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But it obliges all of NATO to officially declare war, whereas at the moment it is unofficial. And surely, where Europe is concerned, an official and open war with Russia could not but be nuclear.

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What if Article 5 is triggered? Movimiento says no nuclear weapons will ever be used, but, because of Article 5, NATO will be obliged to, won’t it?

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Youtubers are really hyping up the nuclear war angle; really pushing catastrophism.

Do you think all this military muscle-flexing by all states at the moment is to divert workers from class issues and climate change? And to reinforce patriotic hysteria?

What is the real reason they are doing all this now, more than the usual?

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