Long ago
February 25, 2022•40 words
When I was a child in the 1970s I used to have terrible dreams about nuclear war. Eventually as I grew up and the world seemed to become safer, the dreams faded and stopped.
Now I have those dreams again.
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Small mercies
February 24, 2022•53 words
The only thing to be thankful for about Russia/Ukraine is that it didn't happen when Trump was president. Biden may not be great, but he's not Trump, and fortunately brexit has ensured that no-one outside the UK has to care what the johnsonites, who are heavily compromised by Russian money, think or do.
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February 27, 2022•173 words
Putin is putting his nuclear forces on special alert. From televised comments by Putin:
Senior officials of the leading Nato countries also allow aggressive statements against our country, therefore I order the minister of Defense and the chief of the general staff [of the Russian armed forces] to transfer the deterrence forces of the Russian army to a special mode of combat duty.
Western countries aren’t only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, but top offi...
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