That friends, is Putin’s “existential threat” coming from America in an undeclared war between Russia and the West. notwithstanding, Biden has spoken of the need for “regime change” in Russia. The figurative mountains of cash sent by the U.S. Add to Putin’s fears the fact Joe Biden - totally ignoring the War Powers Act - has sent upward of $200 billion to the Ukrainians and has pledged to keep up the American support, “as long as it takes.” He would have every reason to relate to how Jack Kennedy felt during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Regardless of what you think of the war in Ukraine and who is right versus wrong, you have to agree Vladimir Putin is not being unreasonable to feel threatened by talks of possible NATO involvement in the conflict. senator recently suggested America consider “first strike” nukes as a real possibility and worthy of pursuit. We hear seemingly colloquial phrases like “low yield” or “theater” nukes casually spoken of as if opening Pandora’s atomic box is just another arrow in our quiver. Yet we hear our leaders throw the word “nuclear” around like a cocktail party punchline. Today’s hydrogen warheads are exponentially more destructive, a true and actual existential threat. If you’ve ever seen the sickening photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where a tiny atom bomb - tiny by today’s weaponry sizes - was used to instantly vaporize more than 100,000 souls with many more dying within days. Perhaps at the time our leaders felt they needed to do something to allay people’s real fears of becoming extinct. The idea a school desk could protect you from a nuclear blast is, well, obscene. Those drills were yet another example of our government lying to us. If you were of school age during the early ’60s, you’ll remember the war drills where we dove under our desks for “protection” if incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles were detected and believed on their way. maintained enormous stockpiles of nuclear weapons capable of killing all life on Earth many times over. Both the USSR (Soviet Union) and the U.S. A pending matter so grave that if realized, our lives - our existence - may come to an end.īaby boomers and older remember living through the Cold War. ![]() The “existential threat” phrase literally means a hazard to our very existence. Regardless of your feelings about the veracity of examples cited, we, as a people, need to understand words have meaning. One of my pet peeves is the tired, thoroughly worn-out and grotesquely overused term “existential threat.” People have heard ad nauseum about supposed existential threats like “racism, white supremacy and toxic masculinity.” ![]() When national leaders discuss World War III, believe them. Loose talk about nuclear weapons and red lines drawn while massive armed forces are on a war footing, prepared for battle. One should “shave off” unnecessary complexities and go with the duck principal.Įstablishing the above as straight-thinking standards, I am amazed by our federal government’s recent song and dance routines to get us to ignore less than subtle examples our nation is on the precipice of what could rapidly lead to World War III. Then there’s Occam’s razor: “The simplest explanation is most often correct.” That, dear reader, is an example of “ab-DUCK-tive” reasoning. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
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