Posted on Feb 26, 2022
Opinion: Our world's chilling return to authoritarianism
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I doubt any of us who lived through the Cold War want those times to return.
Schoolchildren scrunched below desks in fear of a nuclear attack. Riches were spent on weapons, instead of people. "Every rocket fired," said President Dwight Eisenhower, "signifies ... a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
A cold concrete wall divided Berlin, and more than 100 people died trying to scale it — always, by the way, from the communist East, into the freedom of the West.
There were proxy wars, missile rattling and nightmares about mushroom clouds and global devastation in which, as President John F. Kennedy phrased it, "the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth."
I remember the Captive Nations Day Parade each summer in Chicago. Bands, floats and dancers in national costumes celebrated Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Albania, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia and other countries caught by Russian tanks behind what Winston Churchill had called "an Iron Curtain ... descended across the continent."
I doubt any of us who lived through the Cold War want those times to return.
Schoolchildren scrunched below desks in fear of a nuclear attack. Riches were spent on weapons, instead of people. "Every rocket fired," said President Dwight Eisenhower, "signifies ... a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
A cold concrete wall divided Berlin, and more than 100 people died trying to scale it — always, by the way, from the communist East, into the freedom of the West.
There were proxy wars, missile rattling and nightmares about mushroom clouds and global devastation in which, as President John F. Kennedy phrased it, "the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth."
I remember the Captive Nations Day Parade each summer in Chicago. Bands, floats and dancers in national costumes celebrated Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Albania, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia and other countries caught by Russian tanks behind what Winston Churchill had called "an Iron Curtain ... descended across the continent."
Opinion: Our world's chilling return to authoritarianism
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1.) Doomsday clock: Humanity closer to annihilation than ever before, scientists say
Clock is now set to 100 seconds to midnight, experts announce
Andrew Griffin
Thursday 23 January 2020 16:08
Humanity is closer to annihilation than ever before, according to the scientists behind the “Doomsday Clock” .
The time has moved to 100 seconds to midnight – much nearer to catastrophe than the scientists have set the clock in the more than 70 years it has been around. It had previously been set at two minutes to midnight, which was as close as it had ever been, and matched the danger during the depths of the Cold War.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/doomsday-clock-2020-coronavirus-midnight-time-nuclear-war-ai-climate-a9298926.html
2.) Edging World Closer to Nuclear War, Trump Deploys 'Low Yield'—More 'Usable'—Atomic Warhead on US Submarine
"An alarming development that heightens the risk of nuclear war."
byJulia Conley, staff writeronThursday, January 30, 2020
https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/30/edging-world-closer-nuclear-war-trump-deploys-low-yield-more-usable-atomic-warhead%3famp
3.) Risk of Nuclear War Rises as U.S. Deploys a New Nuclear Weapon for the First Time Since the Cold War
STORYFEBRUARY 07, 2020
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/7/us_new_low_yield_nuclear_weapons
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WAR = RESPECT/COMMUNICATION/EGO
1.) Inflated - EGO : I’m right, you need to comply.
2.) Lack of COMMUNICATION : I’m not willing to talk things out, to understand our differences/issues to find a logical peaceful solution.
3.) Lack of RESPECT : I don’t respect you as an human being/lack of humanity.
*The Cold War lasted sooooo long because human beings no matter how much they disagreed ... avoided nuclear warfare.
They understood that there was no coming back once either side lunched*
*Funny people laughed at me when I was posting about this last year : “April 27th, 2020”.
Clock is now set to 100 seconds to midnight, experts announce
Andrew Griffin
Thursday 23 January 2020 16:08
Humanity is closer to annihilation than ever before, according to the scientists behind the “Doomsday Clock” .
The time has moved to 100 seconds to midnight – much nearer to catastrophe than the scientists have set the clock in the more than 70 years it has been around. It had previously been set at two minutes to midnight, which was as close as it had ever been, and matched the danger during the depths of the Cold War.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/doomsday-clock-2020-coronavirus-midnight-time-nuclear-war-ai-climate-a9298926.html
2.) Edging World Closer to Nuclear War, Trump Deploys 'Low Yield'—More 'Usable'—Atomic Warhead on US Submarine
"An alarming development that heightens the risk of nuclear war."
byJulia Conley, staff writeronThursday, January 30, 2020
https://www.google.com/amp/s/http://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/30/edging-world-closer-nuclear-war-trump-deploys-low-yield-more-usable-atomic-warhead%3famp
3.) Risk of Nuclear War Rises as U.S. Deploys a New Nuclear Weapon for the First Time Since the Cold War
STORYFEBRUARY 07, 2020
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/7/us_new_low_yield_nuclear_weapons
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WAR = RESPECT/COMMUNICATION/EGO
1.) Inflated - EGO : I’m right, you need to comply.
2.) Lack of COMMUNICATION : I’m not willing to talk things out, to understand our differences/issues to find a logical peaceful solution.
3.) Lack of RESPECT : I don’t respect you as an human being/lack of humanity.
*The Cold War lasted sooooo long because human beings no matter how much they disagreed ... avoided nuclear warfare.
They understood that there was no coming back once either side lunched*
*Funny people laughed at me when I was posting about this last year : “April 27th, 2020”.
Humanity is closer to annihilation than ever before, scientists say
Clock is now set to 100 seconds to midnight, experts announce
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel I remember them well... what good are Border fences when are enemy are in Congress & the Statehouses.
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"Authoritarian regimes have proliferated all around the globe, and human rights crimes abound. Just a generation after so many walls were brought down, it is hard not to feel that the world has plunged back into darkness.
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