If everyone understood how much is being risked in these nuclear brinkmanship games, how stupid the reasons for those games are, and how no ordinary people benefit from them in any way, the empire managers responsible for these cold war escalations would be eaten alive.
Which is why tremendous effort goes into keeping people from understanding those things. A responsible news media would be educating the public about things like nuclear winter and Vasili Arkhipov. A propaganda engine does all it can to prevent people from thinking about them.
That's why if you understand nuclear war and what it means it feels so surreal and dissonant looking around at the things people are talking about today and how ungrounded in reality it all is. It's because people are prevented from seeing and understanding this reality.
You can't have the riff raff interfering in the mechanics of the imperial machine. Unipolar hegemony is too important to be left to democratic processes. Keep the local fauna confused and distracted while you roll the dice on nuclear armageddon with the hope of ruling the world.
These people are like mobsters, knowing they'll probably die a violent death but willing to risk it all to live the high life. There's not the slightest iota of wisdom guiding their actions. Just the primitive impulse to dominate and control.
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