Friendly reminder that if there's a nuclear war it won't matter if it's Russia's fault or if it happened because Putin is a bad bad man. Such intellectual cover will be of no consolation as the world ends. All that will matter is that we didn't take steps to avoid that outcome.
I keep bringing this up because I really don't think most people get it. People really don't seem to understand that nuclear war would mean the end, and that the end would mean it won't matter whose fault it was. The only thing that would matter is that humanity let it happen. 
People don't seem to understand that nuclear war would mean nobody will be around to arbitrate whose fault it was or feel self-righteous about it. There won't be pundits arguing about it on Fox or MSNBC, over whether it was more Biden's fault, Trump's fault, Putin's fault, etc.
So people respond to warnings of nuclear war by babbling about how Russia shouldn't be threatening nukes and how Putin is a mean mean meanie. But that just isn't a valid response to the crisis our species is now facing. People aren't engaging rationally with this subject at all.
And I think that's largely because the prospect of nuclear armageddon such a big, uncomfortable subject to confront. For most people it's just this vague blurry mass in the periphery of their awareness; they haven't sat down and deeply contemplated what it is. What it would mean.
So we're being marched further and further into nuclear brinkmanship under cover of mass media propaganda, sure. But we're also being marched further and further into nuclear brinkmanship under cover of our own tendency toward psychological compartmentalization.
It absolutely is possible to turn away from this trajectory and move toward de-escalation, diplomacy and detente. Anyone who tells you that's not possible is lying. All it would cost is some ego hits and the relinquishing of agendas of global conquest.
https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin/status/1617983970376912897
There will be several. Happens literally every single time I try to talk about the threat of nuclear war and its implication for our species. People actually think it's a valid response to a discussion about the very worst thing that could possibly happen.
https://twitter.com/AhMoonHK/status/1618030408800833537
See this is what I'm talking about. Do you understand that these noises you're making are not actually a response to the fact that the world may end in an entirely preventable nuclear holocaust? Do you understand this doesn't address the issue at all?
https://twitter.com/Masterpatriot/status/1618031094892474368?s=20&t=11djFvVE66zGx1-_qS3jgQ
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