The idea with periodically detonating thermonuclear weapons on US soil, to remind people how bad things can get, is incredible (from 25:00 onwards).

I recently showed my Russian friend an article in The Economist about the arrest of Michael Calvey [1], which concluded in a pessimistic tone that just about anyone can be arrested and go to jail there. To my surprise he said "well, yes, it's true". I couldn't comprehend why would anyone like to live in such conditions.

But then I realized that an arrest and an unfair sentence in Russia is nothing. Neither is a 10*C global warming, economic meltdown 30x stronger than 2008, neither is twenty 9/11s in a week, when compared to a nuclear wasteland. We're all in more dire circumstances than Mr Calvey is in.

[1] https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/02/23/the-arrest-of-mi...