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Meanwhile, Putin just announced that they are increasing the operational readiness of their nuclear arsenal.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/27/vladimir-putin...

Anybody still feel that this is just a Ukranian or European problem?

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I think it's a good sign for how I've curated my Twitter feed that everyone seems to understand how "regional" wars can spiral and how much this resembles the early days of the world wars. Add world-ending nuclear arsenals to that, and things get dicey.

Effectively we've been in World War III for a week or so but that realization does not seem to want to sink in yet. Europe is quite literally the battlefield of the world, we dodged a bullet in former Yugoslavia and may well dodge another one but it is definitely one of the most scary things I've lived through to date.

I hope it is ready so no madman can fire it on accident.

Other than that, I doubt there will be any nuclear action. We'll be back at the Cold War show where the script is: everybody dies and the question is who's first.

We are at a cross roads, and what will happen next relies a lot on people that should never have had that much power to begin with.

Yeah that was the case back than too.

This is the reason why we should always reduce the fuckup tools in peace times and that goes not only for nuclear weapons. Things like huge data sets could end up being your next Holocaust for example.

Yes, I wrote about that:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide/

Too many madmen with power on this planet.

It's a EU problem until nukes get involved

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