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Josh Liveright's avatar

I've been screaming about the risks of nuclear war (and nuclear energy) since I was 14 and had a dream that warships filled the bay in front of my house in Maine. Then the bombs were dropped and that was that. I woke up in a cold sweat. Cold war, cold sweat, cold nuclear winter... Sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster. Speaking of, I used to have this poster on my wall in college: https://imageobjecttext.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/gone-with-the-wind.jpg Most people accepted it as simply the way things were back then (kinda like now)...thought I'd share. Detente is a nice word, I'm sure it will be absorbed and released just like any other healing thought. Problem is, we're living in an age where geopolitics began in 2016 for most people. Seems like so many "woke" up around then. So any nuance is lost including the concept of detente. In my last comment on these pages, a couple of real gentlemen suggested I deserved a jackboot stomping of my head when I recommended something benign and healing. So I'm not sure there's much hope for detente in their minds. Where's the detente in our daily lives when we enter into any kind of debate about current events? I'm hanging on to hope but it's getting more difficult to find.

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Marci Sudlow's avatar

-------"Western powers insisted that they were trying to prevent this war while doing everything possible to ensure that it happened. Now they say they are trying to end this war while doing everything possible to ensure it continues."-------

Truer words were never spoken.

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