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So Biden’s Warning of Nuclear Armageddon. That’s Fun.
Just another day in a world where it feels like we’re right on the edge of societal collapse, right?
Ah, another day, another warning of nuclear armageddon.
CNBC reports:
“President Joe Biden said Thursday that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons after suffering massive setbacks in the eight-month invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin was “a guy I know fairly well” and the Russian leader was “not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons.”…”
Well that’s nice.
Maybe I’m just struggling to process how quickly things are escalating, but all of this seems a little…rushed, no? Are we truly ready to responsibly make that jump to talk of nuclear armageddon? Personally, I find it incredibly hard to imagine nuclear weapons flying from the U.S. to Moscow, or from Moscow to New York. I find it incredibly hard to believe that either Putin or Biden would be willing to destroy the…
