@wolfgang59 saidI heard about this and this is not good news. The Doomsday Clock is currently set at two minutes until midnight, the closest it has been since 1953. It was set there in 2018 and not changed for 2019.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47101429
Russia has suspended its involvement in the
Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces Treaty (INF) following a similar decision
by the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
We should be doing more to pull back from the brink, but unfortunately, it may have to wait until there is an adult in the Oval Office.
@suzianne saidI think Putin has to go as well.
I heard about this and this is not good news. The Doomsday Clock is currently set at two minutes until midnight, the closest it has been since 1953. It was set there in 2018 and not changed for 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
We should be doing more to pull back from the brink, but unfortunately, it may have to wait until there is an adult in the Oval Office.
He is an angry man who is still looking for payback for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
03 Feb 19
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@wolfgang59 saidThe Russians broke it first when they started making all kinds of new intermediate range nuclear weapons.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47101429
Russia has suspended its involvement in the
Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces Treaty (INF) following a similar decision
by the US.
The US is proceeding with missile defense tech that Russia didn't like.
03 Feb 19
@suzianne saidIn fairness it's quite plausible this would have happened had HRC won the election, assuming we weren't already in a shooting war.
I heard about this and this is not good news. The Doomsday Clock is currently set at two minutes until midnight, the closest it has been since 1953. It was set there in 2018 and not changed for 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
We should be doing more to pull back from the brink, but unfortunately, it may have to wait until there is an adult in the Oval Office.