[hardspunned]

Incredibly, no one in DC seems to care about this any longer. You get the feeling they think it doesn’t matter since we’d probably “win” the nuclear war with Russia anyway.

I’m nearly seventy and these are truly the most dangerous days America has faced in my lifetime. What helped to prevent WWIII during the Cuban Missile Crises no longer exists.

[DesertRhino]

The “hotline” of old was designed to prevent misunderstandings. This modern bunch of childish jackasses wants to run provocative actions, blow up pipelines, launch terrorist attacks, bomb the Kerch bridge, target Russian warships etc... then think they can avoid any unpleasantness by just chatting on the phone?

The problems are not coming from lack of communication, the lack of communication has come from the problems. Problems we were the author of.

We do not bring enough honesty or goodwill to the table for anyone to want a hotline.

[MinorityRepublican]

It’s just Putin. When we dealt with the Soviets, we were able to speak to the Politburo.

[DesertRhino]

““We could read each other’s signals. We knew how to send signals to each other… almost all of that is gone now,” Gen. Christopher Cavoli, NATO supreme allied commander and head of U.S. European Command, said Monday.”

Yeah, when you are running a proxy war and when our “president’s” stated national policy is the overthrow the Russian government, communications do tend to break down. Weird....

This must pass for “deep thought” at the Pentagram.

[PerConPat]

Well...it seems Gen. Milley’s approach, a phonecon with his ChiCom counterpart in Oct. 2020, has not rubbed off on Gen. Cavoli. He apparently respects the Constitution.

[linMcHlp]

Moscow has little reason to listen, to a country that:

- can not produce enough 155mm artillery shells

- fails to produce enough electricity

- can not repair a bridge

- can not figure out that a male is a male and a female is a female

- can not assemble a safe commercial airliner

- is afraid to cook red meat on a gas or charcoal fired grill

- can not control its borders

- etc.

[The Louiswu]

Lives are cheap nowadays, with abortions, euthanasia, mass murder events the once unthinkable idea that nuclear war would be terrible has now been softened to “nuclear war would help get rid of a large percentage of the population we want to get rid of anyway.”

[dfwgator]

[McGruff]

Maybe we another shoe banging incident to get people's attention.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Maybe we stop doing stupid stuff.

[joethedrummer]

HOLD IT, ONE MINUTE!!!

I distinctly remember that Hillary Clinton fixed all the problems between the US and Russia!!

She gave them a “Reset” button toy..

What da heck?!?