I remember it, and this isn’t quite the same.
In those days it was very intense. Kids in schools were
having nuclear strike drills. It made it very real and
quite unsettling for kids. Their awake time was pretty
much mired in it in those days.
While the adults right now understand how things can
escalate dramatically, I don’t think anyone actually
thinks Putin would do something like that.
Are kids in schools today, practicing for a nuclear strike?
Are they going home in total fear at night.
Even if at war with Russia, there is still cause to think
that we would fight it out on the battlefield and not take
it to our homelands.
It would make sense for us to push Russia back to it’s
own homeland, but I don’t think anyone would be stupid
enough under these circumstances to make a march on
Moscow, or other Russian territory.
There is no cause for Russia to think it’s very existence
is in jeopardy.
The whole wa=ar is because Russia sees the NATO expansion all the way up to its borders as a threat to its existence. 25 million dead in WW2 is something we in the US can’t fathom.
They haven’t forgot. Now they are basically being surrounded on all fronts. Sorry but yes, Russia sees this as a fight for its survival.
If it goes to war with the US, it will be nuclear.
Given today’s gubment/media environment……
“Are kids in schools today, practicing for a nuclear strike?
Are they going home in total fear at night.”
Would such a condition ever come to fore?
I don’t trust our gubment to do right by the American people. Once upon a time I did. Now, not so much.
Gotta say, I did the duck-and-cover thing under the desk in First Grade and maybe the next year as well. It just never bothered me. It was just more school-rules and rigamarole.
I absolutely knew what it was about, because they told us. It seemed appropriate enough. Life goes on. Since we still got to play softball and bombardment at recess, it was all good.
“There is no cause for Russia to think it’s very existence
is in jeopardy.”
I think that depends upon how unbalanced and unhinged Putin is, at any given moment.
No, no one is doing anything differently. These won’t be hapless Arab irregulars this time. Did you throw the 80 year accepted truths about the Russian Army out the window when overnight they became a paper bear? There is no opposing opinion. Where are the legit pacifists, the anti war college crowd, the Hollywood contingent, religious objectors? Total silence, no one is even considering touching the brakes. Remember “The Day After”? This eyeball to eyeball confrontation, 300 miles from Moscow, is much more provocative than intermediate range nukes in West Germany. “The Day After” in prime time as in 1983 would gut support for this lunacy overnight. I have been making the same points about the escalatory process for three weeks now. From day one, 90% here have denounced me as a Putin stooge. The fact is, we are already four or five rungs up the escalatory ladder from three weeks ago. If NATO goes in and the conflict goes American/Russian you might want to dust off those contingency plans for Armageddon we both thought were obsolete. God, I hope I’m just a crazy old scared crank. I love my grandchildren very, very much.
Never underestimate the stupidity of Western leadership.