NB: The above video is NOT real!
In my flat I have my old push-bike on the landing. It is there because I have no outside storage and although I don’t use it anymore, I have not sold it because, #1 I’d get very little for it and #2 sentimental reasons. This because the bike is the physical embodiment of the life lesson my late father taught me as a teenager. In my early teens I wanted a new bike. One with drop handlebars and dérailleur gears and 27 inch diameter wheels. Dad told me that if I wanted a new bike I’d have to earn some money to buy it. This meant a paper round. After I’d saved up half the money, Dad told me that he’d pay the difference and that I could give up the paper round with the proviso that I use the time saved to concentrate on home work and not TV viewing!
One of the regular roads I cycled along was Alwoodley Lane in Leeds 17. On this lane there was (still is) a split level detached house with a specially built nuclear shelter. It was built in the 1960s after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
During the “Cold War” there was always the threat of nuclear annihilation if WW3 broke out. When the Berlin Wall came down and things changed we all thought this threat had gone away. Well it has NOT!
Doctor North’s blog-post today (https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/ukraine-the-bigger-picture/) makes sombre reading.
Herewith some worrying parts:
“The Anglo-Saxons, he [Putin] said, believe sanctions are no longer enough and now they have turned to subversion. “It seems incredible”, he continued, “but it is a fact – by causing explosions on Nord Stream’s international gas pipelines passing along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, they have actually embarked on the destruction of Europe’s entire energy infrastructure. It is clear to everyone who stands to gain. Those who benefit are responsible, of course”.
Doctor North’s comment: Essentially, once the narrative of Western culpability has been fully established, this leaves the way open for Moscow to justify – to itself – appropriate retaliatory action aimed at hastening ongoing collapse of Western hegemony, a culture so degenerate that its schools impose on our children, from their earliest days in school, “perversions that lead to degradation and extinction”. “Do we want to drum into [our own children’s] heads the ideas”, Putin asks, “that certain other genders exist along with women and men and to offer them gender reassignment surgery?”
Then we have a US media source (https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/extracts-from-putins-speech-at-annexation-ceremony-3392545) commenting upon Putin’s accusation of, “Outright Satanism”.
This is all very very worrying. Putin might be setting the stage for the use of a nuclear weapon along the lines that Doctor North (and this blog) has postulated.
Particularly worrying of course is the concern I’ve speculated about. That the USA responds with a nuclear strike (of any size) against Russia.
The problem is that the only sane response – a diplomatic one (comprehensive all embracing sanctions) would be seen – by US politicians coming up to the mid term elections – as weak.