![]() ![]() The US reply was to repeatedly threaten Russia with the “worst sanctions” it could ever imagine if it dared to attack, and the American press whipped up assurances that war was imminent, all stubbornly refusing to hear Russian president Putin’s stated reason for the standoff he created. Apparently he was trying to make a statement, to call attention to the encroachment of NATO on Russia’s borders and prohibit Ukraine from becoming another member. ![]() ![]() In an act of supreme braggadocio, Putin sent over 100,000 troops to Russia’s border with Ukraine, insisting that he did not intend to invade. The geopolitical maneuvering that has developed as a result is keenly patriarchal. Intimidated by their own creation, nations possessing nuclear weapons have held back from allowing conflict to escalate to nuclear war, but they reject disarmament and the threat of annihilation still hangs over us. Today it betokens the infernal eradication of the human race in an eyeblink. Today, with its nuclear missiles that can travel the world in minutes, war has become more horrific than ever. In its relentless pursuit of power and control, it has no heart. ![]()
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