Sunday, March 6, 2022

Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Chechnya post-Putin; what he does best.          Photo: James Nachtwey
 

By now, we've all seen that notorious traffic jam of tanks and military vehicles,  all those little ducks all lined up so neatly in a row. And just a coupla planes could wreak such absolute havoc upon them all... and possibly ignite a world war the size and consequence of which would make our impending global warming catastrophe moot. Zelenskyy is right in pleading for those NATO planes to draw attention to the plight of his people, but should they consent to his impassioned pleas- it would well ignite the ire of the once apparent and now fully exposed Russian nuclear madman. 

Russian forces are already maniacal enough to attack one of the worlds largest nuclear reactors that contains... 6 reactors! Poke a stick in the eye of that mother and it will make Chernobyl look like proverbial child's play- a nuclear exclusion zone that would stretch thousands of miles for thousands of years (not to mention the hundreds of thousands of immediate, and long term deaths)!

Should the US and NATO team up to defeat this madman, you know his fellow autocrat, wannabe world rulers in China and North Korea will join in the fun and... goodbye, blue marble in space.* Mutually Assured Destruction.

You know we got some undercover ops working in there now, and maybe, just maybe we can get just enough weaponry in there to hold off this mass murdering lunatic from doing his utmost. He's already been humiliated in the world's eyes, and that means he's gonna double down on the payback end. Let's not forget how Putin joyfully reduced Chechnya to bricks and rubble in another unjustified war in which the levels of brutality shocked even hardened conflict journalists, and how Russian jets repeatedly attacked Syrian schools and hospitals. The guy has to be stopped (contained?), the question being- how to do it without killing off the rest of us...

* and that's not to say that the US and Russia alone can't destroy planet Earth

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