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I live in France and we usually complain about how our president, government, parliament, administration and whatnot is miserable. Until now (for all my life),
by BrandoElFollito 3y ago
I live in France and we usually complain about how our president, government, parliament, administration and whatnot is miserable. Until now (for all my life), it has just been general ranting because we knew that the system makes radical changes difficult.
It is only recently (late last year an this year) that there is sometimes a strange feeling that one guy (Putin) could blow all this stability up by raising tension in our region to the point where European governments are talking about war right here.
This is truly scary because so far war has been a remote thing - we knew that people were fighting somewhere in the world and we had armchair compassion at lunch.
I noticed a palpable hatred toward Putin rising in my circles because of this tension raising. People are less interested in politics but rather in the fact that, to our horror, the idea of a war is being invoked.
- ddalex 3y agoIf Putin decides to unleash global Armaggedon, my only fear is NOT being at the epicenter of one of the nuclear detonations.
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoSame here, seriously. I live near Paris so there is hope that the blast will reach us. I had a look at a site that showed the area touched by specific bombs and I am at the edge. It is really sad that such thoughts are for real and not just in a movie.
- smackeyacky 3y agoMove to Australia and get a couple months reprieve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
- meowster 3y agoIn the event of a nuclear armageddon, would anyone be nuking South America or Africa? I assume such an armageddon would disrupt supply chains and cause social strife in other parts of the world, but are there parts where it would be business as usual? Africa? Maybe warlords would run out of ammunition, but they would still have machetes.
- _ph_ 3y agoThe thing is, there is less fear of a nuclear armageddon which would erradicate Russia as well, but the raising fear of a conventional attack of Russia against the rest of Europe. Of course that won't happen while Ukraine holds, but if we allowed Ukraine to fall due to lack of support, Putin is quite likely to turn against other European states.