Scene from a 1984 British docudrama about a nuclear war between NATO and Russia
After a Duran video by Alexander Mercouris, a Greek who moved at seven with his family to Britain:
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@theduran Thanks for this show, as always.
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Britain should return the “Elgin marbles” (what a euphemism for brazenly stolen Athenian art) to Hellas before (here it comes) russophobic Britain gets literally nuked by Moscow.
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Unfortunately, I am not joking…… We ARE heading toward WWIII, and at age 67 myself, a child of the mid-Fifties, I do remember, as does Alexander, the anti-nuclear movement and the pressure (esp. on the Left) to de-escalate tensions between East and West.
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I am as shocked as Alexander that people today seem to be shrugging their shoulders, ho-hum, over aggressive war in general and specifically the ghastly consequences of a thermonuclear Armageddon.
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Shocked but not surprised…. The Tavistock people have specialized in getting us habituated to so many things which our grandparents would have found absolutely intolerable….for example, this 6’1″ male swimmer declaring himself a woman to win a championship as the second- and third-place girls understandably glower.
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The fact that such a monstrous, unchivalrous and anti-woman thing goes on (I have two grown daughters myself, btw, one of whom was an outstanding lacrosse player) or people claiming they do not know what a woman is (!), or just the word “birthing people (!),” shows that there is a supine submissiveness going on that makes a mockery of British and American songs celebrating our putative “freedom”.
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“Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves” and “the land of the free and the home of the brave” — really???
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This craven silence as horrible things go on applies to so many, many crises, a nuclear holocaust being just one of many obscenities that in the past would have not been imaginable.
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We are talking about being FRIED, after all, and our beautiful, ancient cathedrals, our museums harboring precious paintings and sculptures and Greco-Roman antiquities, all these high achievements being blasted into tiny molecules….,and then in the wake of nuclear war hundreds of millions of innocents slowly dying of hunger, thirst, cold, lack of medications and from radioactive fallout, their hair falling out in clumps.
(My wife lost her beautiful auburn hair during her — successful — bout with throat cancer. To become bald is nothing a woman wants to undergo, not to mention the nausea of the chemo.)
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And now we are talking about a world full of people losing their hair, the contents of their stomach, and finally their lives.
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The 2020 US Stealection was another tolerated outrage. Everyone knows, at least deep-down, that Biden stole it! And yet, while owning 900 million guns, the Americans people just sit there and sigh and bemoan their fate…. It is morally inexcusable to be so supine. How will we face our children? Sitting in the wreckage, our children or grandchildren will ask: “What did you do to stop WWIII, daddy?”.
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“Well, I clicked ‘like’ on something, or ‘thumbs down’.”
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…..Comments by Duran supporters
@theduran, @JohndeNugent I totally agree with you,John. That our leaders (I’m in U.K.) think we have any justification for keeping any plundered/stolen artefacts is absolutely outrageous. I’m a decade younger, but nevertheless remember the world that you describe. There was still a modicum of sanity back then.
@theduran, @JohndeNugent If we indeed get a WWIII, a hot one. I think it is unavoidable that we will see the first nuclear so-called “tactical” weapon being fired. It will start there.
Then there really will not be anymore wars after that.
@theduran, @JohndeNugent I am also struck with how easy are stated comments about nuclear strikes and how people do not understand that if we go that route,then Mother Earth will be populated only with rats and bugs. Someone named Mark in Telegram session tried to explain me that tactical nukes are not problematic. As someone who knows how a 203mm howitzer sounds on impact, I was terrify how easily young people talk about Nuke impacts these days. (I only suppose he is young, otherwise he would be sick remembering drills for preparation for nuclear strike.) I could not believe what I heard.
@theduran, @JohndeNugent Well said, John. I really appreciate your perspective. The attitude of the US administration in that they believe they would survive a low-level nuclear war is mistaken folly.
You probably recall in the 1980’s when the debate was of the neutron bomb which would be used in land battles. The idea being that the bomb would be exploded above the battlefield wiping out the opposing forces and because it was low-yield, the land and city structures would remain intact and return to usefulness five to so years after the radiation had dissipated and people would move back from areas which had not been nuked and resettle, or whatever. I remember diagrams explaining this on morning breakfast shows in America.
It is a nonsense, of course but the Victoria Nulands and the Tony Blinkens neocon class were being raised on this…. along with the prevailing attitude of “holier than thou” sense of righteousness promoted by the charismatic evangelicals at morning prayer breakfasts held throughout Washington from that time forward which has now become a fallacious culture which is immune from any rational argument to the contrary.
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The people who would attend the prayer breakfasts were congressmen, generals and other special guests who were of like hive mind. The carry-over of this thinking extended into the military on army bases, bomber command airbases, and naval bases such as in Norfolk, Virginia.
What does one do, given the belief and preaching sense of Armageddon and those evangelicals who believe that the Rapture is not far off and they, being among the righteous, will ascend and be spared annihilation? We must educate coming generations against complacency and all nuclear war — to never forget and always remember, and to keep on saying that it is wrong and supreme folly.
I could also say that Mao Sedong goaded the Allies when MacArthur was toying the idea of going to nuclear war in Korea in 1952 saying that no matter how many of you die there will always be enough Chinese to survive whatever nuclear war you bring. Truman heard him and fired MacArthur’s ass/arse because using nukes was just nuts. Lest we forget, eh?
Persevere John — it is what we must do.
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What good are the Elgin Marbles if they are radioactive?
Britain should keep the Elgin Marbles as payment for stopping Greek communists from seizing Greece after WW2.
Greek freedom paid for by British blood.
Who’s going to save Europe from Muslim/African invaders trying to ethnically cleanse you! Yes you reading this.