All this talk of nuclear war is terryfying me. Because of my processing issues I struggle to understand it all. Is it actually going to happen?
I dont think I could cope with that at all ,be too much for me
Going through so much in my own life at the moment and hearing all this is too much
I wouldn’t worry about nuclear war, information is the new wmd, failing that pandemics are the cheapest and easiest to initiate global destruction..
I'll just drop this here, to lighten the mood. It's so silly and funny...
I like the news. It can sometimes have some interesting articles, sometimes heartwarming and sometimes sickening. With a lot of it though it's scaremongering, so you need to bear that in mind. When they say about imminent war it's just them making it seem worse than it actually is. That's how the news works. The bad stuff sells so it's reported more and usually made out worse than it actually is.
.....up until the time that it doesn't.
Bringing my usual highbrow thinking to this thread, I just want to say that when I see its title I can't help reading it to the tune of the 'ITN news music' 'Scared of the news, bam bam bam ba-ba; Bong...'
But yes, news will always sound scary. It understandably focuses on the worst of what's going on . The doomsday clock's supposedly at 30 seconds to midnight but all this really symbolises is how humanity always goes to the brink and leaves fixes to the last minute.
That's exactly why Zero Hedge was so attractive twelve years ago.
They had the Actual News.
Unfortunately the Actual News IS what is nowadays in the west referred to dismissively as "Conspiracy Theory" and what is peddled to us as "news" is a mixture of facts presented with bias and in some instances, criminal dishonesty.
AND, it has been proven (at least in America by our fellow Autists who are well respected in the "Truth" community) that all the "news" is single source, and repeated with minor changes universally across ALL the regional newsoutlets in the U.S.A.
The fastest Growing News outlet in the U.K. (outstripping sky news already I am told, but have not verified) is called G.B. News ( https://www.gbnews.com/news/ ) I've not used it enough my self to comment but my compatriots tell me it is a bit truthier than the regular stuff, but still satisfyingly proffesional in it's presentation.
I don’t do social media for this very reason and even then I use alternative platforms like GETTR, BitChute and Gab - I’m trying to get to a point where I only look at news updates weekly, preferably monthly, not daily any more, given what I’ve personally witnessed with my family in Rural Ireland on my last visit home to Ireland in Oct 2022, yet I can’t ignore what’s currently going on in Mullingar Co. Westmeath here in Manchester U.K. - I personally saw for myself post-Covid how Ireland has in many respects become a communist country the moment I stepped off the ferry from Holyhead into Dublin which is doubly tragic given our history - I’ve lived 20 years in Manchester at age 52 and Ireland will always be my home, yet what’s going on there is too heartbreaking to witness, especially what’s happening to children in Ireland
I simply believe that the only solution to this is prayer and in my case, it’s my Catholic faith, that has grown stronger since Covid - there will never be a political solution to any of our problems in our world today and never has been in our past either, as our grandparents generation realised, as they were firmly rooted in thier faith - only when mankind returns to God and obeys His Commandments will these problems ever be resolved, so we have to pray and trust in God’s goodness and Mercy, but we have to make the effort in our interior and prayer lives - I too have been heartbroken by the advance of evil in our world in many forms
I simply don’t watch any MSM in any forms, including online since Covid, as it’s full of lies and propaganda and it’s especially bad back home in Communist Ireland even post-Covid - most of my family in Rural Ireland simply can’t get enough of thier hourly fix of RTÉ TV and radio despite the fact that it has been found to be totally corrupted and they don’t realise that they are being totally brainwashed and indoctrinated - I’ve personally trained myself to mentally block out all MSM as most of it is totally unwatchable - it’s on the ferries out of Holyhead and even in Dublin Port, Dublin City Centre and it’s really bad - never in my 20 years living in Manchester have I seen things in Ireland in particular as bad as they have been since Covid and many areas of Dublin that I used to know as a teenager and since 2002 have been totally destroyed in many respects, where they are trying to erase our Irish history, which to myself as a traditional Irish Catholic patriot and decent minded and right thinking older Irish gay man is totally unacceptable - for me, the most heartbreaking aspect of this is what they are doing to children which is doubly tragic given Irish history
I find these well established threads with lots and lots of replies, replies to replies, very hard, in fact often impossible to navigate, however the title of this thread resonates with me so here’s my four penneth, with apologies if it’s off track…
So I spent years and years being triggered by and anxious about the news. I had this inner need to know what was going on though so my periodic absences from news consumption just made my anxiety about the world worse. I tried various print news sources in their day, then umpteen different apps and websites in the recent years, nothing solved it until I remembered what the chap who ran the newsagents where I did a paper round as a child told me, which was “there is only one truly unbiased and independent newspaper and it’s the Financial Times”. So I bit the pay wall bullet and subscribed and it’s absolutely superb.
There’s no bias, no ranting, the politics is handled objectively and the balance of types of article is superb. The reason for all this is that it’s target audience is primarily investors and bankers and financial experts, these people don’t need or want rhetoric and angle and bias, they want and need pure simple facts on which to base very important decisions. So although I’m not actually one of this target audience (I’m a retired librarian) though I do have high level number skills, it satisfies need for awareness in an entirely non triggering way. Best money spent for ages.
i used to see a few little ex military nuclear bunkers for sale when i was looking for property but they have all been taken now... they was a bit small and apparently a few of them had water issues and flooding but they were only like £10k to £20k lol doubt they had electric though.... i also saw a underground ex water container listed in scotland that someone converted into a bunker too.
Although I had had similar thought for the vast majority of my life, I was always determined to survive.
Tomorrow, god willing, I will finally get the negotiations properly started to acquire a small ex-government hardened facility.
I may then have a decent chance of survivng the 800Kt that will be delivered to my local airfield in the event of even the lowest level nuclear strike against our country, which is now an enthusiastic partner in WW3, Which itself is still at the prenuclear stage, but NATO will run out of conventional ammo in mid to end of may...
And if that does not happen, I'll get a nice, safe, secluded workshop with nuclear level security features, which means burglary will not be a threat, even when I leave it unattended.
Kinda funny that Robert, to a calm nihilist like me. Thanks for the smile !
aye the issue is always that we are limited by what information our country makes available. so i maybe limited on info as i have only been using a generic google search typing in "ukraine" to keep up with news on the war.
but if russia did do a draft... then that does call into question their 1.5 million man army... they shouldnt need a draft if they have 1.5 million troops right? they havent lost nearly as much as that, so a draft shoudlnt have been needed yet. so that calls into question russias claim to have 1.5 million troops..
the nukes as i said were from claiming they still hold the soviet stock, but as we saw from germanies old war chest of missiles they were all rotten, that shows russias nukes from the soviet era would too be rotten, not to mention they are harder to maintain... not to mention it costs the uk billions to maintain just 12 nukes...
i feel a big thing in this though is actually china and their capability and whether they are helping russia and supplying them.... i see china as the true threat, they are the worlds industry, everything in the west is made by china. i feel china will likely win the position of world leader and cast down the pax americana. and likely if russia is stronger than they show, then its likely china behind the supply of that strength and capability.
Caelus, you are normally quite well informed and your instincts for truth seem well developed, but you seem to be getting a bit "mainsteam delusional" here about Russia, it's wealth and capabilities.
If you can find the time, (I know you are busy!) track down and listen to some of Scot Ritter and Col Doug Mc Gregor's very qualified and soberly delivered (mostly) assessments and pronouncements abut Russias capabilities and stuff...
Although much of what you will learn will differ from what you have just told us, I reckon you'll be man enough to admit if you find you had poor quality previous information, and chew that wasp! OTOH, between you and the others, if it's my information and sources that are of poor quality, I'll get to readjust my opinion.
For people who really DO just want the truth, irrespective of whether it fits their world view, the outcome of "I think you are wrong" rarely if ever ends in acrimony...
escalation is a possibility but nukes are often last resort. first escalation will be the west and russia entering armed conflict.... russia doesnt want that as they cant even handle ukraine... so escalation cannot afford to happen for russia, but they will want to bluff and claim they would want to escalate. but they dont, and they cant...
you know their 9000 nukes they claim to have are based on the fact the soviet union had that amount of nukes?.... but yet those soviet nukes needed replacing.... they wouldnt have maintained or replaced them, evidenced by western missiles and warheads from that very same time period having been looked on recently and found they had all rotten and been unusable... so those 9000 nukes russia claims to have from the soviet union, they would have all rotten! and they cannot gain the material and tech to remake them very easily... at best, they may have 1 nuke maybe.... maybe 10 at worse.... this is also evidence by the fact russia changed their threats to a threat that they will get the capability to nuke london by last christmas, this threat told me that they didnt have the capability at the time, because they found they had no nukes and christmas was their estimated time to create 1 single nuke at best lol it probably got pushed back with the fact they are struggling to access trade and tech, they cant make new nukes very easily.
heres another silly claim, they think they can set a nuke off in the sea and think it will cause a tidal wave that can cover all of the uk and set us under the sea... .think on that.... how ridiculous is that? .... tell me, the usa has tested over 1000 nukes in the pacific sea, has it ever created a world ending tidal wave? ... no? ... plus to make one that covers all the uk, thats insane, there isnt enough water in the entire worlds seas to drain to create such a large tidal wave as that lol
so you see russia is all lies and bluffs, but its silly lies that are outrageous and impossible, and the reality of their situation betrays that they have barely anything... even their army, what they always claimed to have a 1.5 million man army... go on then where are all of them troops if they cant take ukrained and only set around 100k against ukraine lost most of it and yet decided to draft civilians? ... if they have 1.5 million soldiers they shouldnt need to draft civilians yet... so you see, russia is lying about everything, they are a poor broke nation with no military capability holding onto the status of the old soviet union but they didnt maintain the old soviet power, it instead is a shadow of their greater past they use to threaten us and claim they are as strong, when in reality they are nowhere near as strong at all..... where is their airforce even? lol they havent used it... they could have won if they had a airforce but they dont, they just claim to have one and claim they are not using it because they must like losing? lol they couldnt even maintain basic aircraft that tells me... nuclear warheads? no way they could maintain those....
how many billions does it cost the uk to maintain and keep the triadent nukes running? ...billions and billions... thats just with what 12 nukes we have? now think on that to a claimed 9000 nukes.... and think how poor russia is.... you see how they are lying when you evaluate and analyse the facts? ...they are not as big a threat as they make out.
I follow their instagram page, there is so much good stuff there that simply doesnt get reported in the mainstream media
For example, did you know that the hole in the ozone layer is healing and scientists reckon it will completley disappear within 20 years
