Jumpin on 04 October 2024
| Ranchius said: Probably not. We made it through over 40 years of the cold-war without it escalating into another world war, and the most critical events during that period were arguably more severe than the situation we're in right now. |
Yeah, people don't realize how crazy the Cold War actually was. The lines which were crossed. But as a reminder of how bad things were even during the lifetimes of some of us, in the 1980s (Andropov era). It's difficult to appreciate how much close we were to open war between the first and second world.
A few weeks after this event, nuclear war almost happened:
Last edited by Jumpin - on 04 October 2024I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
