ZOMG Cold War Sequel!!!1! - A Completely Uninformed Political Opinion
So...yes, just when you thought we were all set to drown from rising sea levels, axphyxiate from Carbon polluting the air like so much gaseous wholemeal bread, or get shot/blown up/stabbed by any number of the enthnic minorities within our own county, we find out that we're all about to get nuked instead.
Why?
Well, it seems that the USA, fearing that a 'Rogue State' (I'm not sure what that means - it must have something to do with their CHA and DEX ratings or something) may just lob a nuclear missile over the pond and into some unsuspecting sod's back garden, have made plans to set up a missile defence network in Erope, operating out of Poland and...somewhere else...that place below it, the Chech Republic? Maybe. Whatever.
This will essentially consist of a battery or two of Interceptor misslies and a radar station, fully capable of locking onto a missile in-flight and destroy it. Oddly enough, this doesn't seem like a terrible idea, after all, if you've spent that past 20-30 years bombing the feck out of a fair few Asian countries, you may want to have something to catch the retaliatory actions when they come.
But Putin, in a characteristing showing of heavy-handedness (I take it you've heard about what happens when terrorists attack Russian targets, right? Everyone dies, usually by the actions of the police or government forces), has threatened to bring Russia's nuclear arsernal to bear on Europe.
Frankly, this is like hearing that your neighbour, who you don't particularly like, has put up a big fence between the two of you. So in retaliation, you threaten to blow it, them and the company who installed it to smithereens with a bazooka. I know the USA can't exactly claim to have a smarter leader, but this is plain crazy.
So, I heartily reccomend that you start leaving all your lights on, driving up and down the stairs and holding huge bonfuire parties over the next few eeeks. That way, we can drown ourselves through global warming before we all get nuked.
Ta!
Why?
Well, it seems that the USA, fearing that a 'Rogue State' (I'm not sure what that means - it must have something to do with their CHA and DEX ratings or something) may just lob a nuclear missile over the pond and into some unsuspecting sod's back garden, have made plans to set up a missile defence network in Erope, operating out of Poland and...somewhere else...that place below it, the Chech Republic? Maybe. Whatever.
This will essentially consist of a battery or two of Interceptor misslies and a radar station, fully capable of locking onto a missile in-flight and destroy it. Oddly enough, this doesn't seem like a terrible idea, after all, if you've spent that past 20-30 years bombing the feck out of a fair few Asian countries, you may want to have something to catch the retaliatory actions when they come.
But Putin, in a characteristing showing of heavy-handedness (I take it you've heard about what happens when terrorists attack Russian targets, right? Everyone dies, usually by the actions of the police or government forces), has threatened to bring Russia's nuclear arsernal to bear on Europe.
Frankly, this is like hearing that your neighbour, who you don't particularly like, has put up a big fence between the two of you. So in retaliation, you threaten to blow it, them and the company who installed it to smithereens with a bazooka. I know the USA can't exactly claim to have a smarter leader, but this is plain crazy.
So, I heartily reccomend that you start leaving all your lights on, driving up and down the stairs and holding huge bonfuire parties over the next few eeeks. That way, we can drown ourselves through global warming before we all get nuked.
Ta!