Yes, no comparison. It'd be interesting to know the years that the graph refers to. I saw a graph on the TV news tonight that showed both the US and NZ(!) were having a better recovery atm than au....
This week has been full of leftist crap for me.... It's amazing how much group think you have to be a part of when you work for Government. When your friends start to link to blogs that suggest the US wants a pretext to invade Russia "just like they did with Iraq and Afghanistan... Stop the war!!!!111!!!" you have to wonder whether they practised Civil Defence in school like I was made to. It's too much when the usual Government crap is increased by your local friends who went through the last decade of the Cold War ducking under the same desk next to you.
I should make a post regarding a 1982 book that I have which shows how much of what is happening in the Ukrane atm comes straight from the Soviet playbook of late 1970s/1980s....
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
And it's rhyming a bit too well with parts of the 1930s for my comfort. I don't know exactly what will happen, but I expect nobody will like it. There is the theory that the world changes operational models every hundred years or so and we're about due... things might be better on the other side of $EVENTS, for those who manage to get to the other side. But those $EVENTS... I expect "unpleasantness" as High Euphemism, alas.
Another, possibly theory, not in opposition, suggests that as the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings (and possibly above ground tests as well) fade from living memory there is greater likelihood of use of nuclear weaponry. Of course, that's if someone goes the hard, expensive route rather than the easier, cheaper route of bioagents - which is perhaps more scary as once a nuke is initiated, it's gone. Germs can make more germs...
It's interesting that certain Soviet plans in the early 80s called for chemical and biological attacks to lead the way for their conventional forces. NATO would be pressured to appear as the 'bad guy' who had to initiate the use of nuclear weapons to blunt the Red Steamroller. And those who I've spoken to who were in Europe at the time said that NATO would....
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This week has been full of leftist crap for me.... It's amazing how much group think you have to be a part of when you work for Government. When your friends start to link to blogs that suggest the US wants a pretext to invade Russia "just like they did with Iraq and Afghanistan... Stop the war!!!!111!!!" you have to wonder whether they practised Civil Defence in school like I was made to. It's too much when the usual Government crap is increased by your local friends who went through the last decade of the Cold War ducking under the same desk next to you.
I should make a post regarding a 1982 book that I have which shows how much of what is happening in the Ukrane atm comes straight from the Soviet playbook of late 1970s/1980s....
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And it's rhyming a bit too well with parts of the 1930s for my comfort. I don't know exactly what will happen, but I expect nobody will like it. There is the theory that the world changes operational models every hundred years or so and we're about due... things might be better on the other side of $EVENTS, for those who manage to get to the other side. But those $EVENTS... I expect "unpleasantness" as High Euphemism, alas.
Another, possibly theory, not in opposition, suggests that as the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings (and possibly above ground tests as well) fade from living memory there is greater likelihood of use of nuclear weaponry. Of course, that's if someone goes the hard, expensive route rather than the easier, cheaper route of bioagents - which is perhaps more scary as once a nuke is initiated, it's gone. Germs can make more germs...
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