I'm 32, and I disagree. "Mutually assured destruction" still applies. The only real threat of nuclear or dirty virus bomb stuff is from those that have no fear of death because they believe in an Afterlife. Russians know death is real. I guess old man Putin could do something crazy, if I was facing the end of all my life, I might go out on a big bang.

FYI "we" did nothing wrong. Russia can't keep itself from trying to take over its neighbors. It's not just Ukraine, look up Russian attacks on other countries. And these attacks cannot be compared to recent US led military efforts. Different goals, different strategies, and vastly different regions. And the US hasn't attacked a neighbor since the American Mexican War. I don't want to hear any of that false equivocation crap.

yep used listen to this when i was a kid

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it's just the old greed that's been pretty central to the human condition ever since we stopped being nomadic. bunch of super rich wastes of life have been lobbying and finessing their way through the places that matter - it's capitalism at its finest, the rich do everhthing in their power to keep the poor poor, occupied, and if possible overworked and at each other's throats while they gradually change society into giving themselves and their mates more and more advantages. no need for extraterrestrials, just plain old parasites of society that exploit and oppress anything they can get their disgusting little hands on. there most likely are aliens out there somewhere, so you already sound way less crazy to me than someone who comes up with things like "god appointed trump as president" but just think about this: you're part of an alien race that's advanced enough to travel to other planets - imagine finding us, a self deluding, self destroying, genocidal, oppressive bunch of nearly hairless apes who can't even solve basic problems they already have solutions to like starvation - idk about you but I'd steer clear of that place, why would you want to control such an inept and aggressive life form? they'd already have better technology, probably figured out solutions to our petty squabbles a while ago or they wouldn't have got to this point, and can get all the resources they want from wherever they want. not worth the risk of being discovered just to have the apes start shooting everything from arrows over bullets to rockets and nukes your way. if there is advanced life out there and they know about us, we humans are definitely the weird kid nobody wants to talk to on the playground