In all honesty, not at all.
The way I see it, a future thermonuclear conflict is inevitable. Almost certainly not during (or instigated by) the conflict in Ukraine, and not necessarily with Putin taking the first shot, either. But, at some point in the future, some country is either going to push the fuck-it button deliberately as an act of aggression or, far more likely, as a response to a false alarm.
There's absolutely no point whatsoever losing sleep over it, though. There's zero we as individuals can do to change the fact that every superpower on earth is armed with enough warheads to literally turn the planet into a nuclear wasteland.
We can campaign for nuclear disarmament, but let's face it, it's an all-or-nothing solution, and there's no fucking way on earth we're going to convince every single nation with a nuclear arsenal to dispose of every one of their weapons.
It'd be more logical to stay up at night worrying that you might get terminal cancer or get mauled to death by a stray dog/murdered during a botched mugging on the way to work. These are things that people potentially may have some form of control over. Nuclear conflict? Not so much.
(, Mon 28 Feb 2022, 22:54, Reply)
