
Hat tip to Authentic Medicine
Hat tip to Authentic Medicine
Hat tip to Authentic Medicine.
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Gary Larson’s biography is on his web site.
Via XKCD. Hat tip to kottke.org.
The Soviet Union has come and gone, but the crazy logic of nuclear deterrence lives on.
The threat of nuclear weapons is the ultimate threat, but it is a threat only a madman would carry out.
So for the threat to be convincing. you have to convince your opponent you are a madman.
The best way to convince your opponent you are a madman is to actually be a madman/
The second best way is to act so much like a madman that nobody can be sure whether you are or not.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un come to mind in this respect.
The risk is that your act is too successful, and your opponent thinks he has no choice but to strike first.
We’re lucky. Over nearly 70 years, this has not happened. But it only has to happen once.
LINK
A Game of Nuclear Chicken With Russia and China by Micheal Klare for TomDispatch.
Source: xkcd: Masks
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Hat tip to Caitlin Johnstone
Source: INCIDENTAL COMICS.
These drawings are copied from About Face by Nate Powell for Popula.
Click on About Face to see the rest of the sequence.
Click on About Face for the previous part of this sequence.
LINKS
About Face by Nate Powell for Popula.
A veteran and historian responds to Nate Powell’s “About Face” by Sam Duncan for Popula.
The Sum of All Beards by Adrian Boneberger and Adam Weinstein for The New Republic.
Source: Incidental Comics.