Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@jeffreyatucker @brownstoneinst Surprisingly rare, such plain-spoken, common sense. Then again, our key predicament remains. *How*, practically, do we address a form of 'sleepwalking' currently affording us no realistic *waking* - which is to say *exit* - strategy, other than catastrophic nuclear annhiliation?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 8 Apr 2023

@bfcarlson Final words: "We've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament and we ought to recognize this common predicament." ~ Rheinhold Niebuhr

Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge For the record, I once asked the Kremlin's then foremost nukes advisor (on a non-NATO expansion tour of the US; which brought me to dinner with her and, later, a public question) how long it would take to de-alert the entire US-USSR arsenal. Her answer? Interesting... 8:48 AM · Aug 7, 2020
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge For the record, I once asked the Kremlin's then foremost nukes advisor (on a non-NATO expansion tour of the US; which brought me to dinner with her and, later, a public question) how long it would take to de-alert the entire US-USSR arsenal. Her answer? Interesting... 8:48 AM · Aug 7, 2020

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Quoted by@Fyodor34664866 @caitoz Also, it was around the 1999 DC 'NATO enlargement summit' that a formal Russian effort at grassroots outreach, speaking of the existential threat to everyone they clearly perceived in NATO's eastward push, came Stateside to plead directly with American citizens, face-to-face...Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis Our 'war of all against all' exponentiated to the geo-political level of nation-state dynamics? A mob of False Deliverers offering up gathering points for national anguish? Endings foretold by countless prophets. Why the mimetic escalation, now? Girard, as apt as any. It's Time.Quoted by@lukeburgis Our 'war of all against all' exponentiated to the geo-political level of nation-state dynamics? A mob of False Deliverers offering up gathering points for national anguish? Endings foretold by countless prophets. Why the mimetic escalation, now? Girard, as apt as any. It's Time.