Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@MassimoFaggioli Let's not fool ourselves. An identical religious logic stands on both sides. The American-speaking version? "Just war theory is still applicable to questions in the nuclear age. The principles of 'jus ad bellum' and 'jus in bello' can be applied to the use of nuclear weapons."

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1/ It's perfectly clear once you see it, of course: the spiritual derangement of a modernist worldview offering no exit strategy other than the common, explicitly stated right and readiness to blow the world to smithereens, presents every last one of us with an epochal conundrum.
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Copy of tweet here: 1/ It's perfectly clear once you see it, of course: the spiritual derangement of a modernist worldview offering no exit strategy other than the common, explicitly stated right and readiness to blow the world to smithereens, presents every last one of us with an epochal conundrum.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 23 Dec 2023

@robketterling @BrianZahnd As for googling Good Religious War pimps? A search quickly yields this. The ability to disguise nuclear war as just defines Anti-Christ. So, anybody have an effective response to recent developments upending the nuclear politics historically preventing Armageddon? Hands up, then.

Nick Routledge @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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Nick Routledge @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@shalt_not_kill Thank you for the clarification. I suspect a larger concern relates to Patriarch Krill's advice to Putin "to take fateful, formidable decisions" that "involve victims", precisely at the moment the prospect of a NATO-nuclear encounter takes on sudden, powerful, escalatory impetus.