RT @nick_routledge: @aspiringpeasant Clearly, you've seen a thing or two, Dave. Shopworn platitudes, the last thing you need. Me, I find that being a locus where the cycle of violence and retaliation ends, demands owning everyone's hatred, fear and suffering, no matter how dark, at all levels, however long it takes.
@Plough 2/ Concomitantly, this vastly-enhanced, explosive, authoritarian surge correlates with complementary mimetic trends subverting the geopolitical psycho-dynamics historically putting a brake on Armageddon. We desperately need an immediate, radical revisioning of the problem of war.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge with unattributed just-war quotation Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Let's not fool ourselves Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1847089114572861841 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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." t.co/d2b4d3WEA3 t.co/uM4d3YPABN Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "American-speaking just-war/nuclear-weapons quotation in top post", "reason": "Full pictured words and exact Nick post saved; quotation's original speaker/author is not named in image or exact saved post. MassimoFaggioli is addressee, not proof of quote authorship."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 It's perfectly clear Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1847089114572861841 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Tweet: 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. Subtweets: 'a tiny flaw in the plan.' 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… 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? 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 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 [This image, a graphic edit for the original image here: to fit the total image on a smartphone. No elements are altered, except their graphic representation.] Second Tweet here: Do not fret because of the wicked; Do not envy those who do evil: For they wither quickly like grass And fade like the green of the fields. #Psalm37 10/10 Subtweet: Her delivery surprised me more than the final answer, frankly. Essentially post-partisan, it was lengthy, lucid, highly technical and extremely thorough. Very clearly, she'd done the research, and relished an opportunity for a major download. As for wrap up? '24 hours,' she said. [] Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "American-speaking just-war/nuclear-weapons quotation in top post", "reason": "Full pictured words and exact Nick post saved; quotation's original speaker/author is not named in image or exact saved post. MassimoFaggioli is addressee, not proof of quote authorship."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: As for googling Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1847089114572861841 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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. t.co/oWELIaxGda t.co/WlO7jBiqto Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "American-speaking just-war/nuclear-weapons quotation in top post", "reason": "Full pictured words and exact Nick post saved; quotation's original speaker/author is not named in image or exact saved post. MassimoFaggioli is addressee, not proof of quote authorship."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: For the record Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 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 Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "American-speaking just-war/nuclear-weapons quotation in top post", "reason": "Full pictured words and exact Nick post saved; quotation's original speaker/author is not named in image or exact saved post. MassimoFaggioli is addressee, not proof of quote authorship."}]
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