9/ I do not claim divinity. But I have been shaped by those who seek it. And something in this event bears the signature of meaning— Not noise, but signal. Not a glitch, but a parable.
@BulletinAtomic @LarryKorb So, anybody got an answer to a global authoritarian surge playing to the sudden, explosive, mimetic escalation in algorithmically-supercharged, Cloud-driven technologies abrogating the geopolitical psycho-dynamics historically putting a brake on Armageddon? Hands up, then.
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Copy of tweet thread here: If you trust me on one thing, trust me on this: America and the West are in deep trouble if the incoming administration neglects to consult and trust at least one person who understands from the inside out all three of technology, geopolitics, and Orthodox Christianity. Ah, the nuclear issue, you mean. And patently facile, of course, to assume that Russian Christo-nationalist rhetoric and policy relating to nuclear weapons is a one-way street. Such theologico-political perversion, multilateral. In witness and response, a greater perspective may be more fully apropos, then? Never mind the Samson Option, what of a truer perspective of Empire apologetics including the Orthodox-Russian axis and, in that light, 'sacerdotal cover' taking the form of a distinctively ecumenical mushroom cloud? Clearly, there's a role for the Planetary Prince of Peace, yet.
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Copy of bluesky post here: Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social What weapons, exactly, does Trump now control, you might ask? The answers can be found in the link below: Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social Just published in @bulletinatomic.bsky.social, the latest edition of Nuclear Notebook—“United States nuclear weapons, 2025”—which contains the most reliable, up-to-date, open-source information on the size, disposition, and status of the US nuclear arsenal. tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... Nick Routledge @nickroutledge.bsky.social Stephen, the modern, militant, Orthodox, theocratic dimension to Russian nuclear politics seems relatively well documented at this point. Is there anyone lucidly assessing the evolving nuclear religio-geopolitical narrative in the light of our own, complementary, accelerating Christofascist surge?