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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. []