Should we be concerned when a Credentialed Media outlet runs an article like this?
To survive nuclear apocalypse, you may have to eat nothing but mushrooms, rats, and insects
An asteroid plummeted through Earth’s atmosphere and crashed into the sea floor about 66 million years ago, causing an explosion over 6,500 times more powerful than the nuclear bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima.
The impact sent clouds of debris and sulfur into Earth’s atmosphere, blocking the sun’s light and warmth for about two years. Photosynthesis ground to a halt, which meant no more plant growth. The surviving dinosaurs starved to extinction.
But fossil records show that fungi thrived in the aftermath.
According to science journalist and Vox editor Bryan Walsh, that makes mushrooms crucial for human survival if such an apocalyptic event were to occur in the future.
Walsh’s 2019 book “End Times” examines how catastrophic events, both natural and human-made, threaten our existence. In it, he points out that three types of potential catastrophes — asteroid impacts, supervolcano eruptions, and nuclear war — all have one thing in common: they could block the sunlight needed to feed plants.
It’s a book from 2019: why are we revisiting this right now, if not for worry that Biden and his European Comrades are going to get the world into a nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine?
In order to survive, he says, people would need to adopt sunlight-free agriculture — cultivating mushrooms, rats, and insects.
That sounds like fun, right?
The west must give Ukraine what it needs
The first anniversary of Russia’s assault on Ukraine has been greeted with soaring rhetoric. Notably, US president Joe Biden stated in Warsaw that “Our support for Ukraine will not waver, Nato will not be divided, and we will not tire. President Putin’s craven lust for land and power will fail. And the Ukrainian people’s love for their country will prevail.” These sentiments are admirable. But is the commitment genuine? Will they in fact do whatever is needed to ensure Ukraine’s survival as an independent democracy?
Even those who demand a negotiated settlement should realise by now that a necessary condition for this outcome is the realisation by Vladimir Putin that the west will not allow him to absorb Ukraine into his empire. His army’s failures over the past year may have caused him some doubts over his ability to do so. But still he believes that Russia will prevail. That is not even an unreasonable view, given the relative size of the principal adversaries and Putin’s control over the human and other resources of his country. The only force able to turn the tide for good is a combination of Ukrainian determination with western resources, both military and financial.
Please stop trying to get us into a world war.
And here’s the NY Times (you can also read it non-paywalled here)
The greatest blunder President Vladimir Putin may have made so far in Ukraine is giving the West the impression that Russia could lose the war. The early Russian strike on Kyiv stumbled and failed. The Russian behemoth seemed not nearly as formidable as it had been made out to be. The war suddenly appeared as a face-off between a mass of disenchanted Russian incompetents and supercharged, savvy Ukrainian patriots.
Such expectations naturally ratcheted up Ukrainian war aims. President Volodymyr Zelensky was once a member of the peace-deal camp in Ukraine. “Security guarantees and neutrality, non-nuclear status of our state. We are ready to go for it,” he declared one month into the conflict. Now he calls for complete victory: the reconquering of every inch of Russian-occupied territory, including Crimea. Polls indicate that Ukrainians will settle for nothing less. As battles rage across Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine’s leaders and some of their Western backers are already dreaming of Nuremberg-style trials of Mr. Putin and his inner circle in Moscow.
The trouble is that Ukraine has only one surefire way of accomplishing this feat in the near term: direct NATO involvement in the war. Only the full, Desert Storm style of deployment of NATO and U.S. troops and weaponry could bring about a comprehensive Ukrainian victory in a short period of time. (Never mind that such a deployment would most likely shorten the odds of one of the grimmer prospects of the war: The more Russia loses, the more it is likely to resort to nuclear weapons.)
The article tries to take a more analytical, neutral stance, but, it does show that Biden and his Euro allies really do not know what they’re doing. The rest is an interesting read.
Ukraine needs a government that isn’t corrupt and run by literal Nazis. Can we give them that?
That government formed by a free Ukraine is for them to decide. Zelensky is a brave and honorable man, but Ukraine has a long history of corruption and instability.
The far-right/neoNazi/anti-Semitic factions in Ukraine (eg, Azov Battalion) fighting against Russia are a cause for concern but do not represent the heart of Ukraine.
The objective of the US and allies is to keep Putin from taking Ukraine.
Nope. The American left loves the Nazis. They both hate Christians and Jews. Oh, and non leftist white folks and us niggas. Leftists MUST feel superior or they cry.
You’re an idiot.
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Once again Mr Teach blames Ukraine, President Biden and the West for Putin’s invasion.
Russia invaded Ukraine and was unprovoked.
The American right either supports Russia or opposes the West’s defense of Ukraine.
The right’s excuses for Russia include: Ukrainian Nazis, potential nuclear holocaust, hiding Biden’s corruption in Ukraine, Russia will stop with Ukraine, Obama let Putin have Crimea, Zelensky is corrupt…
Rimjob: The American right either supports Russia or opposes the West’s defense of Ukraine.
Which is patently untrue, dipshit.
If the defense of Ukraine is so goddam important why doesn’t Europe commit the same resources on par with the US? In simpler terms, “hold up their end of the couch.”
Ya know “whatever it takes”.
#LetsGoBrandon
Bwaha! Lolgf
That’s a lie and you know it. The US and our allies provoked Russia over the last two years hinting and pushing Ukraine to join NATO something Russia said it will not permit. Quite understandable since why would Russia want a nuclear NATO alliance on it’s border? Like why would the USA want nukes in Cuba? Same thing. Was JFK wrong when he almost started WWIII over the Cuban Missile Crisis?
When it finally looked as though Ukraine would join NATO Russia invaded to halt the incursion. Remember Russia disbanded the Warsaw Pact we still have the very war like NATO prepared to fight Russia.
As usual you are completely unable (unwilling?) to see both sides. You do that with everything from abortion to election fraud. We’re used to your closed mindedness.
Mr Dowd apparently got his talking points e-mail from the DNC:
Translation: if you don’t support complete and total support for Ukraine, you are figuratively — if not literally — fellating Vladimir Putin.
Can anyone remember when the left were saying that dissent is patriotic? It wasn’t that long ago!
I get emails and texts constantly from candidates begging for money but trash them, but don’t recall any from the DNC.
The most likely reason MAGAts oppose defending Ukraine is 1) Brandon is for it and 2) Trump is against it.
It’s not fear of Nazis, WWIII, nukes, corruption etc.
At what point does the West legitimately oppose Russian invasions? Only if Russia directly attack the United States?
Lol
Blacks overwhelmingly vote for the Democratic party. They have done so for almost 100 years. If you don’t you are not in the majority but instead a small minority of your race.
Jews also vote overwhelmingly Democratic and hold many of the top posts in their party
Those are facts.
As far as nuclear war? The USA will not bend over to dictators who threaten us nuclear weapons and that includes North Korea’s Kim
We will not give in to their demands or threats
Show some back bone Teach. Did you let bullies push you around at Blaine?
Grow a pair.
Johnny-“Blacks and Jews overwhelmingly vote democratic…”. Groomers, too
LOL Dems don’t campaign for votes. Dems mobilize for countable ballots. Democrats vote for a living. Cheat-By-Mail is their job.
Most blacks and Jews do vote democommie. That neither makes them intelligent not correct. In fact it makes them obviously neither.
I’m not a nigga so I vote for God and Country. I work and refuse to live in the lefts ghetto so screw you.
Homicide doesn’t even make the CDC’s top 10 causes of death for men in America, but it’s number four for black men. Among black men under the age of 20, homicide is the leading cause of death. Of any racial group most young black men are being murdered. And it’s only getting worse. And they’re being murdered by other black men although if you listen to radical nuDemocommies it must be those white supremacists and nationalists under their beds who are doing all the killing. And still those dumb niggas vote Dem.
Same hysteria as in the 50s.
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