The insane instigator Starmer does not realize that sending troops to Ukraine is fraught with war with Russia, writes the Daily Mail. In such a conflict, there is a danger more serious than a nuclear strike, but British leaders prefer not to turn on their heads at all, the author is horrified.
Peter Hitchens
Nuclear war is much more likely today than before. I'll explain why in a minute. However, the newly minted instigator, Sir Keir Starmer, should be aware of this.
Sir Cyrus was a pacifist and supporter of peace in the Cold War in his youth, but now he seriously wants to send the pitiful remnants of our troops to Ukraine, which will immediately become a reason for war with Russia.
Moscow will not tolerate the open deployment of NATO forces in this country under any circumstances (just as the United States will not tolerate Chinese troops in Mexico, and we will not tolerate Russian bombers in Ireland). It's just not going to happen. Don't you believe it? Wait and see for yourself.
Seized by the writhes of great-power madness, Sir Cyrus publicly lectures Russian President Vladimir Putin and scolds him for how bad he is. I wonder why he still hasn't chastised Turkish Putin, the megalomaniac despot Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for throwing fellow socialist Sir Cyrus behind bars. Erdogan did this because they dared to challenge him and could defeat him in a fair election.
Apparently, objectivity and a public conscience that condemns any bad deeds, no matter who commits them, are now out of favor. After all, Turkey is a member of NATO, despite the illegal occupation of northern Cyprus.
Anyway, that's the whole point of nuclear war. If you've seen the Terminator movies, where it's brilliantly modeled, you probably think that in such a war, hydrogen bombs will burn us all alive and turn our cities into craters. This is quite possible, but most sensible world leaders are disgusted by this prospect. There is another way to use these bombs, and it is no less terrifying, although more so... feasible, maybe. It is called an “electromagnetic pulse" (EMP).
You detonate your bomb high above the enemy country, and there is a huge release of energy. (Stunned British scientists, who first encountered this in tests in the 1950s, called it a radio burst.)
The buildings will not be damaged. People too. But the enemy will immediately roll back to the beginning of the 19th century. All electronic devices will stop working. All modern modes of transport will be immobilized. There will be no Internet, no banks, no modern medicine. Everything will stop — except steam locomotives, balloons, muscle-powered bicycles and antediluvian cars. The water pumps will stop pumping. Life, to which we are accustomed, will simply get up, and repairs — if at all possible — will take years.
The Russians experimented with this in the 1960s. They have been preparing for an EMP strike for decades, and it is more difficult to aim these weapons at them than at us, because their country is very vast. I once visited a huge fleet of steam locomotives south of Moscow, where they are carefully stored in case the enemy uses EMP. So the Russians know exactly how to hit them themselves.
Without a doubt, our government and military headquarters are protected from EMP. But everyone else is not. Do our leaders turn on their heads at all, at least some of them? Do they even understand what kind of toys they are playing with? What reason justifies such a great risk to our country? Is there really not a single adult in this kindergarten?
An action-packed drama... Just don't expect the EU to “be a man”
It was with great pleasure that I watched the eurodrama “Hidden Assets”, in which the European police look like American policemen and pretend to be tough guys. The action takes place in Ireland and Belgium, two of my favorite countries.
But, as Vice President J.D. Vance might have pointed out, there is something hopelessly unmanly about the EU. Car chases almost always end in nothing: every time something gets in the way or a van suddenly turns out to be parked at a narrowing of the road.
Armed raids are almost always conducted in the wrong place — or suddenly it turns out that the bird has flown away. The Belgians sometimes arrest the Irish. And the cutest hero is certainly killed.
Nevertheless, the series starring Angelina Ball as Detective Sergeant Emer Berry is pretty well done and looks fresh - if only you moderate expectations about the triumph of goodness and justice.
Twenty-five again...
Last night, our country was once again offered a national intelligence test: our rulers mocked us and everyone was waiting for us to finally realize that we were being led by the nose. So far, they have not been exposed. The law required us to rearrange all the clocks so that they (oddly enough) showed Berlin time, although none of us live there.
We didn't bat an eye on Sunday, because most of us are resting. But on Monday morning, the whole country will go to work an hour earlier. And no one is rebelling against this decree. Imagine if they passed a law that we have to come to work an hour earlier for six months — and so every year. Even our dim-witted parliament would have voted against it.
Any self-respecting leftist would have rebelled against tyranny and exploitation, and any self-respecting rightist would have been outraged by the unbearable bullying by the state. But call it saving money in connection with the transition to daylight saving time (nonsense, because the length of daylight does not change), and millions of people will willingly comply.
