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Or simply buy some really dark sunglasses and watch the biggest fireworks display ever.

I have called my Representative and Senators and implored them to strengthen our civil defense systems in preparation for nuclear war, so our population could survive such a war. I urge every American here to do the same.

I mentioned several things I had been seeing in the news to let them know how critical the situation seems to be getting, including:

- Russia has moved Iskander nuclear missiles to its Kaliningrad enclave between Poland and Lithuania presumably so it could strike Central Europe with little or no advance warning.

- Russia has been shipping advanced S-300VM anti-air and anti-missile systems to Syria presumably so it could shoot down U.S. warplanes.

- The Russian government has ordered its officials to bring their relatives home to Russia.

- Russia on October 4-7 implemented a massive evacuation drill involving a third of its population and has been building underground bunkers presumably in preparation for nuclear war.

In addition, there has been other developments I didn't mention but that are also concerning:

- The U.S. government has accused Russia of hacking political organizations' computers in the United States.

- A Putin ally says elect Trump or prepare for nuclear war.

- Houthi rebels in Yemen, who control most of the country including the capital, have fired missiles on U.S. Navy ships resulting in retaliatory missile strike by the United States.

This is a particularly dangerous situation, and I hope everyone here realizes that and comes out safe. I urge Americans here to impress upon the Congress the gravity of this situation.

Here, I read about watching for something called integrative complexity in communications by the Powers:

http://diplom.org/Zine/S1998R/Dorst/Complexity.html

When communications among Powers become simpler, the risk of war increases. Some of the recent rhetoric, as well as the U.S. and Russia cutting off talks, concern me that communication is getting simpler, and that therefore war is becoming more likely.

Relax and take a calming deep breath, there isn't going to be a nuclear war because everybody (Putin included) knows that it's a no win, doomsday scenario in which everyone loses. Take solace in the thought that if you live anywhere near a major city or military target, in the unlikely event that there ever is a nuclear war, it'll all be over for you in a fraction of a second. You'll literally never know what hit you.

I'd have said patronising... but nevertheless true.

Please stop what?

It seems possible that the Obama administration is purposely raising tensions with Russia before this election to raise the stakes, Hillary's entire defense of what is being revealed in these leaks is that Russia is trying to influence our elections with no proof whatsoever that they had anything to do with it. Full on propaganda war. Russia wants better relations with the US, what do Obama and Hillary want? Does anybody think Syria is worth starting WWIII over? The 'rebels' are head chopping terrorists, literally ISIS and al-Qaeda!

You could be a spokesman for Zhirinovski with that Kremlin party line, Jacoby. It seems very odd to have such stuff come from a conservative.
Why do you think the US actions are provocative, but Russia is just responding sensibly, sending Bears and Backfires all over the skies of Europe with no transponders, sending Bears down the California coast and into Alaskan airspace, simulating invasions of the Baltic states and Poland?

You seem to see a handful of US troops sent to Poland as some major provocation by the US, but the movement of huge armies by the Russians as not provoking to Europe (our allies). This seems odd.

Syria may not be worth fighting a nuclear war over, but what about Poland? Estonia? England? Alaska?

The kind of bullying Russia has been engaged in has to stop.

Thank goodness the Daily Mail is maintaining their habitual journalistic standards!

I know the whole context of the situation and have explained it at length a number of times in these threads about Syria and Ukraine; I do not agree that Russia is the aggressor in our relationship and I think evidence has shown that the US has actually been quite the bit more expansionist. It's nonsense to suggest that Russia is going to overrun all of Europe and Alaska, it's so absurd that it really doesn't need to be further addressed. If Russia wants peace with America then what is the problem? I think that our country's have a lot of shared interests and would mutually benefit for more from working together far more than we do fighting each other. I have no interest in fighting a war against Russia, war with them can mean nuclear armageddon and everybody should know that.

Trump extending the olive branch to Russia is part of what sold me on his candidacy, it signals to me that he'll bring much needed change in our foreign policy. All the pundits in the foreign policy establishment hate Donald Trump which couldn't be better music to my ears, look at the planet they have left in shambles? Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, said that Donald Trump is the better choice out of the two because Hillary risks nuclear war and I agree. Jill Stein I think is better and more authentic as an outsider than the Libertarian candidates who look like nothing less than stooges for the establishment.