The world is facing unprecedented challenges: climate change, nuclear proliferation, the impending dissolution of NATO, AI, and social media. Will our civilization survive the coming decades? (3,100w)
Nah Émile, you’re wrong. The Doomsday Clock will NOT move because Trump will post on Truth Social saying:
“THE BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS WILL NOT BE MOVING THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK!!! I HAVE SPOKEN TO ALL OF THEM AND THEY ALL NOW AGREE THEY WERE SUFFERING FROM TDS, AND WILL NOW MOVE IT TO 1 BILLION YEARS TO MIDNIGHT. ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE IS SPREADING FAKE NEWS AND IS ALSO PROBABLY A LIBERAL. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Come on Émile, get your head in the game. You’ve been in Europe for far too long.
Thanks Emile. Your analysis appears to me spot on. Regardless of the Doomsday clock or what the Bulletin does with it, we, the world, are living in very dire times. I was a Cold Warrior, when cloaked hostilities between the USSR were at their peak and the prospect of global nuclear war was always on our minds. Since the early 90's that prospect had largely retreated. Until now. Trump is a deranged megalomaniac being fed a constant stream of batshit crazy megalomaniacal lunacy from an equally deranged Steven Miller. And we are only a year into this nightmare. I do not see how this ends well, for anyone.
You know what’s scary? It’s not impossible that insidious forces conspire to somehow make them move it backwards. That’s how far into la-la land we are.
Wondering about the differences between your chosen label of "plutocratic oligarchy" vs "competitive authoritarian regime" (which I'm noticing pop up). Maybe at this point, it's not urgent to parse these things, everything is in such rapid motion and evolving before our eyes.
But I am curious, so perhaps that might come up for you to extrapolate on in another post! 🙌
Nah Émile, you’re wrong. The Doomsday Clock will NOT move because Trump will post on Truth Social saying:
“THE BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS WILL NOT BE MOVING THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK!!! I HAVE SPOKEN TO ALL OF THEM AND THEY ALL NOW AGREE THEY WERE SUFFERING FROM TDS, AND WILL NOW MOVE IT TO 1 BILLION YEARS TO MIDNIGHT. ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE IS SPREADING FAKE NEWS AND IS ALSO PROBABLY A LIBERAL. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Come on Émile, get your head in the game. You’ve been in Europe for far too long.
/s!!!
Thanks Emile. Your analysis appears to me spot on. Regardless of the Doomsday clock or what the Bulletin does with it, we, the world, are living in very dire times. I was a Cold Warrior, when cloaked hostilities between the USSR were at their peak and the prospect of global nuclear war was always on our minds. Since the early 90's that prospect had largely retreated. Until now. Trump is a deranged megalomaniac being fed a constant stream of batshit crazy megalomaniacal lunacy from an equally deranged Steven Miller. And we are only a year into this nightmare. I do not see how this ends well, for anyone.
You know what’s scary? It’s not impossible that insidious forces conspire to somehow make them move it backwards. That’s how far into la-la land we are.
Wondering about the differences between your chosen label of "plutocratic oligarchy" vs "competitive authoritarian regime" (which I'm noticing pop up). Maybe at this point, it's not urgent to parse these things, everything is in such rapid motion and evolving before our eyes.
But I am curious, so perhaps that might come up for you to extrapolate on in another post! 🙌
Just posted a deep‑dive teaser on how foreign powers weaponize America’s internal chaos:
https://substack.com/@geopoliticsinplainsight/note/c-198193128