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Uncle Joe

(58,564 posts)
8. That's the kind of logic that will inevitably lead to World War III
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 02:45 PM
Mar 6

"It's a war. War is not meant to be proportional."

(snip)

There is a striking photo, taken in 2015, of a deactivated nuclear missile at an air and space museum in Tucson, Arizona. Written in dust on this missile are the words, “Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”. These words, from the Sanskrit scriptural text the Bhagavad Gita, are famously attributed to J Robert Oppenheimer, the architect of the atom bomb.

https://theconversation.com/now-i-am-become-death-the-destroyer-of-worlds-the-bhagavad-gita-explained-214365#:~:text=Written%20in%20dust%20on%20this,architect%20of%20the%20atom%20bomb.

(snip)

Back in the olden days, war may not have not been proportional but neither was freedom and that's why the United Nations was created in the first place.

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