[Skybird]

Once tensions feel like in autumn 1983 again, I will agree to be concerned again.

In that autumn, I was 16 back then, the world escaped global nuclear war TWICE by just a hairbreadth. Not before many years later most of us who already were living back then learned how close our encounter with armageddon was in those weeks. First a malfunctioning Sovjet satellite reporting an American missile launch, and then, just a few weeks later after that was resolved by a Russian Lieutenant-Colonel, a misinterpretation by the Sovjets of NATO exercise Able Archer, leading to Sovjet nuclear bombers armed with live nuclear bombs and standing with running engines on the runways, and German cities being 10 minutes away from annihilation.

Compared to that autumn's secret events, what there is today in tensions is relatively boring.

It is events like these two almost-desasters that make me so extrenely pessimistic about our chances to get away with another nuclear arms race in the religiously upheated and highly irrational ME. Compared to that outlook, I prefer to get the Sovjets back. Different to some rleigous idiots in the ME, the Sowjets never wanted to commit suicide for nothing.