Post 420. MY FATHER'S PREDICTION

AT NEWS OF THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB.

THAT WILL BE THE END OF THE WORLD.
He suffered neither fools nor pessimists gladly, my father, but his prediction when we heard the news that scientists had split the atom to make a bomb was stark:
"Now they'll try to outdo each other until they produce something that wipes out entire countries. That will be the end of the world."
He died in the late nineteen fifties before quite so many mad bastards in power had joined the nuclear rat race. I so hoped at the time he would be wrong, but am too often reminded how seldom he was. Now the maddest mad bastard in power, Putin, is at it again.
The destruction of Ukraine is his doing. The buck stops at the top. перестань ты маньяк!
Or in plain English, if the translation is right: Stop it, you maniac!
Enough said. I may be more flippant next time. But not about this war.