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Mikhail Gorbachev: 'It All Looks as If the World Is Preparing for War'

by wrongc0ntinent on 1/27/17, 3:44 AM with 37 comments

• by nickgrosvenor on 1/27/17, 5:47 AM

  You wonder how the world can sink into war and then you start to understand how it works when you study today's political climate.

  It seems like a slow motion inevitability.

  People's opinions are just so strong.

  To make matters worse, seems like the smartphone revolution has provided quick communication channels that magnify the rhetoric.

  Forget more information at your finger tips, smartphones and the internet provide easier means of finding like-minded people to raise pitchforks with.

• by ak39 on 1/27/17, 5:48 AM

  Scary prospect for us all.

  I read a Pilger article last year that sent chills down my back:

  http://johnpilger.com/articles/a-world-war-has-begun-break-t...

• by kosherbeefcake on 1/27/17, 1:37 PM

  While I'm not discounting the current geo-political climate, but every so often you'll see reports that some calamitous event will occur. When it invariably doesn't occur, no one follows up and says "why did you say that, nothing happened". If it does happen though, they can say "See, I told you so!"

• by nspassov on 1/27/17, 9:30 AM

  Clickbait-y title from Time magazine. No easier way to actually start a war than to talk about it and how the "others" are somehow more prepared.

  Very sad to see such article from one of the few still supposedly reputable publishers.

• by Dk241 on 1/27/17, 1:16 PM

  Oh no, they are concentrating weapons in Europe!

  Maybe we should stop shelling the east of Ukraine and get out of its south (Crimea)?

• by general_ai on 1/27/17, 5:51 AM

  As a former Soviet citizen, I fail to see why anyone would care what this clown has to say. No one in Russia cares, for example. He basically ran a superpower into the ground in 6 years flat, from space shuttle to hunger and abject poverty for most of the population. Not even a CIA puppet regime would be able to do a better job.

• by Intimatik on 1/27/17, 6:57 AM

  Never made this old schizophrenic, he's always keen to get attention