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How seriously are we taking the possibility of World War III?
What & how much are we doing to prevent it from happening?
Shouldn't we get rid of leaders juggling with nukes used as leverage to extort concessions?

One month before the nuclear apocalypse drama "The Day After" aired on ABC in November 1983,
"... President Ronald Reagan screened an advance copy, then confessed his reaction to his diary:

["] It has Lawrence Kansas wiped out in a nuclear war with Russia. It is powerfully done—all $7 mil. worth. It’s very effective & left me greatly depressed … Whether it will be of help to the “anti nukes” or not, I cant [sic] say. My own reaction was one of our having to do all we can to have a deterrent & to see there is never a nuclear war.
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However, what’s merely stupid today could become more apocalyptic tomorrow.
We have too many egotistical sociopathic leaders—in America, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Russia, and the Arab states—who would rather flex their masculinity with bombs and social media bravado than make concessions or cede power in the name of global stability.
And that’s not going to change until people put pressure on them to change. That’s obviously difficult to accomplish with dictatorial leadership, which is why the people in the democracies of America and Israel are best positioned to break the cycle of idiocracy.
Voters should demand new, serious leaders who will get the world back on the two-state solution bicycle.
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https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/12/remember-when-we-used-to-take-world-war-iii-seriously/