Notices by Joe Wein (joewein@mastodon.social)

Yesterday I felt three pretty moderate #earthquakes here in #Tokyo, all from an epicenter off the east coast of Chiba peninsula. This morning I felt another one, stronger than the earlier ones.

I do feel at least one quake a month here in Tokyo, but this is an unusual cluster. I will definitely check on my emergency preparations, just to be safe because eventually we will have a big one again.

@graydon
There certainly are Evangelicals waiting for the Rapture and Armageddon, but their orange messiah is not one of them (he only believes in himself). He uses them and they use him (as do the Russians), but ultimately it's not about religion.

The US military would do best in a world without nukes because of its conventional superiority while for Russia its nukes are basically the only reason it currently occupies the Soviet seat in the UNSC.

If the US withholds support, letting #Ukraine be defeated, "(it) means the elimination of the U.S. as a security guarantor for Europe," says Anne Applebaum on PBS. She is right.

Without the US as a security guarantor for Europe, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, all of these current allies will be pushed towards acquiring #NuclearWeapons -- like Israel had already done before the US became its strongest ally in 1967.

Betray Ukraine, kiss goodbye to nuclear #nonproliferation