Message #3982

[Jonnie Goodboy]

 ... Well at last. Alex has come out on sunday and admitted that the Pentagon, some historians and analysts (myself I have been going on about it for years) have for some time been calling the 'cold-war' a misnomer or pseudonym for WWIII. That's good. It just didn't end in the much anticipated Nuclear Holocaust.

Remember that a core aspect of the 'Cold-War' was based around the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) defence nuclear Stand-off strategy, that went on for decades. Even my now dead good mate from the RAF spent some time during his obligatory tour-of-duty of the US down a Nuclear Silo, sharing a launch-key with a 'yank'. It was total psychological warfare. If you weren't there, you can't know what it was like. Fear was a massive Power Tool used to wreck Western society. It was ubiquitous and total.

Had I been an Alien I would have left the planet, as it was I did the next best thing and emmigrated. If you stayed put, it seemed to me, you were an alcoholic or 'hard-man' oriented to mind-control, association with criminals and random acts of violence. Who the heck else would want to stay behind and live in a society like this?

Some bad!

So the next one is WWIV. That's good. I just like to get the timeline sorted out, like to know where I am.

But the name is also important. Because in that name, is a slight hope.
That's something that no-one has analysed yet.

The 'Fourth-World' War.