Their disarmament was a key in the deescalation that dominated the 90s.
Russia even asked NATO during that time, but was denied.
Things did not improve from there.
It started with NATOs involvement in Yugoslavia.
Then continued with the US Invasion in Iraq.
Continued, after a brief pause of half a decade, with the invasion of Afghanistan.
Then Iraq again.
Then meddling in Syria.
Then overthrow in Libya.
Now meddling in Venezuela.
All while the European Peninsula is under threat from the two great Powers on the Eurasian Continent, Russia and China.
And with Eurasia showing clear tendencies to consolidate and cooperate, despite the US intentions to divide and conquer.
NATO (the European Branch) feels compelled to react to the US withdrawal from the INF treaty, because not doing so would put them right back into a situation just like in the 80s.
More than that, the US, since the coming to power of his current President, has shown clear signs of an increasing isolationism.
Not unlike the one it exhibited before the last two World Wars.
Things are moving ever quicker in this world that is getting more complex by the day.
So while it still might take some time for this new great conflict to erupt (as all players have too much to lose to be the first to strike), its occurrence is inevitable.
Just like rats in a labyrinth, no matter how complex the labyrinth, if you place a huge pack of rats in it, at least one of the rats will find a way out.
The rats successful escape is not related to its intelligence, nor is it a wonder.
Given the law of averages it would be very surprising if none of the rats would be able to find a way out.
Humans seem to assume that the current world situation would either stay peaceful in their homeland, with conflicts being confined to their periphery, and remaining conventional.
Or they assume a Nuclear Armageddon, that is supposed to happen right away, which is what they thought might have happened yesterday.
They might have even given a date, which has passed.
But their brain tells them, that they remain in this situation of immediate impending danger which lies right before them.
What currently occurs is not unlike the situation of an elderly patient in geriatric care.
With health problems he might require more assistance, which limits him in certain way, while enabling him to retain some form of independence, perhaps for quite some time.
Then he falls, fractures his hip bones.
A lot of mobility is lost, yet he remains quite alive, despite the fact his life has taken a turn for the worse, with his health having gone down again.
Perhaps he recovers some of it, and learns to walk again.
Perhaps not.
What remains is the fact that his death could arrive either sudden or slowly, whether by a rapid onset of a severe illness. Or by small factors, slowly weakening and deteriorating his health, until a minor infection sets off a chain reaction that causes his body to shut down.
Most likely he would have given up his will to live, his body trapping him in a reality he would much rather leave.
With nuclear weapons, and a great part of human civilization living in a reality bubble that has no clear concept to deal with the rational acknowledgment of their existence, the most likely scenario seems to the be that those in big cities that are spared a direct attack will face a permanent power outage, with an ensuing food and security crisis, followed by a health crisis which, after roundabout 2,5 years, will have caused 8 to 9 out of 10 humans to have perished.
Not in a gigantic blaze of fire.
But slowly, steadily, due to the very basic needs of every human being for food, shelter, warmth, hygiene and being free from disease.
Like a abscessed tooth does very rarely outright kill, the situation would be painful, and suffering would abound.
Yet, what the abscess does mostly is to leak puss into the digestive tract of the body, irritating and weakening the immune system.
The finishing blow, for an individual, might then come from a viral load that, given the weakened immune system, enhanced by poor nutrition status, is able to outnumber the initial defenses and overwhelm the whole body system, causing the eventual collapse of life functions.
One could draw different conclusions as to where to go from this assumptions, which are as basic as they can be.
This is, after all, what the articles herein contained are about.
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