World War 3
After completing some IT work for a customer on Sunday, my friends and I paid a visit to the local boozer for a rather nice carvery.
We got talking about politics, about Boris, and Covid and Brexit. But the main bone of contention was the pending energy crisis and who was to blame.
One friend said its “those people who voted Brexit” (he is 23), another friend said it was “capitalism” (aged 31 I think), and my two other colleagues (44 and 50 something) said it was a combination between Britain’s suicidal march towards going Green, and all the shit going on with Putin, Germany and Ukraine.
The conversation then moved on towards a possible war in Europe, which could escalate westwards and inevitably involve the UK. The naïve 23 year old shook his head and dismissed the idea as pure nonsense. The oldest among us reminded him of the Cold War years of the late 70s and early 80s and the nuclear threat/deterrent.
But again, he dismissed it as ancient history, and that such things could never happen today, although he never explained why.
But that didn’t stop him taking a pop at Britain and the US for “inflaming” and “prolonging” the 2nd World War, and that both countries should feel ashamed for killing/murdering so many innocent people, especially in Germany and Japan!
There was a stunned silence for a few seconds before we all waded in to him with a few facts and observations. But he wouldn’t have it. To his mind Britain and the US were the antagonists and should have been far more conciliatory and diplomatic with Germany and Japan. He then said the same about Iraq and Kuwait back in the 90s where Britain and the US were again at fault for being too macho.
Inevitably the conversation more or less ended there. We paid our bill and fucked off in separate directions. But my two older colleagues and I bemoaned the young cunt for his myopic view of history. And that perhaps another world war, or European war might just focus the mind.
Not that it would make any difference because the cunt would still blame the UK rather than Russia, probably because of Brexit and racism etc.
Nominated by Technocunt