World War III is about to break out. Putin keeps threatening it. China keeps sabre-rattling about Taiwan. Pakistan and Iran have taken to lobbing missiles at each other, with the latter saying that it wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth to boot. War and civil war rages across the Middle East. Fat fruitcake Kim Jong-un keeps threatening to nuke South Korea, or the US. Or somebody.
We’re on the brink of holocaust. I know this for a fact because various experts and commentators keep telling me this is the case. The Doomday Clock stands at ninety seconds to midnight. Military chiefs inevitably talk of ‘being prepared’, which is Newspeak for ‘give us more money to pay for bigger bangs’.
I’m fully expecting a nuclear war to start tomorrow, when some local madness spins out of control and some mad cunt finally presses the button. Or maybe it’ll be next week. Or in 2030.
I’m mentally prepared, simply because THEY have been readying us for it ever since 1945. I can just remember the Suez crisis. I well remember all the Arab-Israel conflicts, especially Yom Kippur, when Golda Meir apparently seriously considered dropping the Big One. There was Korea, and Vietnam, and who could ever forget all the high jinks of the Cold War, especially the Cuba crisis, when it could have been curtains. Yes the Cold War was always going to go hot at any minute, yet somehow it never quite came to it.
The fact is, I’ve been expecting World War III ever since I can remember, and it’s never actually happened. I’ve been terrified at the prospect since childhood, but I’ve now reached the point where I simply can’t be arsed with all this perpetual sabre-rattling and scare-mongering any more. Fuck ’em all.
So World War III gets a definite maybe from me. It might happen. It might not; in fact I reckon that it actually won’t. Anyway I refuse to worry about it any more. I’m now completely blasé on the matter, for the simple reason that there’s absolutely sweet fuck all I can do either way.
Time for a gin and tonic.
Nominated by: Ron Knee
And to continue the happy vibe, here’s this from OpinionatedCunt
The looming prospect of WW3 is a cunt.
Now, I don’t know whether WW3 will happen or not – there’s a few other things that have to happen for that, and there’s an argument to be made as to whether a large conflict could even be sustained in the present world.
However, I have never seen so many people and organisations (NATO, the Chief of Staff, the German and Swedish Defence Ministers, Schapps etc) come out with the kind of rhetoric they have been espousing in the last few weeks.
Obviously, all of them may have agendas. NATO may be attempting to galvanise its members into providing more funding for Ukraine, the Chief of Staff may be attempting to get more government money to combat the army’s recruitment crisis, the respective defence ministers may be trying to shore up public support or distract from scandals.
However, these are starting to feel like very, very dangerous times, and I’m starting to get a wee bit jittery. Maybe I’m overthinking things – I certainly hope that’s the case. However, there’s a nagging feeling there that something will pop off eventually.



