The world is on a precipice. Not since October 1962 have we been on ‘the verge’ in such a horribly, dangerously, vergish kind of way. Back then it was Khrushchev and Kennedy playing ‘handbags’ with nukes. Two essentially intelligent, decent, moral (except for Kennedy), guys caught up in Cold War mania and for one dreaded moment, both standing with fingers over the buttons.

Now its different. The world has evolved. Nukes are waaaaaaaay more powerful than anything that could have even been imagined in the 1960s. And back then they could still remember Hiroshima pretty clearly. The only time a nuke has ever been deployed in anger. Not nice.

And here we are again. But this time instead of cool, level-headed Kennedy we have Donald J Fucking Trump in the blue corner. The school  bully given a world-sized playground to strut upon. The bragger. The pusher and shover. The dick-measurer. And a president so adrift and out of his depth in the political world that he actually needs this, is probably yearning for an excuse to push the ‘go’ button just to try and up his personal ratings a bit.

In the red corner we have Kim Jong-Un, the world’s most silly person. A cartoon character of a spoiled little fat brat given absolutely everything he ever wants. Certainly all the pies he can eat. (Ever tried eating a pie with chop-sticks? No wonder he’s angry). And as well as being a narcissist, like Trump, and a psycho, like Trump, Kim is also totally paranoid. His nuke obsession is because he feels (as do many, to be fair) that the ultimate protection from attack is a nuclear deterrent. But Trump fears Kim’s burning desire for a ‘defence’ system that is also capable of defending itself 7,000 miles away in Chicago.

So here we are; poised with the 2 most unstable men in the world pushing each other, sending silly messages of bravado, derring-do and stupidity at each other, neither capable of appearing to yield in the most minute of ways.

They fit stop-start on cars these days. To save on exhaust fumes while you’re sitting at the traffic lights. Reduces world pollution. And here we are threatening to use weapons that will send hundreds of billions of lethal, atomic particles of radiation into the atmosphere.

This is just sooooo fucked up.

Happy Thursday, I hope

A xxxx