Numerous imminent apocalypses have been announced by various men, but failed to show.[1] The end of the world has been predicted over 200 times over the last 2,000 years which is roughly an average of one doomsday prediction every 10 years.[2] Jesus Christ, the Son of God, told his disciples: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." - Matthew 24:35-36 (NRSVA).
The degradation of Russian soldier morale in the trenches in Ukraine has driven Putin and Moscow to employ nuclear blackmail tactics, but his blackmail tactics have proven to be largely ineffective.[3] In addition, a Russian defector recently revealed that a 'majority' of people inside the Kremlin are unhappy with the war in Ukraine. The corrupt, autocrat Vladimir Putin should have never launched his special military operation in February 2020 which snowballed into a war of attrition that is making Russia's demographic crises even worse (See: Russia is dying out. The war in Ukraine is making Russia's demographic crisis even worse).
The article The Different Types of Doomsday Phobias indicates:
| “ | Doomsday phobias are a broad category of phobias that can encompass any fear of the end of the world. Some people fear plague, others nuclear winter, while other people are afraid of Armageddon.
Doomsday phobias occur in some form in virtually every corner of the world. Like many specific phobias, these phobias can be loosely categorized into several types. Two of the most common are technology phobias and religious phobias. It is unknown how prevalent doomsday phobias are, but an estimated 12.5% of US adults will experience a specific phobia at some point in their lives. The increase in extreme weather events and other climate change-related phenomena may well contribute to more recent instances of this kind of phobia, with many worrying about what kind of world we may be handing off to future generations. Doomsday Technology Phobias Nuclear anxiety. sometimes called nucleomituphobia, has persisted since the Cold War and the early years of nuclear innovation. It can certainly be stressful knowing that there are stockpiles of weapons around the world that are powerful enough to level a city in one strike.[4] |
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Symptoms of nucleomituphobia:
The New York Post and The Daily Mail: Vladimir Putin's administration staff 'are starting the day with a bottle of vodka' and former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev is 'often drunk when he writes his apocalyptic threats of nuclear war'
See also: Alcoholism in Russia
In 2023, Russia had the second highest alcoholism rate in the world as far as it being a problem with both genders.[8] In addition, in 2023 Russia had the highest alcoholism rate for males.[9] In 2019, it was reported that every year 500,000 people die due to alcohol in Russia.[10]
The New York Post reported on June 14, 2023:
| “ | Vladimir Putin’s stressed-out Kremlin staffers — along with prominent politicians, governors and members of Russia’s elite — have been hitting the bottle harder than ever since the start of the war in Ukraine, according to a new report.
The independent Russian-language news website Verstka reported, citing interviews with multiple sources within Russia’s political and business circles, that alcoholism has become increasingly commonplace among Putin’s cronies. “Let’s put in this way: Previously, not everyone within the president’s administration would start the day with a glass of vodka,” one person familiar with the matter told the outlet. “Now, I know many more people who do, and for some, a glass has turned into a bottle.” Even some of the most senior officials are not immune to alcohol addiction: Verstka reported that former president Dmitry Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chairman of the Security Council, often writes his saber-rattling Telegram posts threatening the West with nuclear annihilation while deep in his cups.[11] |
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On June 14, 2023, The Daily Mail reported in a story entitled Vladimir Putin's administration staff 'are starting the day with a bottle of vodka' and former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev is 'often drunk when he writes his apocalyptic threats of nuclear war':
| “ | That's according to the exiled Russian newspaper Verstka, which has spoken to several sources close to the administration.
The newspaper reports that consumption among Putin's closest associates has increased sharply since the invasion of Ukraine. 'Not everyone in the presidential administration started the day with a glass of vodka earlier,' one source told the newspaper. 'Now I know many more who do it, and with some the glass has become a bottle.' Sources also claim Dmitry Medvedev, currently the deputy head of the country's security council, is drinking excessively.[12] |
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Russia soldiers, alcoholism and the war in Ukraine
- Russian troops are battling high and drunk: It’s nothing new, The Hill, July 2023
In 2023, Business Insider reported: "Russia lost the first Crimean War because of widespread alcoholism. Drinking is killing their troops in Ukraine, too, intel shows."[13]
Professor John Mearsheimer indicates there is a small chance that Russia will use a nuclear war if it was losing the war in Ukraine and it is unlikely that Russia will lose the war in Ukraine. Ukraine is doing very badly in the war in Ukraine
In 2022, the international relations scholar Professor John Mearsheimer indicated that there is a small, but not trivial chance that Russia will use a nuclear bomb in the war in Ukraine (Mearsheimer gives the the scenario if Russia was losing the war in Ukraine, but he said that Russia was likely to win the war in Ukraine).[14] He also indicated in a December 2022 interview that Russia was underperforming in the war in the war in Ukraine, but still likely to win.[15]
In July of 2023, Mearsheimer indicated that he believes that the will drag on for a considerable amount of time (See: INTERVIEW: John Mearsheimer On US Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine). Given the unpredictability of wars, Mearsheimer has some intellectual humility and points out he has been wrong before about his predictions about world events, but points out that most of the international scholars agree with him on this point as far as the duration of this war lasting a significant amount of time.
Mearsheimer believes that the war in Ukraine may end in a frozen conflict and not a meaningful peace agreement and that is probably the best we can hope for (See: Why Russia-Ukraine War May End In A Frozen Conflict & Why US Should Focus On China: John Mearsheimer). He also indicates that if such a frozen conflict were to happen it would be difficult to maintain and there could be flare-ups.[16]
Ukrainians are doing very badly in the war in Ukraine
On August 23, 2023, Axios reported: "There are growing concerns in Kyiv and among U.S. allies in Europe that more and more Republicans on Capitol Hill will oppose aid to Ukraine as the 2024 election draws closer — potentially jeopardizing efforts to repel Russia's invasion there."[17] By November of 2023, after a failed Spring offensive by Ukraine, a Ukrainian top aide was slamming the West over their war fatigue.[18]
A Japan Times article published on November 6, 2023 entitled 'We're losing': Ukrainians reel from war chief's stalemate warning:
| “ | In eastern Ukraine, where another grueling winter is descending — along with it a likely freeze in major frontline movements — one Ukrainian soldier had a grim assessment of the conflict.
The 35-year-old fighting near the war-battered town of Bakhmut went further than comments from Ukraine's most senior military official, who conceded this week that the war with Russia had reached a stalemate. "I've been saying that for some time now already. Step by step we're losing the war," said the serviceman, who uses the call sign "Mudryi" (Wise). "The longer this static war continues, the worse it is for us," he said in a phone interview.[19] |
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Business Insider reported on November 2023:
| “ | Soldiers in Ukraine are veering increasingly older as the country grapples with a shortage of soldiers after roughly 20 months of brutal fighting against Russia.
As countless casualties have hampered Ukraine's forces, the average age of a soldier in the country is currently around 43 years old, Time magazine reported last week. That average is up by nearly 10 years from March 2022, one month after the war began, when the average age of a Ukrainian soldier was between 30 and 35 years old, according to FT. "They're grown men now, and they aren't that healthy to begin with," a close aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Time. "This is Ukraine. Not Scandinavia."[20] |
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Alexander Mercouris is a UK writer on international affairs who cohosts The Duran YouTube channel with Alex Christoforou who lives in Cyprus. The Duran YouTube channel is a pro-Russia YouTube channel. On November 8, 2023, The Duran YouTube channel, published the video West will choke on Putin's terms for Ukraine which pointed how badly the war was going for Ukraine and that Ukraine and the West will not like Russia's terms for ending the conflict. In addition, they stated that the "stalemate narrative" that various pro-Ukrainian advocates are pushing are fake, absurd and born of desperation and that the Ukrainian army is running out of fighting men. In addition, Mercoouris noted that although the Biden Administration and the collective West will be hurt by the war in Ukraine, "The United States will pull through" and that it's "not an existential disaster" for the USA, but for Europe (Especially Germany) it will be a big blow.
Any "victory" Russia achieves in the war in Ukraine in terms of land gained will be a pyrrhic victory (See: Essay: Russia is dying out. The war in Ukraine is making Russia's demographic crisis even worse and Essay: Why I am not bullish on Russia's future). I also predict that Ukraine will be wrecked and become a rump state.
Regardless of when the war ends, it will have hurt Ukraine, Russia, the West, and much of the world in significant ways and it would have been better if the war did not happen. For example, Ukraine is a big food producer and many third-world countries struggle when it comes to food security.
Alcoholism in Russia
See also: Alcoholism in Russia
As noted above, in 2023, Russia had the second highest alcoholism rate in the world as far as it being a problem with both genders.[21] In addition, in 2023 Russia had the highest alcoholism rate for males.[22] In 2019, it was reported that every year 500,000 people die due to alcohol in Russia.[23]
Academic journal articles on alcoholism in Russia
- Soviet and Russian Statistics on Alcohol Consumption and Abuse, PubMed
- Alcohol mortality in Russia: assessment with representative survey data, Population and economics
Russian defector reveals that a 'majority' of people inside the Kremlin are unhappy with the war in Ukraine
See also: Are the Russians as unhappy as they claim they are?
- Russia defector reveals 'majority' of people inside Kremlin unhappy with war in Ukraine, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, June 2023
- Russia defector reveals 'majority' of people inside Kremlin unhappy with war in Ukraine, ABC News video, July 2023
Vladimir's Putin's propaganda machine
The below videos provide information on Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine:
Vladimir Putin's mother, the war in Ukraine and alcohol-fueled, nuclear war blackmail threats
Mothers often warn their sons about not engaging in dangerous and unpredictable activities that can have unintended consequences. Apparently, Vladimir's mother did not give him the talk about these topics: Don't throw snowballs because you will put someone's eye out; don't engage in judo matches with seemingly weak, little Japanese girls; don't launch special military operations that can turn into wars of attrition that will make your country's demographic crisis worse and don't endlessly have your drunk underlings issue nuclear blackmail threats or your opponents might mistake a flock of geese for nuclear missiles and launch a thermonuclear war.
Apparently, Vladimir's mother never told him about Murphy's law and dangerous, unpredictable activities: "If anything can go wrong, it will".
Even the girly, boy Barack Obama wasn't thrown to the floor by a little girl.
See: Seemingly weak, little, girl Judo practioner tosses Vladimir Putin to the floor - video
Vladimir Putin's mother should have given him the talk about not engaging in dangerous and unpredictable activities that can have unintended consequences.
Three reasons why I remain unperturbed by authoritarian, drunk Russians threatening to use nuclear bombs
The 3 reasons why I remain unperturbed by authoritarian, drunk Russians threatening to use nuclear bombs:
1. According to Medical News Today, "Neuroticism is a long-term tendency to be in a negative or anxious emotional state. It is not a medical condition but a personality trait. People often confuse this with neurosis."[24] I have a low degree of neuroticism.
2. "Cowards die a thousand deaths before they die. The valiant die but once." - William Shakespeare
3. The Russians are very aware that the use of nuclear bombs could escalate. In short, it could potentially be a case of mutually assured destruction.
Men with machismo have a low degree of neuroticism. One of the definitions of machismo is an "exhilarating sense of power or strength."[26]
According to the website Medical Xpress: "Believing in God can help block anxiety and minimize stress, according to new University of Toronto research that shows distinct brain differences between believers and non-believers."[27]
Olé! Olé! Olé!
Level of war/conflict has seen a rise post 1989
"The level of war in the world seems to have risen to 1989 (post-WWII) peak levels and holding, ending the pacific 1989-2006 era. Does this contradict the Decline of Violence (Pinker) / End of History (Fukuyama) theses, or is it just a blip?". - Professor Eric Kaufmann, Twitter/X.[2], See: War and Peace.
What is the risk of complete human extincition via a nuclear war?
From the article Nuclear holocaust: "In a poll of experts at the Global Catastrophic Risk Conference in Oxford (17–20 July 2008), the Future of Humanity Institute estimated the probability of complete human extinction by nuclear weapons at 1% within the century, the probability of 1 billion dead at 10% and the probability of 1 million dead at 30%.[3] These results reflect the median opinions of a group of experts, rather than a probabilistic model; the actual values may be much lower or higher."
The Bible says that there will be a second coming of Jesus Christ and that mankind will still exist when Jesus returns. Then there will be a peaceful millenial reign of Christ for a 1,000 years. After the millennial reign, the new heaven and earth will arrive. Since there is a great wealth of evidence indicating that the Bible and its prophecies are true, the odds that there will be a complete human extincition via a nuclear war is zero.
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References
- ↑ Apocalypse: Should we start to panic? | DW Documentary
- ↑ Apocalypse: Should we start to panic? | DW Documentary
- ↑ Russian Nuclear Blackmail Remains Ineffective
- ↑ The Different Types of Doomsday Phobias
- ↑ Symptoms of nucleomituphobia
- ↑ Alcoholism by country
- ↑ Alcoholism by country
- ↑ Alcoholism by country
- ↑ Alcoholism by country
- ↑ Demographic crisis in Russia
- ↑ Putin’s ‘stressed’ administration staff start each day with bottle of vodka: report, The New York Post, June 14, 2023
- ↑ Vladimir Putin's administration staff 'are starting the day with a bottle of vodka' and former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev is 'often drunk when he writes his apocalyptic threats of nuclear war', Daily Mail, June 14, 2023
- ↑ Russia lost the first Crimean War because of widespread alcoholism. Drinking is killing their troops in Ukraine, too, intel shows., Business Insider, 2023
- ↑
- John Mearsheimer on Putin’s Ambitions After Nine Months of War by John Mearsheimer, The New Yorker, 2022
- Playing With Fire in Ukraine by John Mearsheimer, Foreign Affairs, 2022
- John Mearsheimer -The Nuclear Threat
- John Mearsheimer: The West is playing Russian roulette
- John J. Mearsheimer: Great Power Politics in the 21st Century & The Implications for Hungary (Video starts at point Mearsheimer talks about the possibility of Russians using a nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons in Ukraine)
- ↑ John Mearsheimer: The West is playing Russian roulet
- ↑ Decoding Global Powerplays: International Relations Expert, John Mearsheimer Interview | News18
- ↑ White House tells Ukraine, allies that Congress will back more war aid, Axios, 2023
- ↑ Zelenskyy’s top aide slams West over ‘war fatigue’, Politico, 2023
- ↑ 'We're losing': Ukrainians reel from war chief's stalemate warning, Japan Times
- ↑ The average age of Ukrainian soldier is older than 40 as the country grapples with personnel problems, Business Insider, 2023
- ↑ Alcoholism by country
- ↑ Alcoholism by country
- ↑ Demographic crisis in Russia
- ↑ Neuroses and neuroticism: What's the difference?, Medical News Today
- ↑ Neuroses and neuroticism: What's the difference?, Medical News Today
- ↑ Machismo
- ↑ Researchers find brain differences between believers and non-believers, Medical Xpress website