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Uneasy Mantra of Brinkmanship

Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty nixed, asper (gasp) infinite wisdom (quite unsettling) trumpeting commander in chief de facto gave green light, thus signals fasttrack, sans arms race activating Armageddon churning noble nuclear warheads damn the (not so petty) torpedoes full steam ahead, ramping up military industrial (intelligence - ha) complex edifice global security compromised detente tipping point needle weighs heavily - scale lean triangulation ratchets dramatic apocalyptic fear each man knucled (woman child) arms themselves to the teeth bombs away doth not leave mushroom to wiggle free of doom, the human race on track to extinction since the commander in chief did rescind checks and balances on rogue nations, now issuing free (grab bag) for all warmongering states to stock on fire sale of various and sundry weapons of mass destruction ushering exponential possibility slight sabre rattling altercations will kickstart World War III, but no victors will emerge cuz every square inch of planet Earth will be snapping, crackling and popping with radiation fostering disintegration, incineration, obliteration..., among civilization with minuscule probability no child will be left behind, (nor anybody else for that matter), yet one need not be a brain scientist, nor rocket surgeon to predict the end of the world as we know it (REM) minding any weekly reader of TIME magazine, or other reputable news source (such as Howard Stern), any moment could deliver every thing each of us cherish to go to hell in a handbasket of deplorables) predicated on the isolationist (nationalistic) posture our dear leader steers this ship (unwieldy leviathan) of state into totally tubular unswerving pulverization!

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