When the only thing in front of us is nuclear destruction

 

When the only thing in front of us is nuclear desctruction

Hermann Göring told Adolf Hitler that "no German cities will be bombed". This did not go well. In fact, Western leaders, like Hermann Göring seem to believe that "Western cities will be bombed". But there are exceptions, Germany is today investing a vast amount of money building bunkers because German politicians do believe that there is going to be nuclear war.

Ralph Tiesler, the head of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK), said Europe’s largest economy needed to wake up to the reality of conflict, and that in its current state Germany was inadequately prepared.

“For a long time, there was a widespread belief in Germany that war was not a scenario for which we needed to prepare. That has changed. We are concerned about the risk of a major war of aggression in Europe,” he told the Süddeutsche Zeitung news outlet.

Tiesler called for a national effort to pinpoint and turn tunnels, metro stations, underground garages, car parks and the cellars of public buildings into protective shelters to “quickly create space for 1 million people”. He said his agency will present a comprehensive plan later this summer.

He added that the country was in a race against time, and to rely on the construction of new bunker facilities was insufficient. Such shelters would take a long time to plan and construct and be very costly, Tiesler said. As a result, existing structures needed to be closely considered more immediately.

Capacity for a million people? Germany has about 90 million people. I guess President Trump, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and others will have a difficult time telling their fellow citizens that in the event of nuclear war they are all going to die because there is no provision of accommodation capable of withstanding a nuclear impact and the aftermath of a nuclear impact.

When you hear so many politicians and informed individuals willing to send troops to a battlefield with the knowledge that it will trigger nuclear war......