Russia puts its nuclear forces into a state of high alert.

How does Andrew Preston, a Cambridge history professor assess the situation?

"I can't see how this is a positive development."

Indeed! I suspect that putain will take Ukraine, either by nuking it or by overwhelming ground attack, but it will be a pyrrhic victory.

I don’t know. I just heard a cockroach talking to a tardigrade and they seemed very optimistic.

quote:

"I can't see how this is a positive development."

Definitely an understatement! The world is not in a good place now, for sure.

Look on the bright side. Global thermonuclear war would almost certainly destroy the virus.