Why world is paying dearly for absurd 76-day gap between Trump’s win & him taking office…are we now headed for WW3?

The war drums are pounding. Vladimir Putin is threatening to start a nuclear war that will destroy us all.

In reaction, after decades of savoring an imagined peace dividend, the weak and financially challenged European Union is finding it difficult to raise an army.

The possibility of a pan-European conflict is increasing as Ukraine unleashes US and UK missiles far within Russia, raising alarms for the first time since the Cold War.

frightful moments.

But is World War Three actually upon us?

Don’t panic, to paraphrase Lance Corporal Jones of Dad’s Army.

Not yet, anyhow.

Nonetheless, the threat is being taken seriously by frontline nations like Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.

Peacenik Germany has welcomed 800,000 NATO troops to conduct war simulations on its territory after finally seeing the threat posed by Russia.

At $140,000 each, you may purchase reasonably priced bunkers in America that will help you survive the end of the world.

An online publication here in Britain catches the spirit with survival advice like: How to prevent skin melting and Why to keep your lips wide to prevent eardrums from bursting…

One misstep away from global conflict

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The ludicrous 76-day power vacuum between Donald Trump’s victory as US president on November 5 and his inauguration on January 20 is actually costing the globe dearly.

As both parties in the crisis in Ukraine want to make irreversible progress before Trump takes office, sabre-rattling is filling the void.

Joe Biden’s tardiness in giving Ukraine the long-range weapons it could have used to terminate the war has exacerbated the situation.

Instead, the Kremlini have threatened nuclear retaliation in response to President Vladimir Zelensky’s attacks deep within Russia.

Putin said the US and the UK might now be targets for Russia on Thursday after striking the Ukrainian city of Dnipro with a hypersonic Oreshnik missile that can carry nuclear weapons.

We must relax.

Mad Vlad isn’t insane enough to destroy the West.

And China wouldn’t allow him to if he did.

It’s possible that Beijing and Moscow are working together to weaken the powerful American giant.

But rather than allowing his junior partner to unleash Apocalypse Now, Beijing tyrant Xi Jinping plans to do this by coercion and stealth.

This is not to downplay the very ominous threat to international harmony.

Two devastating world wars and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis have taught us that we are only a terrible mistake away from a world war.

We are in the hands of the most capricious and unpredictable world leader of our time at this moment.

By threatening to upend the global military, diplomatic, and economic system, Donald Trump has exacerbated tensions.

He is prepared to start trade fights with Europe, sink China’s exports, and split heads in the Middle East.

Ukraine, though, comes first. The 46th president-elect is prepared to withdraw from a European battle that, in his opinion, has nothing to do with the United States.

However, American taxpayers paid $140 billion for armaments and help to Ukraine while European Union leaders wrung their hands and hesitated.

Trump thinks enough is enough.

The biggest bluffer in the world might be bluffing. However, only an idiot would name it that.

That’s why Kyiv leader Zelensky is using every tool at his disposal to defeat the Russian bear as quickly as possible.

Among them are the long-range American ATACMS and Britain’s deadly Storm Shadow cruise missiles, which were already launched this week with catastrophic results, courtesy to PMKeir Starmer.

Even if this is a commendable act in support of courageous Ukraine, it only serves to prolong an unwinnable war.

By claiming that foreign-made weapons used against Russia constitute grounds for nuclear retaliation, Putin—who is a skilled negotiator himself—has escalated the situation.

This exposes the EU in a dangerous way. The EU’s 27 member states have become flimsily ineffectual despite their shared NATO membership.

For the past fifty years, taxpayers have spent trillions on social welfare while the military has received peanuts.

While air and naval defenses are operating on fumes, armies are being reduced in size.

Europe is essentially defenseless today against the greatest threat to peace since World War Two.

President Trump used a bomb to pressure EU leaders into increasing military spending during his first term in office. Not enough, though.

The worst offender is Germany, which used to arm its soldiers with broomsticks rather than guns.

Despite being the economic engine of the EU, Ukraine’s crisis has revealed that it is entirely reliant on Russian gas and oil.

Berlin is now threatening to host 800,000 NATO forces on its territory in order to protect the Fatherland in the event that Russia invades Finland or the Baltic states.

An attack on any one of the 32 NATO members is considered an attack on all of them, according to Article 51 of the alliance.

Formerly pacifist governments now realize that preparing for war is the best way to maintain peace.

In 1960s, we practised diving under the table

Late in the day, the liberal elites of Europe, in nations like Sweden and Holland, have directed businesses and farmers to hoard food, fuel, and essential machinery, such as diesel generators.

It emphasizes how insane Keir Starmer’s declaration of war against Britain’s struggling farmers was. We might soon need to dig for victory and plant crops on every acre.

Labour can no longer defend its choice to shut down our oil, gas, and coal resources during a period of skyrocketing energy costs in order to meet Ed Miliband’s crazy Net Zero timetable.

Additionally, voters will question why this government is getting rid of two brand-new aircraft carriers, scores of military drones and helicopters, and five Royal Navy warships.

Our sluggish prime minister has undoubtedly learned that socialism is not a suitable defense strategy from his endless discussions with foreign leaders abroad.

Similar crises have occurred in the past, most notably during the protracted Cold War, when the Kremlin actually posed a nuclear threat to our existence.

Only a four-minute warning on antiquated wartime sirens could alert us to the threat of an impending attack in the 1960s.

We practiced standing in passageways that are more likely to withstand a blast or diving behind the dining room table.

After a nuclear holocaust in the northern hemisphere, Australians were shown in the best-selling novel On the Beach waiting for their final days on the planet.

In Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers made us chuckle uncomfortably. Or: How I Discovered How to Love the Bomb and Quit Worrying.

While Red Ken Livingstone foolishly declared London a nuclear-free zone, women protesting against Polaris missiles camped out at RAF Greenham Common for years.

East-West talks culminated in an uncomfortable ceasefire by the 1980s.

The phrase “MAD Mutually Assured Destruction” was used literally. We all perish if you press the red button.

When I first started working as The Sun’s political editor, I went to Moscow with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to attend a number of meetings with Soviet authorities.

I was present at one of the most important disarmament summits between US President Ronald Reagan and Russian President Mikhail Gorbacheva.

The superpower leaders agreed on huge, if symbolic, missile cuts, captured on Page One of The Sun by an image of nukes launched harmlessly into the Pacific Ocean.

We reaffirmed our solemn conviction that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, said the two world leaders in 1988.

The Berlin Wall fell one year later, marking the so-called End Of History.

But nuclear weapons cannot be disinvented. Mutually Assured Destruction remains the only bulwark against Armageddon.

Luckily, Donald Trump is a master of The Art Of The Deal.

Putin is desperate to be treated with respect on the world stage, not as a global pariah.

For all his bombast, he knows his country has suffered disastrous losses in blood and treasure from his blundering assault on Ukraine.

Tough call for so-called European superstate

Sanctions have blocked Russia s stagnant economy from Western advances in technology.

A permanent ceasefire is negotiable, but only if Putin is not humiliated.

There could be deals which revive Russia s lucrative trade in oil and gas.

Putin will want to be re-admitted to the top table of the world s most powerful economies, making the G7 into the G8 once again.

Brave Ukraine cannot fight on without allied support.

Nor should it be abandoned to exist in a frozen war , perpetually intimidated by Russia.

Which is where the European Union must step in.

Ukraine is now Europe s responsibility, not America s.

The EU s member states must find the resources to guard their own borders.

They can rely on Nato which includes the US and UK but only if they raise defence spending by billions.

This is a tough call for the so-called European superstate, which has spent the past five decades effectively disarming.

A failure of will at this crucial point would be disastrous.

If Putin digs his heels in on Ukraine, we might yet find ourselves buying affordable bunkers to survive the apocalypse .