[What is the] the very worst-case scenario?
The conflict spreads further still, bringing in former Soviet republics such as Ukraine, which - like Georgia - aspires to Nato membership, and Kazakhstan, which is loyal to Moscow. The war in Yugoslavia would pale beside any war among former Soviet republics. The only thing worse than that would be the military involvement of the west, which looks unlikely, given Europe’s dependence on Russian energy and America and Britain’s commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Preguntas y respuestas sobre el conflicto Ruso-Georgiano y galerías de fotos, en The Guardian.
Unas cuantas imágenes nuevas de The Road, vía el blog apocalíptico más profesional que pueden leer Quiet Earth.
Que nadie me acuse de conformismo, pero tiene todo una pinta tan de puta madre que es difícil ponerle pegas.
“Real apocalypses are sordid, banal, insane. If things do come unraveled, they present not a golden opportunity for lone wolves and well-armed geeks, but a reality of babies with diarrhea, of bugs and weird weather and dust everywhere, of never enough to eat, of famine and starving, hollow-eyed people, of drunken soldiers full of boredom and self-hate, of random murder and rape and wars which accomplish nothing, of many fine things lost for no reason and nothing of any value gained. And survivalists, if they actually manage to avoid becoming the prey of larger groups, sitting bitter and cold and hungry and paranoid, watching their supplies run low and wishing they had a clean bed and some friends. Of all the lies we tell ourselves, this is the biggest: that there is any world worth living in that involves the breakdown of society.”
—Alex Steffen en Night, Hoover Dam, una reflexión sobre la madurez y futuro de la civilización.
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