At the peaceful end of the crisis, several safeguard procedures or, as we call them today, "safeguards", were put in place to prevent competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for control of human destiny does not suddenly degenerate into a hot war. A telephone "red line" was set up to allow heads of state to contact each other in case the actions of either side were misinterpreted as a nuclear attack. This device was famously mocked in the anti-war film Dr. Strangelove.

Decade after decade over the last century, other procedural guarantees have appeared in the form of treaties on the limitation of arms, then on the reduction of nuclear arsenals, with on-site inspections, all with the intention of strengthening trust between the two hostile and suspicious parties.

Nevertheless, it has happened on several occasions that only the coolness of an officer with missile-launching authority, whether Russian or American, has prevented false radar readings of US missile activity. other party does not carry out a "pre-emptive" strike, applying the "use them or lose them" principle with respect to the arsenal he controlled. The fact that we made it through the XNUMXth century unscathed can be considered “foolish luck,” as we say in American English, or a “miracle,” as people who have faith in God would say.

In this context, I argue that what happened yesterday in the US Congress was an act of divine intervention to save us from ourselves. The thirty minute warning time before an intercontinental ballistic missile strikes or the one hour warning time before a nuclear bomber hits its target, as in the case of Dr. Strangelove, is a luxury which no longer exists. The existence of nuclear-armed U.S. intermediate-range missiles on Russia's borders and Russian hypersonic missiles housed on small surface ships or submarines in international waters off the coast of the United States means that the alert time has been reduced to five or ten minutes, meaning there is no longer a buffer against false alerts and automated launches. Should the United States continue its policy of escalation in Ukraine, with the aid and abetment of the British and Germans, who have just announced their intention to introduce Typhoon jets or TAURUS missiles into the war in Ukraine, we would have virtually no chance of preventing NATO or Russia from moving to tactical and then strategic nuclear weapons, which would mean the end of civilization on earth.

This is where divine intervention occurs.

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