http://ranprieur.com/#9a417fe513f58988c3b5b1e84cfc57397194a79b 2022-03-01T13:10:21Z Ran Prieur http://ranprieur.com/ ranprieur@gmail.com http://ranprieur.com/#1a656f513587bab4a6d3beb878527f560df8d3b9 2022-03-01T13:10:21Z March 1. Obviously we're not in Cuban Missile Crisis territory, but I've seen some discussion of whether the danger of nuclear war is greater right now than in the 1980's. One difference is, in the 80's the media agenda was to point out the risk of nuclear war, and push for disarmament. Now, their agenda is to keep us calm. I still think the risk is low, but I don't feel qualified to say anything about what Putin might or might not do, or who would obey him.

Also, I just read this in the book The Dawn of Everything. Among the Yurok, a tribe in northern California, there was a "requirement for victors in battle to pay compensation for each life taken, at the same rate one would pay if one were guilty of murder." There's no reason we can't have that rule in the modern world, except the continuing political influence of states that want war murders to be free.

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