HUMAN WARMTH

Positive and Uplifting News

Despite the atrocities happening, people are banding together to help one another in this time of need.

We need to shift focus.

We are not going to shift our focus away from the war in Ukraine, but we need to shift our focus away from the Russian president, the dictator, the aggressor who has unprovoked and brutally attacked a neighboring country.

We watch TV every day, and the horrific events we see happen in a country far away from us. Yet we get sad, we get angry, as we know that people in this country where war is raging would be sad if they saw us on TV, in a country far away, where there is war.

This is how we resemble people in Ukraine, and people in Ukraine resemble us. We are equal in the fact that we care, and we are equal in the fact that we are sorry when we see injustice affecting innocent people:

We are humans.

It is normal and human that we react to brutal actions that lead to meaningless suffering and death.

It is normal to be sad. It is normal to be scared. We are scared because what we are witnessing is so cruel, so inhuman, so unfair.

We react to this meaningless, destructive thing that is inflicted on millions of people. We must stand up to the feeling of being powerless as the insane actions inflict on us.

We Can Find Strength in The Positive

We can seek out the positive, the good that, after all, exists, completely or partially hidden from all the evil.

We can find strength in the positive, such as

• the descriptions of how the people of Ukraine are fearlessly fighting against the Russian invasion forces
• the reports that the advance of the invading forces has stopped and that the many kilometer-long military columns stand still
• the news where we see how people in neighboring countries and in our own country help the refugees
• the stories of how many people in Ukraine get involved and work voluntarily to build up and strengthen the defense against the Russian soldiers
• to see that Ukraine has a clear and courageous president who stands up to the Russians as a role model for his people
• the reports that the Russian forces in general seem to be doing poorly with the invasion
• the Russian invasion seems to be poorly planned
• the Russian war leadership seems — unbelievably — poorly prepared and not very dedicated
• the encouraging pictures of civilians in Ukraine who fearlessly demonstrate against Russian soldiers in their country

Not least, we can rejoice at the sign that the Russian dictator seems to be overtaken by harsh realities that he had not anticipated.

As the invasion becomes more and more marked by failure or lack of results, a desperate despot introduces increasingly stringent laws and bans freedom of expression. His actions become more desperate as time goes on without his invasion reaching the expected results.

The biggest reason to think that there is much positive lies in human nature.

In danger and adversity, it is natural for man to seek together.

We apply to each other and we support and help each other, and so we become a little safer and look a little less dark at the situation.

In conclusion

• it is also good to know that nuclear weapons in Russia and the United States are safe against a single man being able to start a nuclear war, as this NATO representative wrote a couple of years ago:

Thierry Etienne Joseph Rotty

Senior Controller at NATO 2y

If Vladimir Putin went off the deep end and decided to unilaterally launch a nuclear strike on the United States, could he do it? Do the Russians have any system in place to prevent one unstable person from starting WW3?

The nuclear release procedure of the US and Russia are almost identical, they were developed together in 1962.

Nuclear release can only occur when the military presents the political leadership with a number of options., without these no release is possible.

The Russians have a nuclear briefcase, Cheget (named after a mountain) similar to the American Nuclear Football.

This is a communications device, it can’t be used to fire nuclear weapons. The actual release codes are kept by the military.

Just like in the US, the briefcase is there to allow a President to communicate with the military over a secured line, it is nothing more than a big phone.

In both countries, the final decision to deploy nuclear weapons lies with the military.

These systems were created jointly by the US and the Soviet Union in 1962 as a result of a meeting between Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Lemnitzer, and the Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization, Marshal of the Soviet Union Grechko. These protocols are known as the Berlin Accords.

Sourcee: Quora

Øivind H. Solheim is a novel author and a nature photographer from Norway who loves writing fiction, poetry, essays, and articles helping others understand life, other humans, and themselves. He has published six novels, two non-fiction books, and a poetry book.

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