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Threat of massive destruction to world through nuclear war is still very much around; Top US General says China feared a US (nuclear) attack during last days of Donald Trump's presidency

Minor update on 30th Sep. 2021 The threat of massive destruction to the world through nuclear war is still very much around as we can see from public statements by a top US General that China feared a US (nuclear) attack during the last days of Donald Trump's presidency. The plain and very disturbing truth is that a few persons in the world who have the command authority in 'Great Powers' countries to launch absolutely devastating nuclear weapons that their countries possess, can take the world into a massively destructive nuclear war. In my young adult days of the 1980s, one of the realities that the media would talk about and which seeped into my thinking, my worldview, was the possibility of a nuclear war between the great powers then, the USA and the USSR, which would impact the whole world. For readers who do not know about those days: there were world peace marches and rallies then in many parts of the world. I joined one such world peace march in Brussels, Belgium so

Referral: Ten years since I started regular blogging as free service in Sept. 2011; #HelpTen goal ...

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Readers may want to visit my recent post on another blog of mine: Ten years since I started regular blogging as free service in Sept. 2011; #HelpTen goal seems to have been achieved; Some blog stats and search ranking data,  https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2021/09/ten-years-since-i-started-regular.html . The afore-mentioned post has stats and search ranking data of this ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com blog too. Composite pic having graph and audience info. for 4 main blogs. Pic taken from above mentioned post.

Referral: Good to see my Google Knowledge Panel drop my Google Scholar profile and show my Facebook profile

Readers may want to view my recent post on another blog of mine: Good to see my Google Knowledge Panel drop my Google Scholar profile and show my Facebook profile,  https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2021/09/good-to-see-google-knowledge-panel-de.html . 

Miscellaneous Facebook posts & comments in or around August 2021

When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers will have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ==========================================     Last US Troops Leave Afghanistan Ending 20-Year War: Pentagon, https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/last-us-troops-leave-afghanistan-ending-20-year-war-pentagon-2524242 , 31st Aug. 2021. Ravi: That's a watershed moment (whether one likes it or not with me currently being on the side of not liking it) in current history of South Asia. Now Taliban (Taliban 2.0) has full control of Kabul and most of Afghanistan. Let us hope and pray that Taliban 2.0 will be more tolerant of Islamic sects and groups that differ from their interpretation of Islam, and of followers of religions other than Islam. ... Taliban take over Kabul airport