Just double checked the P&S timeline, the Warsaw Pact (precise nation unknown) seems due to shoot down another airliner over East Germany on the night of January 28-29. If I infer correctly, looks like that will be the spark that will kill the Geneva conference and get the powder keg towards war to start burning...
I think thats the kind of irony Chipperback is going for. Once the balloon starts going up and the fallout starts falling down, all those agreements with 'The Man' are going to go right out the window (assuming The Man even survives the warheads). The post-WW3 world will be the darkest age humanity has ever experienced thus far... something to make the Fall of Rome look like a toddler's playful romp in a sandbox by comparison.
And besides, if the crisis had blown over, The Man would have come out of it better then the governor.
PS: Who is 'The Man'? I'm a Georgian who was born in 1990 (two months before Saddam invaded Kuwait, actually) and I am therefore rather ignorant about state politics of Nebreska in the mid-80's, so if he is an actual historical figure its kind of going over my head.
I find it weird someone proposing a moratorium on capital punishment on the eve of a major war.I mean someone would say once the bombs start falling law and order will be imposed with the hangmans noose.Of course all this talk about constitutional rights and whatever might be a way for some politicians to be in denial about what is really coming their way.
I think thats the kind of irony Chipperback is going for. Once the balloon starts going up and the fallout starts falling down, all those agreements with 'The Man' are going to go right out the window (assuming The Man even survives the warheads). The post-WW3 world will be the darkest age humanity has ever experienced thus far... something to make the Fall of Rome look like a toddler's playful romp in a sandbox by comparison.
And besides, if the crisis had blown over, The Man would have come out of it better then the governor.
PS: Who is 'The Man'? I'm a Georgian who was born in 1990 (two months before Saddam invaded Kuwait, actually) and I am therefore rather ignorant about state politics of Nebreska in the mid-80's, so if he is an actual historical figure its kind of going over my head.
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