Great piece Tom. Just so grateful that Trump didn’t cheat his way into a second term. Doesn’t bear thinking about how he would have managed the situation. Those of us who remain fascinated by the likes of Uncle Joe and Putin, (the extraordinary levels of lethal paranoia fed by megalomaniacal egos) is now overtaken by horror and dread. Troubled times
I read the book at about the same age - shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis. In those days it scared the hell out of me. I re-read it during lockdown and it still hits hard, tho’ the writing scarcely counts as literature. Today’s Russian adventurism is, I think (hope), less serious than the Cuban Crisis - except that back then all the senior players had real life experience of total war during WWII. Not the case now.
Great piece Tom. Just so grateful that Trump didn’t cheat his way into a second term. Doesn’t bear thinking about how he would have managed the situation. Those of us who remain fascinated by the likes of Uncle Joe and Putin, (the extraordinary levels of lethal paranoia fed by megalomaniacal egos) is now overtaken by horror and dread. Troubled times
I read the book at about the same age - shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis. In those days it scared the hell out of me. I re-read it during lockdown and it still hits hard, tho’ the writing scarcely counts as literature. Today’s Russian adventurism is, I think (hope), less serious than the Cuban Crisis - except that back then all the senior players had real life experience of total war during WWII. Not the case now.