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  The much promised and carefully nurtured attempt at post-Soviet Union rapprochement between the Russian Federation and the West, has spectacularly blown up within 3 months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  And, with it has gone, it appears, all the certainties we had or have about the improbability of nuclear weapons being used by either of the main protagonists.   As the fear of mutual destruction of the both is enough to prevent the one from using such weapons against the other. So, also, do we no longer hear our leaders, our politicians speaking of endeavouring to establish peace with Russia, ever.  But only of defeating it militarily, economically, politically, morally, and, of, course, building a Nato enforced Iron Curtain around it. For people who had and were living in the pre-1989 Cold War epoch, it is no mean feat to comprehend and take on-board seismic transformation which has been evolving in 'worldology' since 5th February 2022. So, it is quite understandable i

  So, well might it be said that we, the inhabitants of Planet Earth, are living in different times today. It was only a matter of a few months ago, say probably the beginning of 2022, when we knew where we stand.  We had a certain amount of security about what is likely to happen and what is unlikely to happen.  We could predict that, though bad things could happen, they were unlikely to happen.  Why? Because we, us humans, have come to believe that we have achieved and were living in 'the Age of Reason.'  That we have become rational and enlightened humans. That we would not 'destroy our world in order to save it.'  That pyrrhic act is not one which is popular amongst our species.  We believed that the time when the guardians of 'western democracy, liberalism and much vaunted  civilization' would terrify the people of the West with the then dreaded refrain - "the Russians are Coming", had long been put to rest for the past 3 or so decades. The more a