Are there any grownups left in the room?

Borepatch has found someone who has a clue about Russia and the invasion of Crimea and how to deal with it.  The problem is there don't appear to be any adults left in the room to implement it.

Frivolity, matched only by viciousness

I'm afraid until we get some adults involved instead of the children currently in power in D.C., we are possibly on our way to World War III.

I just pray the vanity of a certain person doesn't come into play and the conflict doesn't turn "Hot".

Cuban Missile Crisis- War Avoided - Backstory

From Old NFO we find about a US Air Force B-52 Crew doing their job.

"On that breezy, sunny October  day, I was one of the pilots in the lead B-52 of the two aircraft formation which had received the command message while on alert to launch our aircraft, proceed to our airborne orbit points off the boundary of the Soviet Union, and wait for the execution message to strike the heartland of Russia.  We were not the only strike aircraft launching.  Alert aircraft in pairs from almost every SAC combat base in the United States were scrambling to get airborne and to precede to their strike orbit points.  Our mission was somewhat different because our course would take us in the vicinity of Cuba.  We were directed to vector our course so as to fly over the Russian ships off the coast of Cuba and to report our sightings to SAC headquarters."

The Ancient Chinese Curse

"May you live in interesting times" has never held more terror for me than it does now.   I used to be terrified of the possibility of a Nuclear Exchange between the US and the Soviet Union.  After the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, I breathed a sigh of relief.  Now I find out that the possibility of Nuclear Exchange is getting closer and closer.  The culprits this time?  Pakistan and India.  I'm more concerned with the possibility of Pakistan launching one of their Nukes or losing control of one to a militant group.  Why?  Just look at how anarchic Pakistan is.  Look at the constant struggle in it's own government between hard liners and the moderates.  Look at the constant problems our own government has when trying to obtain cooperation from their government.

Now I direct you to the following post by Cdr. Salamander.

"I was chatting a bit earlier this week with one of my fellow members of the Eeyore Debating Collective, when I wandered down a dystopian path only those military professionals over the age of 45 really remember: thinking nuclear war.You can - and should - remember that we used to think in rather cold ways about nuclear war. Contrary to the Left and the intellectually lazy, nuclear war does not have to be a binary thing where you either have no nukes, or total global nuclear winter. No. That was never the story."

Read the whole thing and you can see why I am becoming very concerned.