Originally Posted by
A_Van
Another (personal) example brings my memory back to the days some 20+ years ago when we started joined manned space flights with NASA. Nearly half of US astronauts we were dealing with were military as well, and it was quite easy to find common language and understanding with them, great guys. The same for our friends in France and other European countries. Politicians were sometimes talking their usual rubbish and hysterical slogans, but joined work went on, goes on and will hopefully continue through the end of lifecycle of the International Space Station and then through joined Mars exploration and further on.
We all here in Europe wish that grandchildren of our grandchildren would not find themselve in an extended Caliphate. That's a common threat no. 1 at the moment and our generation should evaporate its embryos for the next century as minimum. Then we should start demounting all those absurd theatre sceneries like "NATO goes to invade Russia" and "Russian tanks ready to enter Eastern Europe".