May 11—In his May 9 address to the Victory Day parade in Moscow, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a most profound overture to Americans, which went largely unnoticed and unreported in the United States. In recalling the ultimate sacrifice made by 27 million Russians during World War II, and their decisive role in stopping Hitler, Putin also went out of his way to state:

May 10—The mental laziness that accepts a supposedly inevitable collapse of food production, of trade in physical necessities, of mutual security guarantees, and really of civilization, reeks of decades of moral turpitude. But that doesn’t mean one has the excuse of sinking down into it. Calm, deliberate, focused, and passionate interventions are exactly what can carry the day.

While most people live under the delusion that nuclear war is not possible, the U.S.-NATO policy makers are preparing to fight one.