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An 80s track w/ a video with a nuclear meltdown theme I like is Ultravox's 'Dancing With Tears in My Eyes'...

I guess its not all that uncommon to listen to 1980s Cold War related music. I definitely did Nikita in the beginning of the month right after Putin invaded Ukraine. I also did these two German ones

Totally agree, was not wanting to take it political either, as I do have admiration for what has been accomplished by all types of airplanes including military. Today's news does take a toll on one and I was only thinking what you stated so well in your post above that by now, in this 21st century we would have thought humans would have learned by now that war is not the answer, but sadly even here in the U.S. we have narcissistic individuals that can only think of control and their own ego over humanity. Thanks for the well worded posting!

But by me posting airplanes, even military ones, I dont want it to go further political. I just want to post pics of airplanes. It does become sketchy with the military ones because airforces of countries are being posted when there are wars going on and assumptions could be made. With the exception of the Antonov AN- 225 that I posted being destroyed and the Ukrainian MiG 29 right after, that is as far of a political statement that I wanted to make. The Russian Bear bomber with the American fighters intercepting it would also kinda be a message. Kinda like a "phoque you Putin!" The rest of the pics I posted (in the creation of this thread) is just me celebrating my love for all that is airplanes.

Nothing out of NASA, flight wise, has been developed without war technology first or war technology first in mind. I agree that as a species, in 2022 AD, we should be above and beyond killing each other. We have all our past history to learn from that war should never be the answer and our current advancements in life improvement technologies such as the internet, medicines, transportation, etc should tell us that we should never have to kill ourselves ever again because all these technological advancements have and will propel humanity to areas that are ancient ancestors regarded as Godly... But humans are a strange species. It seems that once in awhile, humans are content in destroying all in the name of control. Irony is that Putin has an ungodly amount of riches and has an incredible (mind) control of a percentage of his people and even that is not enough for his ego and his legacy. Somehow he wants more... Just hoping his war stays conventional. Its doing enough human carnage already without the need to go biological or nuclear...