So, I got sick with what I assume was a severe case of influenza on Monday and spent four days in a fever-induced delirium that left me unable to eat or get out of bed. As I am slowly clawing myself back into reality, I realise World War III almost broke out while I was unconscious.

What you see above is a screenshot of a Ukrainian video of the first of six MIRV warheads — apparently launched from an RS-26 Rubezh medium-range ballistic missile — striking the Yuzhmash aerospace factory in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk (since 2016 known as Dnipro) on Thursday. This is the first time MIRVs have ever struck anything outside of a testing situation. If you have no idea what a MIRV is, you can scare yourself at your own leasure by reading this.

This is a huge escalation and probably the closest we have ever been to nuclear war. Things seems worse now than they’ve been in 1962 or even 1983. The Russian attack was a response to a Ukrainian attack on a Russian military installation in Karachev, Russia on Monday. The Ukrainians had used supersonic ATACMS ballistic missiles, which, reportedly, need someone with a US security clearance to operate because they make use of proprietary military infrastructure to locate their targets. The Ukrainians had just received the go-ahead to use ATACMS missiles inside Russian territory for the first time from the US military. By a lame duck US president, no less. Not wanting to be left out, the Brits and French let loose some Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russia on Wednesday.

Putin obviously saw all of this as an escalation and reacted with another change of Russias nuclear retaliation doctrine and those crazy scary MIRV strikes. How the fuck is the idea that we are as close to nuclear annihilation as never before not the number one news story on all news websites right now? It took me days to hear about all this. Nobody seems to care much. This whole thing is crazy! We’re so fucked…