I grew up in school practicing 'duck and cover' I remember when Chernobyl accident happened, watching that play out on old 480p CRT TV, six year old me not quite understanding it but seeing the fear in my parents and friends parents. 1991 was an incredible year. With the break up of the USSR it felt like the first time the world could breath and not be always dreading another WWIII or nuclear exchange. In the years that followed the economy improved for Russians, the internet grew and blossomed I got to interact more and more with people from that region of the world and see just how many amazingly creative and talented people there were in Russia, Poland, Ukraine etc. that just wanted to live everyday lives securely without fear.

Today has me looking back on me of the past who could never have imagined that in my lifetime we'd have come full circle to be poised on that same precipice again so soon in my lifetime. Of all the collective issues that humanity faces towards the future that we'd be back here leaves me without many words and even more jaded as to what the future will hold for us as a species.