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The whole world has gone crazy, the Chinese and Russian bombers provked American and Canadian fighter jets to scramble as they came close to Alaska, the situation in the middle east is getting worse as is the situation between north and south Korea, the American battle fleet has arrived close to Taiwan to send a message to China not to even think about attacking Taiwan, Germany is it seems afraid of threats coming out of the lunatic asylum in Moscow, Hungary is mad as a mad hatter because Ukraine closed the supply of oil from Russia as the pipeline runs through Ukrainian territory which I think is a fair move to stop Russia getting money from the sale of oil, the war in Ukraine is getting even more crazy by the minute with Russia losing thousands of troops and who knows how much equipment in their endless push to gain Ukrainian land and Ukraine responding by hitting targets in the occupied territory and in Russia itself using drones in the air and on the sea, and rockets hitting military infrastructure, America has deployed long range missiles in Europe and the tension is rising between NATO and Russia what will be the outcome, what's going on in our world, as I surf the net it's as if I'm seeing some sort of horror movie which can only turn out devastatingly and maybe the use of nuclear weapons is closer than everyone thinks. It's the start of the weekend only three more days and after that our hotel will get back to normal, the guests gone, my wife and eldest daughter back in work the hotel will once again become a home not that I'm complaining my wife's happy and that's all that has mattered, I don't know if my son will be home as I haven’t heard from him but this weekend there will be loads of people here which is ok but might for me be too much but I'll handle it as I always do. The weather a bit on the chilly side this morning at only 18 and will only rise to 28 or 29 degrees which for me is great like the calm before the storm as it's going to get hotter again, that's summer for you.Maybe the start of the Olympics today will give everyone something else to think about, I can remember a free Croatias first time in the Olympics and perhaps that will one day come for Ukraine. Well if you enjoyed reading my perspective on the world then like, follow and share. Thank you. 

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