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Oh, guys... You're walking on thin ice... I feel like it's going to crack soon.

And Heroin hit the nail on the head. The cult of the superiority of strength over reason can be roughly defined as the source of all the ******* that is happening. And accordingly, the adherents of this cult can be defined as adherents of evil on Earth. (In one way or another, each of us has probably contributed to this mess in our lives, but we shouldn't blame ourselves too much - when almost everything around is infected, the main issue is the degree of infection and the direction of personal movement, rather than a single mistake or mistakes).
And it's not just about the military. Those who direct the military are much more dangerous. Some psychologists have even come close to understanding what we're talking about, and have given a name to the group of beings (they can no longer be called humans) who are implementing this cult - pathocrats.
But until there is clarity on this issue, and on what to do to cure humanity (and the disease has now captured almost all government structures around the world), it seems that we are still far from that.

And... Well, if you mean that the planet will shake things up, then there's no problem. These people will come to an agreement with the planet.

Read what is written more carefully:

As a more developed being, a person has other needs besides purely nutritional ones, and when these are not satisfied, the behavioral program described above is activated.

I hope you won't claim that the majority of the population of Ukraine is satisfied with their own material situation?

I don't know how capable you are of looking inward, but from the outside it is clear that you are in an altered state of consciousness, and political issues cause you a kind of animalistic rage. This is exactly how that mechanism I described above works. If you were given a gun/axe/red button, you would gladly go and kill vatniks, Soviets, etc.

It seems to me, or are you planning to disrupt the balance?...

In order to contemplate breaking it, it must first exist. Looking around, are you inclined to believe that it hasn't been broken yet?

Looking at the surroundings, are you inclined to believe that the balance hasn't been disrupted yet?

In short, your answer is "I don't know."

I'll add a gamer's perspective to the situation. When the Heroes community on this forum starts discussing balance, the best they can come up with (if I'm not mistaken) is the principle that there should be some kind of counter for everything, with some probability, but at least a chance of a counter.

Now, armed with at least this approach, let's return to our reality. I'm saying that there are grounds to suspect that the balance between Might and Magic has already shifted in favor of Might. And what makes me think this is the ambiguity of the answer to how to counter nuclear weapons in the hands of a power-hungry psychopath (or psychopaths). There's a vague suspicion that this is overpowered. The minor military conflicts that Heroin wrote about are a consequence of a more total imbalance that underlies all of this and has already tipped the global scales.
Or, there's the point of view that we, as thinking beings, are now under the threat of extinction, training for some unknown abilities of self-control and control over others. Which again only suggests that the balance has already shifted, and we must now restore it by training our minds.

Nuclear weapons were created by nerds (read: intelligent people).

Or, there's the viewpoint that we, as sentient beings, are currently undergoing a training period, facing the threat of extinction, to develop abilities in self-control and control over our surroundings, the ability to negotiate, communicate, and so on. Which, in other words, suggests that the balance has already shifted, and our task now is to restore it, urgently training our minds.

It's my turn to respond, I don't know.

So, you're talking about something that doesn't exist? ...