10-16-2019, 03:28 PM
(10-16-2019, 02:32 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(10-16-2019, 01:03 PM)David Horn Wrote: The stakes are simply too high, and the actors capable of starting a war like that are not crazy enough to try … except for the Donald of course. Let's hope the military brass have enough control to stop it if he goes full postal. I doubt any sane officer would permit a nuclear launch short of a response to one on us.
Personally I don't regard the Ayatollah or Kim as any stabler. Then there are Modi and Johnson, the Donald Trumps of their nations. The number of unstable leaders of nuclear weapon nations only seems to grow, not shrink.
Kim is under the watchful eye of the Chinese, and he knows it. Modi has his eye on Kashmir, and may start something with the Pakistanis. Both have nukes, so it will stay conventional. Boris Johnson acts crazier than he is.
Warren Dew Wrote:David Horn Wrote:The factions are the Turks, and their natural allies, and the Iranians and theirs. The Russians are just in it for the money, but yes, they qualify as a faction too.
So which of those do you think Americans should die for, again?
None. Being there is enough to deter action, or they would have been overrun long ago.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
