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grantcart

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3. Even if he doesn't use them there he wants to normalize them for conventional conflicts
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 06:31 PM
Sep 2017
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-nuclear-weapons-mini-nukes-targeted-strike-conflict-war-north-korea-russia-a7938486.html

This is the point where nuclear proliferation takes off the US will be isolated for a generation.

These smaller nukes will proliferate and the possibility of one becoming lost and arriving in NY, by surface and not by missile for example, becomes very real.

That is the apocalyptic future that worries me the most.
Your optimism impresses me PJMcK Sep 2017 #1
Even if he doesn't use them there he wants to normalize them for conventional conflicts grantcart Sep 2017 #3
You and I see eye to eye (n/t) PJMcK Sep 2017 #4
Recommended. H2O Man Sep 2017 #2
KnR. Thanks, grantcart Hekate Sep 2017 #5
thanks grantcart Oct 2017 #17
I couldn't agree more. mountain grammy Sep 2017 #6
Some have argued the endgame has always been higher oil prices for Putin kairos12 Sep 2017 #7
Oil/hotel deal, tit for tat. No doubt about it. Moskow's bankrupt. lindysalsagal Sep 2017 #9
You are right..He also wants Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, you name it... pangaia Sep 2017 #12
"vacuous narcissistic semi-literate superficial performer" lindysalsagal Sep 2017 #8
What has been worrying me lately is that Orange Horror Show has so gutted the intelligence catbyte Sep 2017 #10
no matter what bluestarone Sep 2017 #11
One of the realities we have to face is that a great deal of the country was never the same grantcart Sep 2017 #15
Musings like this one exacerbate my wondering whether trump is actually the Antichrist. calimary Sep 2017 #13
Oh, I absolutely believe he is. Dave Starsky Oct 2017 #26
There are so many possibilities the outcome will be universally terrible. gordianot Sep 2017 #14
K&R.. I fear you are correct. n/t ms liberty Sep 2017 #16
Eloquent Bayard Oct 2017 #18
Thanks grantcart Oct 2017 #19
scape goading? RandomAccess Oct 2017 #20
not an accident grantcart Oct 2017 #21
The last days of the republic Loge23 Oct 2017 #22
I feel like they're almost trying to incite war. Initech Oct 2017 #23
Probably a "Gulf of Tonkin" incident without the war grantcart Oct 2017 #24
K + R Raastan Oct 2017 #25
Quite the well-thought-out informative and SCARY post. Should be required reading. Once again, Trump WinkyDink Oct 2017 #27
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