No Presents this Christmas?

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by yangforward, Jul 7, 2023.

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What would you choose for our next war?

  1. Nuclear with Russia

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  2. Nuclear with China

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  3. Conventional with Russia

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  4. Conventional with China

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  5. Conventional with N Korea

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  6. Conventional with Iran

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  7. Other - please specify

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  1. yangforward

    yangforward Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    and no trees or decorations?

    It seems Joe the Kind wants to provoke China into a war

    to go with the proxy war we are fighting in E Europe
    and the ones he wants with N Korea and Iran, all at the same time.

    Russia and China are both well armed nuclear nations, and
    old Joe's near the end of his life so maybe it's a blessing he wants
    to share with the rest of us.

    In any case no sooner does one war end than another one is already on the way,
    so why not get some say in what it's going to be?
     
  2. yangforward

    yangforward Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I don't want to scare monger but we do need to note that
    shortly after leaving the war in Afghanistan we had already
    shipped weapons to Ukraine and were soon in the next war.

    The public has a heavy responsibility for choosing our leaders,
    and with it the level of aggression we exhibit.

    The media is very unhelpful here by constantly claiming that
    we need to use more aggression and more destruction to
    show other countries who is boss, and that we have to wage
    war to avoid war.
     
  3. yangforward

    yangforward Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    We know from the records and the testimony of RFK jr. that
    nuclear war was only avoided by skillful action in 1962, and on
    a few occasions since then.

    And I don't want us to come anywhere near it ever again.
    And I want Christmas to be as good as ever.
     
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    Except when you do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     
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    yangforward Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes, I should have put a rider on at the beginning that the content could be considered unpleasant.

    On the other hand it is reality and I think people should think a lot harder before voting

    so on a CBA cost benefit analysis I think it is worth the scare to get people to be more careful.

    maybe.
     
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    “Reality” in the minds of those not in reality ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     
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    ya no, yang, democratic administrations depend heavily upon game theory models, run thousands of times on supercomputers in our decision making process.

    do you really think trump's "gut feelings" would have produced better results during the missile crisis?

    of course the war in ukraine is fraught with nuclear danger for the world, but, given the opponent, this seems to be necessary. trump would surrender to his master putin faster than an orange frenchman.
     
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    Drone war with Canada. Will be a lot easier to spot them in the live feed now that all their cover is burning to the ground.
     

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