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  • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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    Doctor Phibes
    wrote on last edited by Doctor Phibes
    #4

    I’m sure the the threat is real, but I also can’t help cynically wondering if this is Newt starting up his next failed election campaign.

    I was only joking

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    • MikM Offline
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      It's a better issue on a national level than wokeness.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      • MikM Mik

        It's a better issue on a national level than wokeness.

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        Doctor Phibes
        wrote on last edited by Doctor Phibes
        #6

        @mik said in A warning from Newt:

        It's a better issue on a national level than wokeness.

        It is, but as always with Romney you’re left wondering what he really believes, if anything.

        Now don’t get me wrong he did a nice job as Massachusetts governor. I kind think maybe he should have stuck with that job.

        I was only joking

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          Umm...Newt was never MA guv. You in your cups already? 😆

          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            xenon
            wrote on last edited by xenon
            #8

            I just don't see how the US and China can fight directly without it turning into doomsday.

            How do you have a gentleman's war in this day and age.

            When's the last time nuclear armed solders fired a shot at each other?

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            • MikM Mik

              Umm...Newt was never MA guv. You in your cups already? 😆

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              Doctor Phibes
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              @mik said in A warning from Newt:

              Umm...Newt was never MA guv. You in your cups already? 😆

              Bloody hell, look at me, confusing Gingrich and Romney. I think it's because they've both got silly first names 😆

              I was actually reading it, thinking 'This doesn't sound like Romney at all' 😆

              I'm a moron, clearly.

              I was only joking

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              • X xenon

                I just don't see how the US and China can fight directly without it turning into doomsday.

                How do you have a gentleman's war in this day and age.

                When's the last time nuclear armed solders fired a shot at each other?

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                @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                When's the last time nuclear armed solders fired a shot at each other?

                August 9, 1945

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                • CopperC Copper

                  @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                  When's the last time nuclear armed solders fired a shot at each other?

                  August 9, 1945

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                  #11

                  @copper said in A warning from Newt:

                  @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                  When's the last time nuclear armed solders fired a shot at each other?

                  August 9, 1945

                  Only one of those sides were nuclear armed.

                  In 50 years of belligerent expansion by the Soviets, we never directly fought with them.

                  Why would we fight with China?

                  But, I did answer my own question after asking it. India and China have minor border skirmishes here and there. Which is kinda insane.

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                    xenon
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                    #12

                    Also which war would we most want China / U.S. to resemble in terms of cost benefit?

                    Past performance does not guarantee future results, but the biggies have been:
                    -Civil War
                    -WW1
                    -WW2
                    -Korea
                    -Vietnam
                    -Middle East wars

                    Pick your poison.

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                    • X xenon

                      @copper said in A warning from Newt:

                      @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                      When's the last time nuclear armed solders fired a shot at each other?

                      August 9, 1945

                      Only one of those sides were nuclear armed.

                      In 50 years of belligerent expansion by the Soviets, we never directly fought with them.

                      Why would we fight with China?

                      But, I did answer my own question after asking it. India and China have minor border skirmishes here and there. Which is kinda insane.

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                      @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                      @copper said in A warning from Newt:

                      @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                      When's the last time nuclear armed solders fired a shot at each other?

                      August 9, 1945

                      Only one of those sides were nuclear armed.

                      In 50 years of belligerent expansion by the Soviets, we never directly fought with them.

                      Why would we fight with China?

                      But, I did answer my own question after asking it. India and China have minor border skirmishes here and there. Which is kinda insane.

                      India and Pakistan is even more scary

                      I was only joking

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                      • X xenon

                        @copper said in A warning from Newt:

                        @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                        When's the last time nuclear armed solders fired a shot at each other?

                        August 9, 1945

                        Only one of those sides were nuclear armed.

                        In 50 years of belligerent expansion by the Soviets, we never directly fought with them.

                        Why would we fight with China?

                        But, I did answer my own question after asking it. India and China have minor border skirmishes here and there. Which is kinda insane.

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                        Jolly
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                        #14

                        @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                        @copper said in A warning from Newt:

                        @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                        When's the last time nuclear armed solders fired a shot at each other?

                        August 9, 1945

                        Only one of those sides were nuclear armed.

                        In 50 years of belligerent expansion by the Soviets, we never directly fought with them.

                        Why would we fight with China?

                        But, I did answer my own question after asking it. India and China have minor border skirmishes here and there. Which is kinda insane.

                        We came within a gnat's ass of eradicating the Soviet Union from the face of the earth. Nuclear-armed bombers were already in route to their destinations, the second wave of bombers was already fueled, armed and sitting on the tarmac. The silos were dialed in, awaiting final launch codes. The situation was Defcon 2 for the USAF. All naval and army assets were at Defcon 3.

                        BTW, the U.S. was not just going to nuke the U.S.S.R. China was going to be a smoking, radioactive Hell, before the day was over. Every communist country on the face of the earth capable of harming America had at least one nuke headed their way. The U.S. had determined that whatever remained of America would not be attacked by any remnant of any communist country capable of hurting us.

                        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                        • JollyJ Jolly

                          @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                          @copper said in A warning from Newt:

                          @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                          When's the last time nuclear armed solders fired a shot at each other?

                          August 9, 1945

                          Only one of those sides were nuclear armed.

                          In 50 years of belligerent expansion by the Soviets, we never directly fought with them.

                          Why would we fight with China?

                          But, I did answer my own question after asking it. India and China have minor border skirmishes here and there. Which is kinda insane.

                          We came within a gnat's ass of eradicating the Soviet Union from the face of the earth. Nuclear-armed bombers were already in route to their destinations, the second wave of bombers was already fueled, armed and sitting on the tarmac. The silos were dialed in, awaiting final launch codes. The situation was Defcon 2 for the USAF. All naval and army assets were at Defcon 3.

                          BTW, the U.S. was not just going to nuke the U.S.S.R. China was going to be a smoking, radioactive Hell, before the day was over. Every communist country on the face of the earth capable of harming America had at least one nuke headed their way. The U.S. had determined that whatever remained of America would not be attacked by any remnant of any communist country capable of hurting us.

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                          @jolly said in A warning from Newt:

                          @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                          @copper said in A warning from Newt:

                          @xenon said in A warning from Newt:

                          When's the last time nuclear armed solders fired a shot at each other?

                          August 9, 1945

                          Only one of those sides were nuclear armed.

                          In 50 years of belligerent expansion by the Soviets, we never directly fought with them.

                          Why would we fight with China?

                          But, I did answer my own question after asking it. India and China have minor border skirmishes here and there. Which is kinda insane.

                          We came within a gnat's ass of eradicating the Soviet Union from the face of the earth. Nuclear-armed bombers were already in route to their destinations, the second wave of bombers was already fueled, armed and sitting on the tarmac. The silos were dialed in, awaiting final launch codes. The situation was Defcon 2 for the USAF. All naval and army assets were at Defcon 3.

                          BTW, the U.S. was not just going to nuke the U.S.S.R. China was going to be a smoking, radioactive Hell, before the day was over. Every communist country on the face of the earth capable of harming America had at least one nuke headed their way. The U.S. had determined that whatever remained of America would not be attacked by any remnant of any communist country capable of hurting us.

                          Right - maybe that insanity should teach us that avoiding war is the best investment. What a calamity that would have been.

                          What’s so bad in our world today that we would even entertain that outcome as a realistic possibility?

                          If we think that’s even a remote possibility - shouldn’t we be doing everything in our power to build better relations?

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                            that is why it is so important that the US look outward rather than inward.

                            Very very important to engage with other countries at times like this. Isolationism would be the wrong response at a time like this.

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