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Re: A whole civilization might die tonight

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The world got so used to Don's deranged bravado, that I doubt that either china or russia have raised their DEFCON status equivalents, as they would probably do, should any other serious american president said the same thing. Fucking clown.

Hmm. You just gave me a flashback to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. He was saying all these threatening things, and moving all these troops, but surely he would never do that, right?

Wrong, it turned out. Sometimes bluster isn't bluster. Or perhaps sometimes blusterers back themselves into a corner with their mouth.

Re: A whole civilization might die tonight

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In a lot of ways I feel the discourse that he means a nuclear attack buries the lede. This is not likely to happen.

What is more likely to happen is just as bad. Devastating civil infrastructure would put 10s of millions of lives at risk.

And even if one were to look at this from a myopic USA centric lens, has anyone considered how many of these people we were told needed liberation are now radicalized against us?

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