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We may not be going into WW3 with Russia over Syria after all.
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RE: We may not be going into WW3 with Russia over Syria after all.
(July 8, 2017 at 10:53 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(July 8, 2017 at 10:32 pm)Khemikal Wrote: WW3...with Russia?  A country with a GDP less than a US state?  It would be the shortest world war in history.  

Yes, Russia's economy might be 1/10th the size of the US economy, but Russia still has a larger nuclear arsenal than the US, and can end the war by utterly destroying the US, while being destroyed itself in return, in far less time than it took for the Japanese to conduct the first of the two bombing raids against Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, or for the Germans to seize the first polish town after crossing the frontier on September 1, 1939

Not sure why they'd commit national suicide...and if both parties are dead instantly (counted in hours, anyway)...there's not really much of a war to be fought.

IMO, the future of war isn't in mutually assured destruction or massive land battles for territory..but in sporadic conventional weapons fire and arms length "insurgencies" servicing micro targeted economic goals. That seems to be russias plan, in any case...they've made that much clear. Asymetric capability is the new name of the old game. It costs less and it's worth more.

I'm simply suggesting that people tend to worry about the wars of the past, but things have changed.
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RE: We may not be going into WW3 with Russia over Syria after all. - by The Grand Nudger - July 8, 2017 at 10:57 pm

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