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Re: How Trump could bring World War III
Meanwhile...
Historically, unpredictable leaders who think military forces is what makes them great tend to stumble into wars because others with aggressive intent underestimate them. With a wildly vacillating Trump and an aggressive Putin, we have a recipe for ending up with a Europe that glows.
A very bad aspect of it is that the $1+ trillion Obama requested for finally modernizing our nuclear forces has barely begun to make our missiles much more reliable than the Russians' unmaintained weapons. In fact, there's a good chance that if a nuclear exchange began between the two powers, a large percentage of the missiles on both sides would fail at launch with the possible result of plutonium poisoning of vast stretches of two continents to go with the incineration of cities.
I doubt at this point that Trump is even aware that our land-based missiles still run off 8-inch floppy disks -- and not knowing one's forces limitations has historically been another factor raising the risk of war.
Meanwhile...
Historically, unpredictable leaders who think military forces is what makes them great tend to stumble into wars because others with aggressive intent underestimate them. With a wildly vacillating Trump and an aggressive Putin, we have a recipe for ending up with a Europe that glows.
A very bad aspect of it is that the $1+ trillion Obama requested for finally modernizing our nuclear forces has barely begun to make our missiles much more reliable than the Russians' unmaintained weapons. In fact, there's a good chance that if a nuclear exchange began between the two powers, a large percentage of the missiles on both sides would fail at launch with the possible result of plutonium poisoning of vast stretches of two continents to go with the incineration of cities.
I doubt at this point that Trump is even aware that our land-based missiles still run off 8-inch floppy disks -- and not knowing one's forces limitations has historically been another factor raising the risk of war.
















