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Will China Launch Nukes and Start WWIII Because of Trump?? (Original Post)
thomhartmann
Mar 2017
OP
China knows that it is only a matter of a short while before American troops are under
world wide wally
Mar 2017
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gordianot
(15,234 posts)1. Among those who have the capability:
If I kill you I can expect you to kill me. What is left lives in the Stone Age.
Jonny Appleseed
(960 posts)2. After the first modern nuke goes off the world is over within 100 years
It's a slippery slope.
Turbineguy
(37,295 posts)3. I think it's unlikely.
Unless there's a trump cabal in NORAD that fakes an attack. I strongly suspect there are already safeguards in place to take away trump's First Strike capability.
5000 years of civilization was not wasted on the Chinese.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)4. Didn't this guy used to be on RT?
world wide wally
(21,739 posts)5. China knows that it is only a matter of a short while before American troops are under
Putin's command. They are more likely launch an attack at Russia first.
MineralMan
(146,262 posts)6. No. It won't, Thom.
Getting desperate, are you?