tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post2505831877279050642..comments2024-03-28T07:50:06.102-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Robert Parry — The Bigger Nuclear Risk: Trump or Clinton?mike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-45231153593236473812016-06-04T12:07:46.716-04:002016-06-04T12:07:46.716-04:00Russia is not quite the menace, so Americans only ...Russia is not quite the menace, so Americans only need to hide under a school desk.Peter Panhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473311771939167712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-85539182108045585512016-06-03T18:21:29.014-04:002016-06-03T18:21:29.014-04:00Apparently they all have air raid shelters in Russ...Apparently they all have air raid shelters in Russia. The US is such a menace to the world.Kaiveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04195639305785321786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-10273631355624742992016-06-03T18:19:55.214-04:002016-06-03T18:19:55.214-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Kaiveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04195639305785321786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-89495328351596268812016-06-03T11:46:08.729-04:002016-06-03T11:46:08.729-04:00Right. The PLA signaled some time ago that in a nu...Right. The PLA signaled some time ago that in a nuclear exchange the US won't be able to recover because it is so concentrated. China is not yet as concentrated and would survive.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-19722209859452468322016-06-03T11:26:05.537-04:002016-06-03T11:26:05.537-04:00Or an underwater nuke off the East coast that crea...Or an underwater nuke off the East coast that creates a giant tsunami that takes out the coastal cities.<br /><br />If the Russians or Chinese want to mess us up, they can. They wouldn't even have to kill anyone, merely disable our internet, phones, power grid, satellites, etc.. <br /><br />Of course we would try to return the favor but the Russians are prepared for a defensive war, we are not. The Russians and Chinese are willing to take casualties in a defensive war, we are not. Americans lives in a bubble.Dan Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11189866002273597534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-53529778148045231872016-06-03T11:18:32.664-04:002016-06-03T11:18:32.664-04:00I believed I mentioned some time ago the Russian s...I believed I mentioned some time ago the Russian strategists were running the idea of detonating a thermonuclear device over Yellowstone that would active the super-volcano and cover North America with ash. <br /><br />This is space fiction stuff, but now it is becoming very real.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-1780653368976444422016-06-03T11:14:49.293-04:002016-06-03T11:14:49.293-04:00No military is going to be able to attack CONUS (c...No military is going to be able to attack CONUS (continental US) on the ground for the foreseeable future. Incoming will be from the air and that pretty much means nukes for devastation rather than precision attacks against military targets. The goal will be to take down infrastructure in order to destabilize the country. <br /><br />Russia and China have already been working to develop and deploy hypersonic MIRV ballistic missiles that are earth-launchd but travel through space at the apex of the trajectory, making them extremely difficult to counter with a missile shield.<br /><br />When this is the only alternative you present the adversary short of capitulation, this is what you get.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-4012060623855039382016-06-03T10:57:50.621-04:002016-06-03T10:57:50.621-04:00There hasn't been any serious fighting on Amer...There hasn't been any serious fighting on American soil since the Civil War. The WWII generation is gone and today's Americans think war is something you watch on TV. Someday we may learn the hard way.Dan Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11189866002273597534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-83884458075171605872016-06-03T05:17:26.851-04:002016-06-03T05:17:26.851-04:00I would say Clinton is 'calculating' but s...I would say Clinton is 'calculating' but stupid, so may end up screwing it up and 'escalating' (via Soros and fools peer pressure).<br /><br />I would say Trump IN THIS CASE would get the sane stance, worst case scenario calculating (to scale up defence spending as stimulus) but most likely not screwing up.Ignaciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082008115484199316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-69793746969492484492016-06-02T21:29:17.988-04:002016-06-02T21:29:17.988-04:00What might happen, for instance, if Ukraine’s nati...<i>What might happen, for instance, if Ukraine’s nationalist — and even neo-Nazi — militias, which wield increasing power over the corrupt and indecisive regime in Kiev, received modern weaponry from a tough-talking Clinton-45 administration and launched an offensive to exterminate ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine and to reclaim Crimea, where 96 percent of the voters opted to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia?</i><br /><br />A calculating president would leave the Ukies to their fate, but use the incident to cement the cold war. A sane president would recognize that Ukraine lies within Russia's sphere of influence.<br /><br />An insane president would escalate the conflict.Peter Panhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473311771939167712noreply@blogger.com