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"David Nicholls" wrote:

I am more concerned of the approach taken by a super power who is
reasonably convinced (by things like the ABM system) that it can
pre-emptively use WMD's against minor pwers with little or no danger
of a counter strike, than I am by minor powers who fully understand
that their first use of their WMD's would lead to their inevitable
distruction.

Yeah, we really do need to worry about Russia again. They have the only
fielded ABM system on the planet right now, a nationalistic government
and a lot of nukes.

If I were in one of the former Soviet states, I'd make fun of the more
powerful countries, like, oh, the US. Funny how that's actually
happening, isn't it?

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