To: Revel
My first response to this article was to almost crap in my pants.
My second response is skepticism. There are a lot of reasons to believe that such a scheme simply could not be pulled off. Even if the entire USA went down (unlikely, as anyone who has either seen the way we rolled Iraq, or knows Murphy's Law can tell you), we've got nuclear sub commanders who would figure out EXACTLY what the hell was going down. And believe me, one way or the other, there would be SERIOUS, SERIOUS HELL (and I mean HELL) to pay.
Serious to the degree that we're back to MAD, or at least a mini version of it.
Besides which, the global economy is so intertwined now, any major power who attempted a Hitleresque move would be cutting their own throats economically. And the leaders of both China and Russia have fresh on their minds things like the Russian Parliament standoff, Tiennamin Square, and Nicolae Ceausescu.
No, if Russia and China want to gain dominance over the USA (and I've no doubt they'd love that), I believe there are far, far, far less painful and major-risk-laden means to try to do it.
To: Luke Skyfreeper
8,915 posted on
01/09/2004 10:00:20 PM PST by
Revel
To: Luke Skyfreeper; Revel
"...Russia and China ..."
This is why Maria Esperanza, the visionary in Betania (more recent than Fatima & Lourdes - she's still alive) , said it will be up to the US to save the world... decades before she saw the the little power (al quada) and the much bigger one behind it just as she saw the twin towers on fire . She also has seem the clock turned back a few centuries (ie no electricity) but I don't know if that was just in south America or all over.
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