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I do think there's a significant chance we are looking at the world's first nuclear war here. I also think there are several national governments who'd like to see it just to see what will happen. I place the governments of Russia and China firmly in that category and sadly, there are governments within the EU who are equally sanguine about the whole thing despite lip service to the contrary.

Easier to let it happen than to stop it. And if Russian and North Sea oil triples in price as a consequence, well, that's a bad thing for the consumers and a good thing for the sellers. And China has been very, very friendly with Iran with just that in mind.

If those are the calculations of other countries (or of the Left here), then they're in for quite a shock. Any serious nuclear exchange would cause the world economy to collapse for a significant period -- of course that would hurt America the worst because we have the farthest to fall. Our economy is powerful but brittle and a collapse here will send the world economy reeling. The amount lost overnight in the aftermath would be astounding and devastating for years.

They will find out quickly that all such calculations go out the window...like that little piece of paper that made Chamberlain so enourmously popular. It's funny how people, taken in the mass, love those who let them run happily and ignorantly over the cliff thinking that they're just jogging to nice dip in the ocean.