...Beijing will be a pile of smoldering rubble.
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Confirming that the leadership has reinforced nuclear bunkers elsewhere and are willing to sacrifice population and territory to a retaliatory strike, if push comes to shove.
Our POTUS is showing his discipline. He is being poked and prodded from all sides that hope he takes the bait so they can scream “unstable warmonger”.
Launch a missile that fails to make it (to wherever), sending it careening towards the 3-gorges dam. Warn them than we cannot stop it, what a terrible tragedy, so sorry, blah, blah, blah. Tell them Loral is responsible. Think it will work?