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To: sneakypete, sonofliberty2, belmont_mark, DoughtyOne, OKCSubmariner, scholastic, Sawdring
Gee,I wonder why Russia is considere to be the most "capable" of doing this? Would it be becasue they are practically the only ones with the CAPABILITY to do so? "Capability" does not speak to "intent". As for the rest of it,my best suggestion to you is thearapy to learn how to deal with unreasonable fears. Or suicide. Your pick.

You obviously do not understand the least little bit about military intel analysis. In the intelligence world, "Threat" is determined not merely from intent, but from a combination of capability and intent, properly weighted according to the impact of guessing hostile intent incorrectly. In regards to nuclear weapons, threat projections are regularly issued by CIA/DIA based primarily upon capability and in this area the Russian Federation outdoes all of our other potential enemies by a factor of hundred or more. As further evidence of these facts, recently compromised top-secret US contingency nuclearwarfighting plans, revealed that Russia and China were among those nations which would be targeted by US nuclear weapons in the event of a crisis. To ignore this reality and put your head in the sand is the very height of stupidity, no where better demonstrated than by your comments here, which go far beyond the realm of geopolitical ignorance.
46 posted on 04/10/2002 12:31:41 PM PDT by rightwing2
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To: rightwing2
Bingo.
50 posted on 04/10/2002 12:34:53 PM PDT by WALLACE212
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To: rightwing2
You obviously do not understand the least little bit about military intel analysis. In the intelligence world,

Yeah,I do. I also understand these people are in business to find threats,and they WILL find them. I have no doubt they have also researched and graded the chances of our being invaded by Finland,too.

I repeat,Russia is the most likely nuke aggressor merely because they are the only ones with that number of nukes.

54 posted on 04/10/2002 1:56:52 PM PDT by sneakypete
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