[cicero's_son]

I'm beginning to think the best analogy is to the years (decades, if we're lucky) leading up to WWI.

If this is the case, then LCS is correct. Billions will die. One can only hope that the settlement on the other side of the conflict does not repeat the mistakes of Versailles...

[Avoiding_Sulla]

If this is the case, then LCS is correct. Billions will die.

LOL. It's not your fault that this is funny.
You think I disagree with LCS over the deadliness? I've been telling him since we met that I was the more pessimistic.

Actually my number is that only half a billion will remain on the planet -- if we're lucky.
And (without giving you the long story) the people who survive will think they're moral men. They won't find out until it's too late that they're not. (Therein lies the challenge; another long story.)

In order for this to come to pass, it is my conjecture that Clinton's dismantling of the neutron bomb was a charade, and only a very few know it.
Let the Islamists and other antiJewish Amalekian swine put that thought in their pipe and smoke it.