"rummel" for "rumsfeld" - I was just very tired

the cold war bi-polar world finished a long time back: welcome to your new multi-polar world -

there are break points throughout this little scenario - the first of them, stopping it from starting on either end. The other most important goal is to prevent China, Russia, US, EU from becoming military participants -

I have no idea what current Chinese leadership thinking is on these matters, as I walked away from proliferation several years back, to preserve what was left of my sanity - the new chinese leadership struck me as being rational, but that could change in a minute

In any case, the "hotline" communications net needs at least one more link, one with China - I have suspect that usual NATO links are sufficient for the EU, but do not know this for a fact - we have got to get down weapons sales to these regions

in the long view, I don't think it's entirely accidental that the ecologically richest countries, US and Russia, were the first with nuclear weapons -

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