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Tango0107 Jul 2015 11:19 p.m. PST

"I spent much of this spring obsessed with a question: Could the United States and Russia stumble into war, perhaps even nuclear war? It was a concern I'd first heard in late 2014, shortly after Russia's covert invasion of eastern Ukraine and its military harassment of neighboring NATO member states, which the United States is treaty-bound to defend.

As I spoke to analysts and policymakers, I found a growing and increasingly alarmed community, in the US and Western Europe as well as in Russia, warning that war has once again become a real possibility. They compare Europe of today to that before World War I. If war does happen, they say, recent changes to Russia's nuclear thinking mean such a war could easily go nuclear.

I outlined these threats, how they came to be, and how it would all happen in a long article published last week. But there was one question I was not able to satisfactorily answer: Exactly how likely is all this?…"
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Badgers08 Jul 2015 4:15 a.m. PST

Depends on whether Skynet gets control or not.

dmebust08 Jul 2015 9:47 a.m. PST

5,4,3,2,1 ….. about that fast.

Tango0108 Jul 2015 10:16 a.m. PST

(smile)

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