They are willing to destroy this country

[anunitu]

Interesting thing is both parties wanted him,dems and repubs and they were insistent,he was reluctant to run.

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with all things,sometimes you get what you need,and sometimes you get what you deserve. we shall see if we need or deserve what we get.

[MaskedOne]

There is the Russian Fleet steaming to Syria,though Spain denied them a refueling stop. Tensions are rising on borders in Europe.

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And then there is this.

Russia unveils 'Satan 2' missile, could wipe out France or Texas, report says.

Go to nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap

Pick a city in Texas, set your nuke as an airburst, choose Tsar Bomba from the presets and click detonate. Then zoom out so that you map shows the full state. Those 2 relatively small circles around your chosen city are the blast zone. Everything else is still alive.

Russia has better ways to spend money than building a supernuke that far beyond the largest nuke ever tested.

Now if you just want irradiate Texas, that's easier. Switch out airburst for surface detonation and you'll irradiate a decent sized area but the odds of Russia having spent the resources to build a single bomb that can instantly flatten Texas are small.

The reports are misleading at best.

[anunitu]

it is all mostly hype because that is how the cold war went,a Neutron bomb is a different matter,as its goal is not destroying buildings,but killing people with high level,short lived radiation

[B. de Corbin]

Never imagine that broken things that are fixed will stay fixed. Labor unions - very nice. Until they become for profit companies working in their own self interest, just as governments do.

Everything depends on the eyeballs and actions of those in the trenches. When they stop watching, those in positions of trust betray them.

Eternal vigilengence is the price of freedom. That applies not only to those with guns, but to those armed with votes as well.

When the will of the people as described through a vote isn't respected, consequences must result.

Fortunately, there's a vote for that, too.

War with Russia? I think it's a red (get it? "Red"?) herring - we're not at war with China... Massive interstate wars are a thing of the past. Now, wars are economic, or wars are extrastate. Not that that's nice, but Russia isn't likely to be dropping nukes on us, or us on them, unless a lunatic gets control of the buttons.

[anunitu]

Russia wants to be a big dog again,and be a world power. Putin misses his glory days as a member of the KGB...China is trying to be a Capitalist without seeming to be a capitalist...And us of course are still that sleeping giant they all talked about before we woke up for a bit before going back to our nap. Do not poke the giant,that is sleeping so well.

[Tylluan Penry]

So how close have the Russian warships actually sailed to the US? 100 miles? 50? Try ten (for the UK) : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...oyal-navy-sha/

Has there been an incident? No, not yet.

[anunitu]

Happens here also
Russian spy ship spotted near US sub base
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015...-sub-base.html

[monsno_leedra]

Happens here also
Russian spy ship spotted near US sub base
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015...-sub-base.html

That's not really new news though. Their "Spy" ships used to hang out near our sub bases and major port's all the time. Their combatants never really came to close to our shores and their birds stayed fairly far off shore as they made their way to Cuba. Though I have heard and read a few articles that said they were trying to re-open their facilities in Cuba which would potentially open those things back up. They've also re-established some of their arctic stuff which potentially puts them closer to our western side and over Arctic approaches via Canada.

I figure we'll go back to a lot of the stuff that happened during the cold war with near misses, cut off's, over flights, buzz off's and shadows & tails at sea and in the air. Never was in the Army or Air Force so don't really know what was done in that capacity. All in all though a lot of Cold War practices and mentality / procedures are being re-established on their part and we've closed a lot of our stuff.

[Hawkfeathers]

unless a lunatic gets control of the buttons.

That's the possibility, right there.

I'm still PTSD'd from the Cuban Missile Crisis. I spent the first few years of elem. school looking under my bed for Castro.

Some schools are closing on election day due to fear of violence - http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...3231?cid=sm_fb

[anubisa]

I keep asking myself 'what the hell would the founding fathers say?' We need the supreme court. That's my opinion of course.