Posted on May 3, 2017
Listen Now: From Ancient Greece, Lessons On The Risk Of A Modern, Accidental War
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North Korea, China, Iran or Russia getting in an accidental war with the USA. Fear, honor and interest.
Listen Now: From Ancient Greece, Lessons On The Risk Of A Modern, Accidental War
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Thanks for sharing LTC (Join to see). It has been 36 years since I visited the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. In those days I was pondering the Greek Civil War as I had passed the battered fortifications from that war on the train ride south. I was also mindful of the war with radical Islam and communist terror groups which was ebbing and flowing in those days in Europe and around the Mediterranean especially.
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It is a sad consequence of interwoven alliances. So many countries are allied with other countries that are not friends with their friends that when one of them takes offense and starts a military action, it draws other countries into the conflict due to treaties & alliances.
We always hope that cooler heads will prevail in situations that are high stress, but, sadly, actions do happen that trigger a devastating outcome.
We always hope that cooler heads will prevail in situations that are high stress, but, sadly, actions do happen that trigger a devastating outcome.
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SSG(P) (Join to see) - "It's the Americans. They say they've got a plan." "About bloody time!"
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PO3 John Wagner
SSG(P) (Join to see) - Devisive political tools only work for so long when they are ridiculous as the democrats are going to find out in a few months.
I have long hoped that the US and Russia could really get together on stomping out the terrorists. I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to say that the normal folks and leaderships in countries hi jacked by the terrorists would also love to be rid of the scourge.
Russia and the US are capable of working together.
At this time I believe each country has a government interested in crushing the socialists, communists, and fascists. What a wonderful idea.
I have long hoped that the US and Russia could really get together on stomping out the terrorists. I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to say that the normal folks and leaderships in countries hi jacked by the terrorists would also love to be rid of the scourge.
Russia and the US are capable of working together.
At this time I believe each country has a government interested in crushing the socialists, communists, and fascists. What a wonderful idea.
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PO3 John Wagner
SSG(P) (Join to see) - Ask the Indians how they figure that one will turn out.
Less technologically advanced cultures do not survive encounters with more advanced ones.
Less technologically advanced cultures do not survive encounters with more advanced ones.
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Interesting. I didn't think about the angle of if/when DPRK falls, someone is going to grab the nukes. The book "The Ten Thousand" by Harold Coyle begins with a joint US-Russian nuclear "smash & grab" operation in Czechoslovakia that goes wrong when the Germans discover the recovered nukes were on German soil. A genuine shooting match begins between the FRG and an armored corps that has to fight its way from the south of Germany to Bremerhaven in the north. Interesting story that was written many decades ago, but suddenly has current relevance.
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