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The Mikado
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« on: June 20, 2010, 02:58:08 PM »


Explain to me how I am being silly, ignorant or trolling?

So you consider the 45-year rivalry with the Soviet Union that almost went to global nuclear war on multiple occasions...what, exactly?
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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2010, 11:30:48 AM »


Really, any country with enough nuclear missiles to wipe the US of the face of the Earth is an existential threat whether they intend to do so or not.  Hard to argue otherwise, iMHO.
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« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2010, 01:26:49 PM »

Maybe it's one thing to say that most of our foes have never really been an existential threat to the American homeland (even Japan was only a threat to our outlying territories).  That said, it'd be hard to convince me that A. the British in the early 19th century or B. the Soviet Union post-1945 weren't threats to the existence of the US.
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