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Originally Posted by CC1
As bad as our economy is our military is still vastly superior to the Russian military at this point. Russia's economic difficulty after the collapse of the Soviet Union means it is no longer a superpower. I am more wary of China than Russia at this point.
The Iran situation is a difficult one. The USA has gambled that internal pressure would topple the current government and possibly mean a new government more open to cooperating with the world in regards to nuclear proliferation. That strategy seems to either be going nowhere or going so slowly it is clear Iran will have a nuclear weapons capability before it comes to fruition.
The scary thing about a country like Ian getting nuclear weapons capability is that they are not governed by logic or a sense of self preservation that both the United States and Soviet Union had during the cold war. There are elements of the government of Iran that would risk everything to nuke Israel.
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Iran is nothing without Russia. We would have went and destroyed their nuclear program long ago if we did not fear a war with Russia. You say they are not a superpower. In doing a search on the net I have seen estimates as "low" as them having 5000 nuclear weapons and as high as 16000.
You are thinking only in terms of the former wars. We have not seen a nuclear war yet. The Russians or Chinese for that matter need probably less than 25 nuclear hits on America and it would be completely over as far as our lifestyle (whoever was left) is concerned.
Yes we would MAYBE retaliate. Russia is a very huge country geography wise. For many years they have been working on underground shelters in waiting for nuclear war. They could absorb hits much better than we could.
Im not sure Obama would even stand up to the Russians much less in alliance with China. In the first 6 months of my walk with the Messiah I had a vision of Chinese soldiers in America rounding people up.
When I met my wife years later she said as a young believer she had a vision showing the same thing. I could see Obama either surrendering outright or rather quickly. Americans have no taste for war. If they are left alone to watch TV and party at will most would not care if Obama was President or Vladimer Putin.