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Trumps swansong? possibly war with Iran?

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Old 8th Jan 2021, 23:21
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Originally Posted by AceMT
Nutloose, you are a fearful lib. Go back to watching CNN dude, and PUT YOUR MASK ON! You are obviously eating the lefts agenda hook line and sinker. You are a traitor to this country and a pu$$y.

Lapsap, I will take your bet (I say it happens) but maybe not for several months.

West Coast - You are delusional sorry to say. I appreciate your confidence in our military, but they would take Taiwan in a day, or two and our new China President-Elect will let them have it with nary a word of rebuke.
That’s not me, it’s military experts studying that exact scenario saying China is years away from having the right mix and amount of equipment to complete a successful invasion.
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Old 8th Jan 2021, 23:23
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Originally Posted by AceMT
Nutloose, you are a fearful lib. Go back to watching CNN dude, and PUT YOUR MASK ON! You are obviously eating the lefts agenda hook line and sinker. You are a traitor to this country and a pu$$y.

Lapsap, I will take your bet (I say it happens) but maybe not for several months.

West Coast - You are delusional sorry to say. I appreciate your confidence in our military, but they would take Taiwan in a day, or two and our new China President-Elect will let them have it with nary a word of rebuke.
Biden is a right wing democrat.. Would be a liberal Tory in the UK. He isn't Bernie Corbyn Saunders. You do shoot off like Col Saunders it seems. Sgt NLG RAF. Airframes by the grace of god. GW1 and Telic vet.
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Old 8th Jan 2021, 23:44
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Originally Posted by Just This Once...
Thankfully no US President has a nuclear trigger, or indeed any individual for that matter. He can ask for a strike for sure, but there are real people in the chain.
Consider a few points:

1. At least one leg of the U.S. nuclear triad actually has weapon systems with physical triggers that are held in a human hand. But fear not; pulling said trigger simply closes one permissive link in a very long line of permissive links.

2. The statement by U.S. SotH about “taking the codes away” from Trump is legally absurd (but certainly political dynamite for an ignorant media).

3. The scenario of the U.S. POTUS unilaterally launching a nuclear strike is procedurally absurd. That’s not how the U.S. nuclear command and control system works.

4. During times of U.S. administration transition, it is common (and prudent) to bolster U.S. military readiness in global hot spots. Iran certainly qualifies.
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Old 8th Jan 2021, 23:50
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BFS, how dare you attempt to apply logic and sanity to a crazy nuts, illogical thread!!!
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Old 9th Jan 2021, 00:04
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BFS, how dare you attempt to apply logic and sanity to a crazy nuts, illogical thread!!!
Agree totally, some of us have been down in first contact Titan land with the experts. Top blokes.
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Old 9th Jan 2021, 07:37
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Given that in his entire term he has done everything to avoid any new conflicts and was indeed pulling troops out of current actions, no he will not start any new wars. No more dead American kids coming home I believe was his mantra.

But don't worry, you will get your war give Biden a chance he is only in. Nukes, you never know. I give it a year before there is a new threat from the middle east and Joe the puppet will launch the necessary military intervention. Corporate-owned media will do the usual spin giving the usual fictional accounts on why it's necessary.
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Old 9th Jan 2021, 09:22
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Can we just avoid these thinly veiled political threads, they only serve to draw out the philosophical and moral gulf that exists between those at either end of the political spectrum.

The Trump Presidency will be over in a few days thank god. But he isn’t going to nuke Russia or vaporize Tehran so everyone can calm down, in fact from what I have seen he has gone out of his way to de-escalate and avoid conflict with foreign nations, especially compared to his predecessors both Republican and Democrat.
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Old 9th Jan 2021, 10:07
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Totally agree.

Nutty - I think you know exactly how these threads are going to pan out, why can you not simply start them in Jet Blast where they belong and not Mil Aviation. It was a fantastic place Mil Aviation....once.
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Old 9th Jan 2021, 10:19
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Originally Posted by West Coast
Do you understand how the system works?
Thank-you for asking and yes, I do know exactly how it works. Moreover I have absolute trust in the professionalism and rigour in the USAF & USN personnel on all such matters. They are amongst the finest people I have worked alongside.

If you are US citizen, which I presume is a given, then you have no need to be concerned with the way your nuclear forces are structured and led.
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Old 9th Jan 2021, 10:26
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Come on Mods....to Jet Blast!
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Old 9th Jan 2021, 10:58
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Trumpanzee
Brilliant!

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