Anyone or any country larger than a postage stamp who thinks the consequences of a nuclear interaction/exchange will be livable is certifiably
nutball. The Russians know full well that if even
one of America's Trident Boomers is left to launch in retaliation, their country will be unlivable for, oh, 150 - 200 years. They wouldn't gain ANYTHING, frankly.
It's just the impatient, fiercely jealous Muslims, celebrating in their vast population's illiteracy, that can even stupidly entertain such an idea, and there certainly would be, essentially, nothing left of them if they decided to start "something". In fact, I'd expect the greater global community, now officially tired and fed-up with rampant, frightening Islamic fundamentalism, would want the Western powers, incl. Western Europe, to finish the job off once and for all, soz we'd
never have to deal with them EVER AGAIN. I mean, we'd turn selected parts of the ME into, essentially, glass if they launched first, even on Israel. The Final Crusades, so to speak.
BTW, NIKK, the Russian people are
far different than they were even 15 - 20 years ago. In 1980, I bought, brand-new, a Russian-built Lada Niva in Canada, and the Russians who dropped them off in Halifax would buy even old rusty 6 cyl. Dodge Darts to take back to Mother Russia. The Niva was, BTW, a total pile of junk.
http://www.auto-types.com/images/lad...Niva_1_8e1.jpg
(it caught fire in the under-dash wiring on Day Two of my ownership, with less than 150 miles on the clock...Oh goody!)
Russians have been vastly and irreversibly Westernized (as have the Chinese...), which isn't culturally or necessarily a good thing, IMHO, but nonetheless, it's a
fact. They all want to be good little consumers and live with heat, light, and
lotsa nifty electronic stuff. Why... even East Africa is experiencing a cell phone boom, I heard yesterday.
After all, who wants to go back to communal farming in communal housing, on faulty Russian-built tractors, and to eating moldy bread and luke-warm sauerkraut for dinner when you an have hot, tasty McDonald's? Or KFC? With hot, carbo-loaded gravy no less! A Russian's dream dinner!
And why is it that no-one in general wants to immigrate back there, for the most part, but lots of them want to come here, where all is so evil and consumerist?
I'd be a bit suspect about looking to the Russians to happily fulfill ambiguous biblical prophecies, but even so, some things, in a world of uncontrolled population growth, are
quite predictable, and thus
bound to happen. No magic or prophecy required, frankly. That stuff's just for the faithful to bite down on.
Too many rats in the maze spells trouble, until those population numbers re-stabilize, which they
always do post-apocalypse. But hopefully next time the survivors won't create a fake wooden God to "take care of everything".... I'd prefer logic and compassion and (oh no) common sense.
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