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		boomboomsubban on Sept 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum On 1, let's not pretend that short term destruction necessarily leads to long term prosperity. We've "won" most of our recent wars, long term prosperity was not the result. On 2, there is no conventional war with a nuclear power.

CRConrad on Sept 11, 2021 [–]

> there is no conventional war with a nuclear power.

True. But maybe there can be a purely conventional war between two nuclear powers.

boomboomsubban on Sept 11, 2021 | [–]

If you want to play Russian roulette, go for it. Please don't force me and billions of others into it.

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