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> Not much we can do, it's coming and it's all there for anyone to see if they are looking

Whether it’s a direct confrontation of superpowers is absolutely still in the air. This can be constrained to proxies. (And from there, avoiding a proxy contest going nuclear. Non-proxy conflicts like Israel-Iran and India-Pakistan are out of our control on the nuclear front.)

> West is going to wish it had done more to help Ukraine, there was a window of opportunity that may have prevented what we're going to be in for

Yes. Unfortunately it seems that the temptation of appeasement isn’t a lesson learned long.




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