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Ghost Dog

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10. I'll be 60 in a few months' time. What's new this time around...
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 09:03 PM
Mar 2014

... is that both "evil empires"' politico-military-financial establishments appear to have been recently planning within the context of the idea that the use of (¡sólo la puntita!) so-called 'tactical' or 'mini-' nuclear weapons is conceivable without inevitably shortly thereafter going totally MAD.

Maybe we can get Russian state TV and Foxnews to box it out for victory. Rex Mar 2014 #1
I was just thinking that: O'Reilly and this guy in Thunderdome. But it would be more like Squinch Mar 2014 #32
I'm 70 years old. The only thing I see possibly developing here is a mutual agreement between enough Mar 2014 #2
+1 orwell Mar 2014 #4
I'll be 60 in a few months' time. What's new this time around... Ghost Dog Mar 2014 #10
I'll be 66 this year. I remember the 'nuclear attack drills in elementary school' olddad56 Mar 2014 #14
I'll be 61 this year - I don't think I can bend myself into the "duck and cover" position anymore dflprincess Mar 2014 #19
Same here. :) nt Mojorabbit Mar 2014 #24
No need to bother. NutmegYankee Mar 2014 #53
Im 58 and can get down there but not back up rickyhall Mar 2014 #69
Nowadays in school they do that about "armed intruders." Still futile. Squinch Mar 2014 #33
And the citizens of both nations, and the third world, get to suffer for it. /nt Ash_F Mar 2014 #22
Well I'm 28 and I don't want to have to live through what you guys lived totodeinhere Mar 2014 #35
You're smart. Dem4ever27 Mar 2014 #67
agreement kardonb Mar 2014 #40
The Cold War was largely laughable for both sides. chrisa Mar 2014 #66
Uh... orwell Mar 2014 #3
Merry Christmas from PM Rogozin jakeXT Mar 2014 #5
SBIRS is up and running. joshcryer Mar 2014 #43
I would love to know more about stuff like kinetic weapons jakeXT Mar 2014 #45
I was reading the ABM wiki article earlier. joshcryer Mar 2014 #48
This Kiselyov is an idiot blackspade Mar 2014 #6
The Pentagon is getting so drunk tonight BeyondGeography Mar 2014 #7
Perfect! Turbineguy Mar 2014 #8
Newscorp got any shares? RT's AJ, FNN and the GOP work for the Koch JBS crowd. freshwest Mar 2014 #9
I can still remember Khrushchev banging his shoe.......... Capt.Rocky300 Mar 2014 #11
I remember that warrant46 Mar 2014 #13
I don't think anything we saw in Vietnam had anything to do with Russia. olddad56 Mar 2014 #15
Were you there ? warrant46 Mar 2014 #16
Yeah, iamthebandfanman Mar 2014 #25
I suspect they were flying some of the NV aircraft as well. 7962 Mar 2014 #41
Hell, who supplied them with MIGs? NutmegYankee Mar 2014 #51
A friend of mine was a POW....... Capt.Rocky300 Mar 2014 #21
In the south we fought the Russian's proxies, but as the story goes HereSince1628 Mar 2014 #23
"I don't think anything we saw in Vietnam had anything to do with Russia." greiner3 Mar 2014 #62
+1 warrant46 Mar 2014 #70
I was told that the context of what Khrushchev was referring to in that speech is USSR lostincalifornia Mar 2014 #31
I'm 75 - remember 840high Mar 2014 #39
That was at the UN, wasn't it? I remember seeing that as a kid. And the Cuban missile crisis. freshwest Mar 2014 #73
Go nuke scares! Sell more survival bunkers and freeze dried food! Call Infowars now for details! freshwest Mar 2014 #12
Ah... actually, Americans cannot afford those luxuries anymore. T. J. Kong Mar 2014 #30
This message was self-deleted by its author freshwest Mar 2014 #44
Uhm... T. J. Kong Mar 2014 #47
This message was self-deleted by its author freshwest Mar 2014 #50
Absolutely! And I am sooooooo thankful that those right-wing THUGs did not get the helm! T. J. Kong Mar 2014 #52
Someone should give Dmitry Kiselyov yuiyoshida Mar 2014 #17
He didn't say this without clearance at the highest levels. Dem4ever27 Mar 2014 #68
*sigh* Is this the best human history can do? Alhena Mar 2014 #18
What a moron. iamthebandfanman Mar 2014 #20
Agreed! T. J. Kong Mar 2014 #36
Neah neah-neah neah neah booga booga booga. . . DinahMoeHum Mar 2014 #26
ROFLMAO. I think you got it. n/t freshwest Mar 2014 #72
There goes the planet! hrmjustin Mar 2014 #27
Time for Realism and Common Sense on Ukraine T. J. Kong Mar 2014 #28
At least they didn't ruin the Olympics. blkmusclmachine Mar 2014 #29
Ash is sufficient. Why the radioactivity? Sheesh. Eleanors38 Mar 2014 #34
Not possible. Lint Head Mar 2014 #37
Yeah, and we're the only country that can glass Russia. krispos42 Mar 2014 #38
All I can think of is Tom Lehrer and his WW3 song. Nanjing to Seoul Mar 2014 #42
Man, I miss the good old days when "Stratcom" was "SAC" OmahaBlueDog Mar 2014 #46
They obviously don't read DU mindwalker_i Mar 2014 #49
First we have to get 316,000,000 desks to hide under. Then we fight. n/t jtuck004 Mar 2014 #54
yah well, the US could, twice over and not even seriously deplete its stockpile. delrem Mar 2014 #55
Like many here... 3catwoman3 Mar 2014 #56
K&R DeSwiss Mar 2014 #57
So, does this mean Kristol/Giuliani/Palin et. al. go on fellating Putin for being so "manly" hatrack Mar 2014 #58
beware of escalation. politicman Mar 2014 #59
And cockroaches will rule the earth. jsr Mar 2014 #60
Well, it's true. tabasco Mar 2014 #61
Ditto, Putin, ditto. Beacool Mar 2014 #63
Yes, yes, we've heard this story before. Arkana Mar 2014 #64
Because Fukushima is turning out so well. Orsino Mar 2014 #65
And so would they too right afterward treestar Mar 2014 #71
It is worse than FOX. There is no secret that all Russian TV is an arm of Putin. snagglepuss Mar 2014 #74
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