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Re:China surprises U.S. with hypersonic missile test by dogma1138 on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:15PM (#28901308)
The US isn’t insane, it pretty much wrote the book on proportional response there is no way that they would escalate from an attack on a military target to glassing civilian population centers.

No US president would issue such an order and even if they would the chiefs of staff would almost most likely disobey it.

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Re:China surprises U.S. with hypersonic missile test by FartyMcFarter on Thursday October 21, 2021 @05:30AM (#28942223)
> No US president would issue such an order

I might have believed you some years ago.

If the US can elect Trump, it can definitely elect someone who would do that.

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