[ExI] commies vs marxists was: RE: chinese fires, was:RE: book review

[William Flynn Wallace]

re Cuban missile crisis:  we were told next to nothing about what was going
on behind closed doors and never realized until much later how serious it
was.   bill w

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 7:00 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> As terrible as that scenario is for the world, I also worry about a
> miscalculation that results in nuclear launches that at best wipe out a few
> major cities on each side before it is over, or at worst a global nuclear
> holocaust.
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> I'm a bit baffled as to why there seem to be a large number of people
> these days (including in the press and the government) who aren't worried
> about a nuclear conflagration between the US and Russia (again, involving a
> miscalculation over Ukraine) or the US and China over Taiwan.   They act
> like ICBM nuke launches from a desperate actor or due to miscalculation in
> strategy are no longer a real possibility, which scares me.
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> I grew up in the 80s when everyone expected the end of the world as a
> distinct possibility at any moment.   I'm sure my betters on the list also
> remember the Cuban missile crisis as well.
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 6:34 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat
>> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] commies vs marxists was: RE: chinese fires, was:RE:
>> book review
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>> >…The Pentagon, unfortunately, does not share your optimism.   Best case
>> scenario is likely that we destroy all of the chip plants:
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>> Pentagon, Chinese analysts agree US can’t win in Taiwan Strait
>> US mulls ‘scorched earth’ strategy for Taiwan instead of defense
>> By DAVID P. GOLDMAN
>> DECEMBER 6, 2022
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>> Dylan do ponder the following scenario: the US military, having been
>> running wargames and simulations, are well aware of the odds.  With a
>> stubborn aversion to losing irreplaceable carriers and…like… getting
>> killed, and knowing that the US government has way bigger problems on its
>> collective mind than a mere planet-threatening war on the far side of the
>> Pacific, find a way to keep the carriers out of harm’s way.
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>> The Taiwan military, well aware of these war games and sims, recognize
>> they must scuttle those chip fabs.  A grenade is tossed into each
>> manufacturing machine.  The buildings remain standing but no computer chips
>> will go out any time soon.
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>> spike
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