| Mr Khan said: I don't think any of you quite realize the vast gap between our own capabilities and the capabilities of other nations. To take your idea of fragility to the logical extension, there is no-one who has the military-economic capability to take us out. Except Russia, i suppose, but i presume that some form of MAD is still in effect,
And given the current prevailing patterns, it will be a long time before any country, anywhere, can truly be destroyed. The strong incentive towards the global status quo is going to keep things on the current path |
There is one country that has the power to destroy the US, and that’s the US.
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. - John Adams, Letter, April 15, 1814
