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by whooshee 2817 days ago
The reason that world has fewer full-fledged wars now is major powers have mutual assured destruction, US-leading doesn't come close as that.
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Very few countries have nukes and that is part of the US-leading thing. The MAD thing might work out for us, but it is too early to really tell. Might just be pushing the risk to the tails.