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by mkii 900 days ago
> If China downs one in South China sea, the US might keep it quiet because neither country wants a violent escalation into war just yet.

>> just yet

No, sorry. Neither country wants a war. Full stop. I despise this tendentious reading of normal tension between two major world powers as a claim that war's going to break out. It's dangerous fear-mongering.