re: #161 Decatur Deb

Try to reconstruct what the US and the world would look like if we had experienced the postwar era with nothing larger than 2000 lb HE bombs and an army counterpoised to Russia and China. Trump would look like a weeping liberal.

Nah. More like the British and German naval arms race. And probably ending in yet another spasm of destruction like that of a century ago that might kill millions but never threaten everyone. There is no new thing under the sun, as it’s said. Until…

It’s once we’re past 2000 lb bombs and it NBC of all kinds that things get messy.