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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion10/28/2020 1:49:14 pm PDT

re: #253 NO SMOCKING GUN!

They would, because for nuclear deterrence to be effective, it has to be credible. The UK and the US would not start WWIII over Hong Kong, and the PRC knows it.

Back then, China might not have been so sure. Honestly nothing is worth WW3, but 20th century authoritarian paranoia might have seen it differently.

This is before we let Putin get away almost scot-free with Cosplaying Hitler in Ukraine and Georgia.