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> America has no appetite to take on an enemy like Russia or China

We should remind ourselves that "taking on" such entities might well mean the end of the human race.

In many ways, we got lucky that Hitler and Mussolini appeared before the atomic bomb was invented. Since 1945, the world effectively lost the option to "take on" certain countries, even if they were to succumb to pure evil.



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