And this is potentially a shooting war with nuclear risk.
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So are we headed for a direct shooting war with Tehran?
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And Georgia was in an open shooting war barely a decade ago.
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"Short of a shooting war, you have to find bridges," he says.
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What had been a cold conflict had suddenly escalated into a shooting war.
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The worst scenario — a shooting war — has been averted, at least for now.
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Is he willing to end up in a shooting war with Russia over it?
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Which is to say it's a shooting war and it hasn't stopped since 2014.
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If this continues, sooner or later we will find ourselves in a shooting war.
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Finally, he hasn't blundered into an unnecessary shooting war, which many would find immoral.
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The psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein explores this complexity in his book, "Shooting War" (Glitterati Editions).
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"We haven't had a shooting war in a long time with China," she said.
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NATO is teetering on the edge of a shooting war with Russia, just ask Turkey.
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We don't have to rewind 70-something years to the last Pan-European shooting war.
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The far greater risk is a shooting war or China's annexation of the South China Sea.
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Mr. Kadyrov came of age with a gun in his hand in an actual shooting war.
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But it might stop short of the shooting war both sides insist that they don't want.
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That&aposs short of an actual shooting war, going after that pipeline is a pretty big deal.
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But unless we change the current trajectory we might actually lose a shooting war down the road.
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To the contrary, the front line in the Donbas region marks the only shooting war in Europe.
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Japanese officials balk at any suggestion that the country would ever get into a shooting war with China.
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Iraqis deemed a shooting war with Iran and its Iraqi allies as a far cry from that mission.
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This situation threatens to turn regional tensions into a shooting war, as well as destabilizing the global economy.
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This is 'a global existential war' that likely will become 'a major shooting war in the Middle East again.
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The deterioration in U.S.-China relations could escalate and turn into a shooting war between two nuclear armed superpowers.
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And neither will they lead — with all due respect to worried American generals — to a shooting war with China.
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Fifth, no one in either Washington or Moscow wants to see a shooting war between the U.S. and Russia.
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The risk AI researchers are concerned with is about humanity being outmatched, not about getting into a shooting war.
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Any suggestion now of a trade war with China — or worse, a shooting war — would horrify most of Asia.
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He understands the real danger of a direct shooting war with America, and he will seek to avoid it.
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A shooting war in space would clutter the zone with bits of satellites, making further operations difficult or impossible.
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In other words, the ongoing trade war is trumping the threat of a shooting war — for now, at least. 2.
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In other words, the ongoing trade war is trumping the threat of a potential shooting war — for now, at least.
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If that's the case, "the U.S. will not want to get involved in a shooting war over Yemen," Cancian said.
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But critics argue that tough words themselves can be dangerous and, even if inadvertently, can escalate into a shooting war.
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Opinion Columnist For now we seem to have averted an all-out shooting war between the United States and Iran.
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Both sides appear to have stepped back to avoid a nasty and regionally dangerous shooting war — but for how long?
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Through their actions, we have been on the path of a self-fulfilling prophecy that leads to a shooting war.
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Neither side has any interest in seeing conflicts waged on the Internet break out into a shooting war between nuclear superpowers.
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" José Luis, a driver, fears that "Trump will declare war," an actual shooting war, "if we don't pay for the wall.
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With Donald Trump in the White House, Mr Allison worries that even a trade war might turn into a shooting war.
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Still, they offered a glimpse into the kinds of methods Tehran could employ to potentially devastating effect during a shooting war.
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Simply put, these four countries -- even North Korea -- are cautious about doing something that could start a shooting war with America.
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No one should want to start a shooting war between great powers "in the shadow of nuclear weapons," Joffe told me.
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Still, we must avoid a shooting war with a country whose threshold for resorting to nuclear weapons is lower than ours.
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They also don't want to have a shooting war occur and have 20 million refugees from North Korea going to China.
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"The president's instinct is not to get in a shooting war, and I think he is right about that," he said.
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They also don't want to have a shooting war occur and have 20 million refugees from North Korea go into China.
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In such a shooting war, the senior administration official said, those two countries would most likely bear the brunt of the repercussions.
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"It looks like the shooting war is over for now, but there is always the potential for escalation at any point," Markets.
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That creates a dynamic where we have a shooting war between the world's only superpower (America) and the world's only emerging superpower (China).
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But it becomes a different question entirely in a shooting war at the scale and speed of which the AI has never seen.
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If that happens, the US would be treaty-bound to defend the Baltic country, almost assuredly setting up a shooting war with Moscow.
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But here's the thing: The Iranians always seem to back off just before the potential boiling point that would lead to a shooting war.
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"We could get into a shooting war with Iran," said Representative Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona and a former Marine who served in Iraq.
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A revived and vigorous Western information campaign would achieve a measure of informational reciprocity, exploit this Chinese Communist vulnerability, and avoid a disastrous shooting war.
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Also worth watching are the Saudis, Emiratis and the Israelis, each of whom could stand to gain from a shooting war between the U.S. and Iran.
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"In a shooting war with creditors, immense pressure could be brought on Venezuela," Lee Buchheit, one of world's top sovereign debt restructuring lawyers, has said recently.
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A powerful United States Space Force would be the means of keeping the peace, making sure that a shooting war in the heavens does not occur.
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And should an attack happen, there's a small but real chance a shooting war with Russia becomes a possibility — especially if the US kills Russian troops.
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The Persian Gulf, where Iran and the United States are most likely to engage in a shooting war, plays a central role in Tehran's propaganda universe.
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Iran could hardly win a shooting war with the United States, but its conventional forces would make any ground war costly and drawn out, analysts project.
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Hillary Clinton "wants to start a shooting war in Syria... that could very well lead to World War III," Trump said in Florida days before Election Day.
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Yet at the same time, diplomats say, the Saudis and Emiratis also have good reason to hope that the escalating threats stop short of a shooting war.
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Just one false move, either by accident or on purpose, could spark a crisis where lives could be placed in harm's way – and lead to a shooting war.
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Mr Trump's trusted adviser, Stephen Bannon, believes that America is engaged in a civilisational struggle likely to lead to "a major shooting war in the Middle East again".
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The attacks in Paris and Brussels prove that the war on terror is a good old fashioned shooting war with bad guys who simply want to kill us.
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But to me, the risk of trade wars around the world and a shooting war in the Middle East are more likely the reasons for those tandem moves.
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The removal and destruction of this hazard would render a great service and would hone the Space Force's operational skills even if no shooting war ever broke out.
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The Ukraine crisis: Sure, this might not be on the front pages of your favorite newspaper, but there is a very real shooting war going on in Ukraine.
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Beyond the Myth of the War Photographer: In "Shooting War," the psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein explores the complexity of photographers' day-to-day work covering conflict and human depravity.
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In recent months they have carried out strikes that seemed designed to harass the United States and her allies, but not to provoke an all-out shooting war.
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He had just finished shooting "War Dogs" at the time and we thought it would be so cool to work with someone who is one of our peers.
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They'd say that Afghanistan was now a "postgraduate" war, an implicit contrast with the experiences some of us had on earlier deployments, when it was still a shooting war.
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Most military guys who've been in combat, the last thing they want to do is get involved in a shooting war, especially if it hasn't been well thought out.
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President Donald Trump decided to strike Syria on Friday night, and he might incur some unintended consequences — like increasing the risk of getting into a shooting war with Russia.
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On the other, because of Tehran's oft-repeated position of not allowing anyone else to export oil from the Gulf if it cannot, there may be a shooting war.
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That is why cyberweapons have emerged as such effective tools for states of all sizes: a way to disrupt and exercise power or influence without starting a shooting war.
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But the United States, with the increased and frequent passage of its naval vessels in the West Philippine Sea, is more likely to be involved in a shooting war.
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It's time to wake up and recognize that the fight against terrorism has become a domestic shooting war, one in which almost everyone you know is a potential target.
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Among the potential disasters now are an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah that would encompass parts of Syria, or a shooting war between Turkey and Assad regime forces.
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And higher oil and, thus, gas prices – almost certainly a built-in feature of a sustained shooting war with Iran – isn't going to play well as an economic talking point.
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BRUSSELS — With strong memories of the last catastrophic war in Iraq, Europeans are united in opposing what many consider the United States' effort to provoke Iran into a shooting war.
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"One of the last things Obama wanted was to get into a shooting war with Russia over Syria," said Derek Chollet, Mr. Obama's assistant secretary of defense for international affairs.
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"Right now it's like the old cold cyber war and the last thing you want to do is turn it into a hot shooting war," the unidentified official told CNN.
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It's also clear that if this conflict escalates to an actual shooting war, it will dominate the U.S. security agenda and crowd out any other issue for the foreseeable future.
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To be fair, a shooting war in space could be disastrous for astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), communications satellites, and by extension, the rest of us here on Earth.
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U.S. warships and planes have dramatically stepped up their own operations there in response to Chinese posturing, but it is unclear how survivable they would be in a genuine shooting war.
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The president is eager to avoid a messy shooting war with Iran, which he believes would violate his campaign promise to keep America out of protracted conflicts in the Middle East.
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Saudi Arabia wants the United States to take a strong stand against Iran politically, but its leaders worry that they will get caught in the crossfire if the shooting war escalates.
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"The problem here is if we end up in a shooting war, then you can expect things like cyberattacks on a level we have never seen before," he said on MSNBC.
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Apart from raising the hope of averting a shooting war between America and Iran, the G7 summit also offered some prospect of easing the trade wars that Mr Trump so enjoys waging.
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" McCain, the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, pointed to North Korea's proximity to Seoul, the heavily populated capital of South Korea, saying that in a shooting war, "the carnage would be horrendous.
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The most talented state sponsors of attacks — mostly Russia, China, Iran and North Korea — have carefully calibrated their operations in cyberspace to achieve their strategic aims while avoiding a real shooting war.
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The raid appears to have sent Mr Trump hurtling towards the head-on collision with the rule of law that always seemed likelier than a trade or shooting war to define his presidency.
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Oil is collapsing amid fears that tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia will lead to a deeper price war in an oversupplied crude market — rather than a shooting war in the Middle East.
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"The only thing more complex than the Syrian civil war would be the Syrian civil war overlaid with an Israel-Iran shooting war," said Henry Rome, Iran researcher at global risk consultancy Eurasia Group.
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This suggests that despite Russia's warnings of dire consequences, it appears Russian commanders are being extremely careful not to respond in a way that could escalate tensions with the US into a shooting war.
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She flew all night long from Cambodia to the Middle East to get a ceasefire that would avoid a full-out shooting war between Hamas and Gaza, to protect the peace of the region.
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PABRADE, Lithuania — If a shooting war ever breaks out between Russia and the NATO alliance, it could well be in a place like Pabrade, a little town near the edge of a little nation.
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The attack also comes in the context of a long-running trade war between Russia and Ukraine, on the sidelines of the actual shooting war in eastern Ukraine between the government and Russian-backed separatists.
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Regarding the risk of getting into an accidental war with Russia -- it is again worth recalling the recent past: that accidents do happen, and they do not necessarily lead to a shooting war between major powers.
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Between potentially getting into a shooting war with Russia and the far larger contingent of jihadists in the rebel ranks, there are good reasons to believe a US bombing campaign could have made things even worse.
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Whatever Secretary of State John Kerry might say, the U.S. Navy is unlikely to blast unarmed Russian military aircraft from the sky, even if they come uncomfortably close – at least not without a shooting war already underway.
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" Tillerson said that Trump didn't want to get into a shooting war, but that "if North Korea takes actions that threatens South Korean forces or our own forces, then that will be met with an appropriate response.
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While so-called gray zone operations are meant to stay below the threshold of inciting open conflict, the moves always run the risk of touching off exactly what both sides are trying to avoid: a shooting war.
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But averting a shooting war doesn&apost put US-Iran relations back on the right path, and there&aposs more the US could do to avoid escalation and more needless violence, writes Defense Priorities fellow Bonnie Kristian.
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"We can, with a little bit of luck, we can make the four years of Donald Trump appear as a historical aberration, somebody doesn't get us in a full blown shooting war with Iraq," he told attendees.
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Sunday's strikes in Iraq and Syria are a sensible and proportionate use of force by a commander in chief who, despite his often-hyperventilating rhetoric, has hitherto proven reluctant to get into a shooting war with Iran.
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But it is in the Western Pacific, where China has been constructing military bases and wooing new allies with multibillion-dollar projects, that hostilities would likely erupt if a miscalculation ever turned a trade war into a shooting war.
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"Casual talk by the President or Vice President — or tweets — about solving the North Korea problem with military force risk a confrontation that could quickly and unpredictably embroil the region in a shooting war," he said in a statement Tuesday.
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Mr. Lorenzana said that "the United States, with the increased and frequent passage of its naval vessels in the West Philippine Sea, is more likely to be involved in a shooting war," using the Philippine name for the disputed sea region.
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He has denied that he is a puppet for the scandal-hit mogul and has defended his qualifications as a comedian to lead a country involved both in a shooting war and the broader conflict between the West and Russia.
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So you end up in a situation of "optimal tariff warfare", which is actually more like an arms race than a shooting war, in the sense that there's (usually) no victor and no resolution, just a lot of wasted resources.
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The Kurdish issue is murky, too, because Turkey's military is in a shooting war with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the P.K.K. Still, no one is taking heart from what may prove to be a temporary and limited immunity.
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And — as Taibbi concedes — the various Russiagate conspiracy theories didn't actually lead us into a shooting war with Russia, whereas the Iraq debate gave us a true foreign policy disaster, not just a strange cultural obsession with a special prosecutor's work.
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Which is to say that if shit gets real between the US and China and a shooting war began, China could hypothetically use its foothold in the American electronics market to do anything from tap phones to simply turning them all off.
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Russian military officials have stated that if the current situation escalates into a shooting war—a possibility that, for now, remains distant—their prime targets for retaliation will not be the U.S. but allied countries where previously INF-banned missile systems are based.
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Trump, by suggesting he's maybe kinda sorta not into NATO, is undermining this — making it more likely that Russia might risk invading an American ally, and hence more likely that the US could be actually drawn into a shooting war with Russia.
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America's two main allies in the fight against ISIS in Iraq are now in a shooting war with each other over control of an oil-rich city — a fight that has the potential to throw Iraq into chaos and possibly even full-scale civil war.
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In brief: Airstrikes only account for a fraction of Syria's deaths, a no-fly zone in the north (as commonly urged) will have little real impact, and applying a no-fly zone more broadly would risk a shooting war with Russia (again, for little benefit).
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According to Daily Beast Senior Editor Michael Weiss, it got so bad in 2007 that General David Petraeus wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates saying he was about to tell President George W. Bush that the U.S. was already in a shooting war with Iran.
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Besides Skarsgård, In Order of Disappearance is filled with familiar faces from European cinema, including Game of Thrones' red-bearded Kristofer Hivju as an ill-fated mob henchman, Peter Andersson as Nils' shady brother, and Bruno Ganz as a Serbian crime lord who swoops into town and escalates the shooting war.
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While US nuclear doctrine doesn't formally rule out the offensive use of nuclear weapons, it's basically understood that a president wouldn't consider using nukes unless America had somehow gotten involved in a shooting war with a nuclear power, like Russia or China, and that things would have to have gone very wrong.
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"You can talk about 'the execution photograph from the Vietnam War,' and not just the generation who lived through it but multiple generations can call that image to mind," said Susan D. Moeller, the author of "Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat," and a professor of media and international affairs at the University of Maryland.
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But it was also "High Noon," the doomsday thermonuclear clock ticking loudly even as a dangerous storm was brewing abroad: anti-American governments in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, ungrateful semi-socialist regimes in Europe living under the protection of our troops and dollars, Soviet leaps in missile and aerospace technology, and a shooting war in Korea.
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"Having Iran out there as a permanent bête noire, to blame for all the things that go wrong in the region, but without any of the dangers of a shooting war in their neighborhood — that is the ideal situation from the viewpoint of the Saudis, Emiratis and Israelis," said Paul Pillar, a Georgetown University professor and former C.I.A. official who studies the region.
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Refusing an illegal order When asked repeatedly if he -- as the top civilian in the Department of Defense -- would refuse to follow orders from the President to strike Iranian cultural heritage sites if such an order was given, Esper insisted that the United States would "follow the laws of armed conflict" if it came to a shooting war with Iran.
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In the South China Sea disputes, which have pitted China, Taiwan and four ASEAN member states — Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam — the group is expected to announce an agreement with Beijing on an initial negotiating draft of a so-called "code of conduct," a proposed set of regional norms and rules aimed at preventing the long-seething disputes from degenerating into a shooting war.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE just took the latest escalatory move in a trade war the United States and China are vigorously waging as either a proxy for a shooting war, or a run-up to one.
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"If [North Korean leader Kim Jong Un] decides that he wants to keep escalating and it ends up in a shooting war, it'll be the worst war I think we've seen since World War II, maybe even on a localized basis, even worse than anything we've seen in World World II." Despite global pressure, North Korea has been largely successful in developing and advancing its nuclear program.
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