Well, if Putin just calls Obama and threatens to do anything Obama will draw a red line, issue and E.O. play golf blame Bush have a committee look into it. But I have two ways of looking at this. Secular vs. Christian. Secular, history shows all empires have gone pretty much the same way and the USA is falling right in line. I believe post WW II was our golden years up until the 1960's. In my faith looking at history Israel is the clock G-d is using to reveal His plan and it is falling right into place. Now for the non-Christian my view is as foolish as waiting for Mr. Spock to beam down in front of me. Reading the Book of Daniel, Amos, Joel and the Books of the New Testament Israel has come home. I believe if the USA was as big and bad as we once were, say old USSR days with a real leader with a big set we would have MAD and Putin, Chicoms and the world would not dare attack Israel. The USA is not even mentioned in that old Book, the Holy Bible but the other world players are. EMP and a few well place Nukes and we are done for. I would guess if an EMP (I don't know much about EMP) could be localized over a battle group of a CVN it would take all the ships out. I would further guess the only ships that could operate would be the very old WW II class with out modern electronics and of course not one air plane or tank would work. In a secular view the death rates in modern cities would be very high, the rural areas would have to brace themselves and some have been prepping for this since the 1960's with the Civil Defense plans to settle people from large cities to areas around them that might be safe, some areas that I know of had other plans to be safe. Kurt Saxon had a little short story about Killer Caravans that is a good read. Think of this. With the number of alcoholics, drug addicts (Legal and Illegal) in every city or town the first three days would not be too bad, with in two weeks a lot of bad things will begin to occur. No 911 for grandma if she has chest pains, no insulin for diabetics, . . . . . . . good stuff huh. Another short novel I have is the 1950's is "Alas, Babylon", a good read. If we have no nuke attack, no EMP we are going to be at each other either way with the national debt, baby boomers and the like we cant keep spending like this. This Ponzi type economy can not stand this. The new undocumented democrats we have allowed into this country feeding and breeding are a drain on us . . ... . did I make my point yet?
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