TRUMP DOESN'T WANT TO KILL 10 MILLION PEOPLE IN AFGHANISTAN

Trump’s "wipe off" rant of July 23, 2019, is factually correct.
Lots of people live on sufferance.
It's never been a secret.

They are not protected by their army, or a mountain chain, or God.

The only things keeping them alive are
- political considerations they ignore,
- ethics they don't understand,
- and concerns over the environment.

There is no indication whatsoever that ANY of these is eternal.

This calculator, introduced in the early 1960s, was not classified to make sure the Soviets could buy it and know what the Americans knew, and that they knew it. Many people were concerned that knowledge asymmetries could cause a miscalculation and trigger a war.

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Don't conflate ethical considerations and factual statements.

It's quite dangerous.