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To: Natufian
If only the outcome of wars could be determined by glancing at military expenditures... why, we'd have been done with that whole Afghanistan thing in five minutes and Vietnam in two weeks. And Germany won WWI. It's so simple!

" ...the issue of nuclear weapons makes all scenarios messy.

No. It's the deciding factor. It's the reason such a ludicrous scenario will never play out because Israel could credibly threaten the existence of London, Paris and Berlin.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!

25 posted on 12/27/2013 8:51:31 AM PST by Flag_This (Liberalism: Kills countries dead.)
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To: Flag_This

As an example of moving the goalposts, your post is a good one.

Your original post talked about Israel ‘kicking the snot’ out of 3 EU countries, in this case the UK, France and Germany. I’ve given you one metric of why that is hogwash (an absurd differential in military spending) but you didn’t like that one. I suppose all the others such as industrial capacity, GDP, population wont please you either.

Maybe it would be more useful if you could describe how, if they decided to go toe to toe, Israel would kick the said snot out of them. If ypu’re going to rest your case on the possesion of nuclear weapons it might have been better to write originally that Isreal could commit suicide by nuking any 3 EU countries.

Happy kwanzaaa!


26 posted on 12/27/2013 9:10:48 AM PST by Natufian (t)
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