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> war on the scale of the previous World Wars.

That will not happen again. It is a bygone era. Now it will either be country to country attacks (Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam) or full blown nuclear wipe-out. In either case protecting Cleveland won't make much of a difference.



People said the same thing after WWI. ...and they were right. WWII was fought differently from WWI.


With WWI or WWII era technology, it would take a great power months, even years to destroy the population of another. Now? Less than an hour.




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