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Lumifer comments on [POLITICS] Jihadism and a new kind of existential threat - Less Wrong Discussion

-5 Post author: MrMind 25 March 2015 09:37AM

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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 26 March 2015 06:35:47AM 1 point [-]

In Moscow, Tatar women have six children and Chechen and Ingush women have ten on average.

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Look at the Ukraine - part of the population identified as Ukrainian, part as Russian, and it lead to a civil war. That was just nationality, this is nationality and religion and ethnicity. Is there going to be a civil war in the world's most heavly-armed nuclear state? Will they start sneaking suitcase nukes out?

Comment author: Lumifer 26 March 2015 03:22:44PM 0 points [-]

Look at the Ukraine - part of the population identified as Ukrainian, part as Russian, and it lead to a civil war.

I agree with Viliam_Bur:

Look at the Ukraine -- Putin wants a small victorious war, so little green men go into Ukraine and start a "civil" war.