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Originally Posted by Dollarmansteve
The people who actually make the plans for these things are thorough in their investigations. For example, the situation in Iraq was not unforseen by someone, but the powers that be made their decision anyway - and ol' georgy boy is paying a price.
In the same way, all possible outcomes will be researched exhaustively, and one of the scenarios will be a worst case scenario where russie and china go all ape shit and do something stupid.
There is risk inherent in any decision. What is most dangerous is the short timelines that politicians deal with, they over-weight the short term and under-weight the long term consequences since their 'lives' are short. The world would be better off if economists made decisions.. and besides, economists do it with models.
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Worst case scenario being World War 3, I very much doubt that would happen (China and Russia getting fully involved) Russia have plenty of their own oil, so I suppose China would be more upset of the two considering that they need incredible amounts of energy and have massive oil deals with Iran.
Now will they be upset enough at losing 100's of billions of dollars to confront America, nah I don't see it . That would seem a rather foolish move at this point in time.