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Volaris

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16. Yeah thatd be about the worst thing; however...

Reply to Skraxx (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 8, 2021, 10:39 PM

Jan 2021

It would come with (eventually) the utter destruction of what passes for his government at the will of the american majority, and hes smarter than that.

If he wanted something with immediate effect, but not immediate retaliation, hed do something like try crash the power grid for New York or Boston...chaos, but would not necessarily constitute a traditional act of war, and he can deny it was his govt for a bit.

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