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But then something happened asymmetrically. A new weapon came to the forefront that promised to be more devastating than nuclear war when used in large quantities, and which could be used through the back door. It was of a type that wouldn't have to be thrown at an opponent directly. It became sufficient that it be used nearby. Nor would its killing effect even end, as in traditional warfare when the war ends. The killing effect of this weapon is of a type that continues forever. No defenses can be erected against it. No bunkers can be built that can shield a people from its effect, nor is there a place on earth, no matter how distant, where people would be safe from it.
With the new weapon now in place in large numbers the ancient goal of the Western Empire to defeat Russia and China for all times to come has become achievable. A new kind of war is on the table. A hidden war has been set up to begin that is about to be staged in the shadow a mockup war. The age of total asymmetric warfare has begun.
America's open threat is against North Korea is getting louder, but the real target is China that has set up for a hidden attack through the 'backdoor.' China has no defense against the new asymmetric weapon, especially when it is not openly attacked. Nor does China have the military resources to prevent the cover-up war by which it would become mortally endangered.
The same can be said about America's boisterous threats against Iran, for which the real target is Russia. Russia will have to defend itself against a deadly attack that won't be staged on its territory, but outside of Russia in a different country, for which Iran has been chosen. Both China and Russia are in this position now. They find themselves forced to respond to the most deadly threats they ever had to face. This can only be done asymmetrically. The old symmetric balance of power in the world is history. It appears that both Russia and China are determined to respond in this manner through the backdoor to save their existence.
The new weapon that threw the world's strategic balance out of the window is the depleted-uranium bomb, the DU bomb as it is being called. The weapon is clouded with a different kind of asymmetric warfare. The weapon is not shielded in concrete bunkers like the big ICBMs had been, but is instead shielded with far-flung misinformation campaigns that make the weapon appear small. The DU bomb is described to be totally harmless, according the U.S. military that has deployed it. The evidence, as one might expect in asymmetric warfare, is to the contrary. Even the name of the weapon is a deception. The weapon is paraded as a "depleted uranium bomb," to make people feel save, while there is nothing depleted about it. It is depleted only of a specific isotope that is essential for making nuclear reactor fuel and nuclear bombs, a tiny portion of a half a percent. The remaining 99.5% is still uranium, undiluted, a powerful emitter of alpha radiation with a half-life of 4.5 billion years that keeps on killing people forever when it becomes a part of the air and the general environment.
The DU bomb itself was initially preceded by DU munitions that are physically ideally suited for penetrating the steel armor of tanks in anti-tank warfare. Uranium is heavy, dense, and when it impacts a tank with high speeds, 'flows' the steel of the armor like a hot knife through butter. And it is truly a hot knife. The impact compression heats the uranium. At high temperatures uranium becomes extremely flammable. It burns with an intense fire exceeding 5000 degrees Celsius. In one case a few children who had stood nearby when a tank was hit with DU munitions, had their clothes burnt off instantly, and also their skin. The rest becomes indescribable. The uranium itself vaporizes in these extreme fires. It fractures into tiny uranium oxide fragments, half of which are smaller than the wavelengths of light, and a third, many times smaller than that in the order of one-tenths of a micron. Being so incredibly small the particles become invisible. They disperse into the air like a gas would and become transported with the winds across large distances, eventually globally, where they become a part of the environment and the air that all people breathe.
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