I really don't know at this point. My initial reaction is that this is merely fear-mongering. But after a bit of thought, this also looks like the beginnings of the kind of paranoia one would expect coming from a military-industrial complex once it's lost sight of the conventional altogether.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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