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In real life, people sometimes commit suicide in what's called "suicide by cop", they attack police so the police kill them. The idea that we or China can't ha
by staticman2 5y ago
In real life, people sometimes commit suicide in what's called "suicide by cop", they attack police so the police kill them.
The idea that we or China can't have a commander in chief who commits suicide by war, or otherwise behaves irresponsibly and takes the rest of us with them, strikes me as a tad optimistic.
- vkou 5y agoYou could say the same for the US. What checks and balances are going to protect you from a mentally unstable, delusional president who lost an election months ago, is about to be removed from power, and just this morning decided to play a game of nuclear football? What evidence do you have that similar checks do not exist in China? It's also worth mentioning that any nuclear submarine commander in the UK can, at any time, order the launch of their submarine's ICBMs. They do not physically require any authentication from Westminster to launch. I'm assuming the same is the case for US, and Russian submarines.
- staticman2 5y agoYou misunderstand me, I didn't say a U.S. president was less likely to kill us all.