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Alas with modern warfare you don't need 100k people in order to curb-stomp the unmilitarized competition. I am certain the US for instance could easily make nu

Alas with modern warfare you don't need 100k people in order to curb-stomp the unmilitarized competition. I am certain the US for instance could easily make nukes with no other country knowing about it, and that's with all the people in the US who would scream that from the rooftops if they knew. Or you could get even more creative: make a virus in a lab, develop a vaccine / cure, vaccinate your population, release the virus. We don't even know if COVID-19 came from a Wuhan lab and even if it did it seems incredibly unlikely it was developed as a weapon. Imagine the secrecy that would be involved by a country doing so deliberately. Between nukes / bioweapons / chemical weapons / drones / etc, a country could definitely achieve a huge edge before any other country knew what was happening. It's not 1920 anymore.

groby_b 5y ago
You don't "easily make nukes". They require an incredibly large industrial infrastructure to support them. And it's worth pointing out that bioweapons are not a problem that can be fixed with a standing army. (Again, not touching the fact that a BSL4 lab specializing in weaponized agents is not something that just escapes notice). And I'm terribly sorry, but the idea that you can vaccinate an entire population without anybody noticing is just flat out ridiculous.
- fastball 5y ago
  > You don't "easily make nukes". I didn't say anyone can, I said the US can. Even if the US "demilitarized", we could definitely still easily make nukes. > And it's worth pointing out that bioweapons are not a problem that can be fixed with a standing army. I never said standing army, I was clear about using demilitarized/militarized. You could use cyber security as another example – a country with a standing army is of course not going to help against a cyber offensive. However a country with cyber defenses... > but the idea that you can vaccinate an entire population without anybody noticing is just flat out ridiculous. The US vaccinates its population against the flu every year.

groby_b 5y ago

You don't "easily make nukes". They require an incredibly large industrial infrastructure to support them. And it's worth pointing out that bioweapons are not a problem that can be fixed with a standing army. (Again, not touching the fact that a BSL4 lab specializing in weaponized agents is not something that just escapes notice). And I'm terribly sorry, but the idea that you can vaccinate an entire population without anybody noticing is just flat out ridiculous.

fastball 5y ago
> You don't "easily make nukes". I didn't say anyone can, I said the US can. Even if the US "demilitarized", we could definitely still easily make nukes. > And it's worth pointing out that bioweapons are not a problem that can be fixed with a standing army. I never said standing army, I was clear about using demilitarized/militarized. You could use cyber security as another example – a country with a standing army is of course not going to help against a cyber offensive. However a country with cyber defenses... > but the idea that you can vaccinate an entire population without anybody noticing is just flat out ridiculous. The US vaccinates its population against the flu every year.