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> Ok, they reveal them. What is next? Nukes are not magic. I'd wager that if you're amassing forces to conduct an invasion and midway through you discovered yo
by simplotek 4y ago
> Ok, they reveal them. What is next? Nukes are not magic.
I'd wager that if you're amassing forces to conduct an invasion and midway through you discovered your target has nukes pointed at you, the very least you'd do is rethink your strategy and put a pause on operations.
- krisoft 4y agoFrom here on I will call this tactic “stopping a charging rhino with a bubble blower”. It does not have a credible chance of hurting the rhino. It won’t stop the rhino directly, but maybe it confuses the rhino? And maybe the confused rhino stops, instead of stomping on the cause of confusion?
- simplotek 4y ago> It does not have a credible chance of hurting the rhino. I don't follow. What exactly leads you to believe that lobbing nukes at an invasion force's staging area and/or neighboring military bases "does not have a credible chance of hurting" the invader?
- krisoft 4y agoI see your point. Obviously it would hurt the troops the nuke explode over. Then the Chinese send in the next group. Or pepper your cities with their ICBMs. Or both. I hope you will believe me without proper citations that they just have a lot of troops.[1] And there is no reason to think they would need to bunch them up. How many smuggled in nukes are we imagining here? 1: this is the orbat of the Chinese rocket forces from 2020 https://www.aboyandhis.blog/post/mapping-the-people-s-liberation-army-rocket-force https://www.aboyandhis.blog/post/mapping-the-people-s-libera...