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It certainly feels like we are headed to an armed confrontation with a state armed with nuclear weapons. I doubt we will truly fight over Taiwan and the USA is
by daft_pink 3y ago
It certainly feels like we are headed to an armed confrontation with a state armed with nuclear weapons. I doubt we will truly fight over Taiwan and the USA is bluffing and North Korea isn’t going to start a fight, but I think Iran or Russia or Russian proxies could easily devolve into all out war.
- euroderf 3y agoIn the US, JCS chief Milley and some other guy (SecDef?) made a deal between them - and informed underlings - that if Trump reaches for nukes, nothing is released without the okay of one of them. I wonder if there is a similar firewall of sanity between Putin and nukes. I mean, at some point he's goin' down. Isn't he?
- kcplate 3y agoIronically he was probably the least likely of the last 6-7 presidents of resorting to nukes. Trump is a lot of awful things but you can’t really say he is a warmonger. If anything, the use of nukes would undermine his reputation as a deal maker. His ego would never survive the obvious dealmaking failure that the use of nukes would mean.