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The US is a fairly aggressive power that gets involved in a lot of overseas wars. If you backcast the same logic to WWII; the US could have had a nuclear shield
by roenxi 3y ago
The US is a fairly aggressive power that gets involved in a lot of overseas wars. If you backcast the same logic to WWII; the US could have had a nuclear shield then and been perfectly safe from invasion, but what it actually wanted was the ability to get involved in Europe and the Pacific.
Having an impenetrable defence is nice, but the US hasn't fought a defensive war in ... I don't know how long. Maybe a century for all I care.
- somenameforme 3y agoBut if you send us back with nukes, you'd have to do so for everybody else as well. And in such a scenario WW2 would never have happened, and WW1 damn sure wouldn't have happened. A Bosnian Serb assassinates an Astro-Hungarian royal and Brits end up killing Germans over it? The whole world needed a nice ice cold shower there, and the mere existence of nukes is that perpetual cold shower.
- hef19898 3y agoThe US are perfectly shielded from invasion by two oceans so. Canada is an ally, as is Mexico (less close, but still). And neither would be able to launch an invasion with any chance of success anyway (in reality, movies are different).