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I don't understand the connection there
by zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
I don't understand the connection there
- TFortunato 3y agoI think they are stating the odds of the federal government actually allowing secession to go through would be...minimal at best, given these assets in the state.
- a_vanderbilt 3y agoBingo. 100-200 physics packages go through the facility annually, and if you think Uncle Sam got mad when someone touched his boats, try touching his nukes.
- a_gnostic 3y agoNothing a treaty won't solve. Access to West Berlin through the Iron Curtain was a thing.
- samus 3y agoWest Berlin was of minimal strategic importance though. It had highly symbolic value of course.
- buildsjets 3y agoFirst, we take Manhattan. Then, we take Berlin.
- philipswood 3y agoI too am sometimes guided by the beauty of our weapons. (Though to be honest: usually I'm just guided by the beauty of our tools...)
- galaxyLogic 3y agoAnd I don't like those drugs that keep you thin
- bloak 3y agoOne could also compare with Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome being in Kazakhstan.
- euroderf 3y agoThe NY Air National Guard has B-52s and tankers. Hopefully they would launch a disarming strike on any attempt by Texas to go nuclear.
- api 3y agoNobody serious thinks Texas secession is a good idea. It’s performative nonsense to rile up idiots. For an international analogy it’s along the same lines as Putin claiming the sale of Alaska was not valid.
- kurthr 3y agoEvery single piece of nuclear ordinance goes through that area. There are likely hundreds of near functional nuclear warheads under maintenance at any moment. They're a larger nuclear power than China, England, France, or any country other than Russia and the US. What they don't have are delivery systems.
- RexM 3y agoSpaceX launches out of Brownsville.
- hef19898 3y agoJust because SpaceX has rockets that go to space doesn't mean those rockets are ICBMs.
- khuey 3y agoAny rocket that can put a payload in orbit is an ICBM capable of launching at least that payload at another continent.
- hef19898 3y agoIf a continent is your target, sure...
- thereisnospork 3y agoI mean spaceX can drop a booster on a 20m wide barge without much fuss...
- hef19898 3y agoLand, not drop... And the boister is not coming in hot from a ballistic trajectory...
- avs733 3y ago"sure you can secede" "sweet! look at this nuclear weapons plant that's now ours" "sure, enjoy!" "HEY...you just left us the giant nuclear waste dump, where's the boom booms?"