>I think you've got the causal arrow wrong on this. My point was precisely that the US benefitted by geographical happenstance. Not sure how I got this wrong.

>I think you've got the causal arrow wrong on this. My point was precisely that the US benefitted by geographical happenstance. Not sure how I got this wrong. Regarding existential threats, nuclear proliferation is going to go through its worst period in human history. We are going to end this decade with a number of new nuclear bomb participants, and it's a profoundly obvious, inevitable outcome of the current US administration's myopic policies. And with that the probability that some American cities become glassed keeps spiralling ever upwards.