Borders? Congress: forgetaboutit
Constitution? Congress: forgetaboutit
Congress could not care. Lured by the scent of
LOVEINT, $$$$$$, Ambien, laws ONLY for others, and al Qaeda,
they simply DO NOT CARE.
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Likely primary targets of an attack: Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami
Largest concentration of liberal scum: Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami
That being said, don't do us any favors, thank you.
Once he's out of office and safely tucked away in his multi-million fortified retreat in Hawaii, the US will be nuked and taken over. The gay military will be powerless to do anything, and half of America will be so fat and lazy they won't care.
Obama will probably become the Commissar of North America after all the dust settles, operating out of the new capital in HI.
It’s like Obama surrendered on the Coldwar that Reagan won.
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Practically speaking, Russia needed to fire missiles to make sure their missiles actually work. While missiles are “high tech”, they go through incredible stresses enroute, and seemingly insignificant problems can destroy them. The US used to test fire missiles at frequent intervals.
“Overkill”, having multiple missiles aimed at the same target, was not, as misunderstood, so as to be able to “over-destroy” their target, but was based on the idea that most missiles would never reach their target.
There are losses just getting out of the silo. Losses just after leaving the silo. Inertial losses where in the initial boost it goes off course or starts to twirl. Losses at the second stage. Finally, at altitude, there is some peace and quiet right about when missile defenses engage. Then, losses in the descent, with lots of air friction. Then there is missing the target, and finally, the bomb doesn’t explode properly because *it* is flawed, or perhaps damaged by vibration and heat.
Even for very good quality US missiles, overkill is very high.
As far as the Chinese, they are more of a concern, in that to successfully conquer Taiwan, they need to severely cripple the US Pacific fleet. The way to do this is less to attack the fleet itself, than to attack the only two deep water ports capable of repair, refueling, and rearming them. This means Bremerton, Washington and San Diego.
While in addition, they have published white papers from their strategists that unconventional attacks to other parts of the US would be needed as well, so that the US was both distracted and unable to respond before China had landed huge numbers of soldiers on Taiwan, and intermingled them with the Taiwanese, then declare that any future acts by the US Navy amount to unprovoked aggression against China, since the US has technically agreed to the reunification of the two.
However, this does mean that the attacks on the two ports have to be done in such a way that China can claim “plausible deniability.”
Of course, the flip side of this coin is called the Office of Naval Research (ONR). A truly amazing military research and development organization, it is their job to design naval weapons 50 or 100 years in the future as well as for right now.
So the brilliant Cold War scheme of using ballistic missile submarines may have some flaws, like the USN releasing The Kraken, Monster X, and Cthulhu to eat their submarines before they can launch, as it were. Or a reasonable high explosive facsimile thereof.
Quiz. Q #1: Which American “Rock Star” President gave the chicoms the ICBM guidance technology that gave them a 20 plus leap ahead in the accurate targeting of the United States?
Hint: Wife was Sec. of State made famous by uttering “What difference does it make”.
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Why the new-found willingness to acquiesce in new debt?
Credible sources here in Washington have shared a chilling back-story that took place involving the President and congressional leaders of both parties as the clock ticked down to the Treasury running out of cash earlier last month. It seems that more than one creditor nation, led by the Chinese, indirectly telegraphed a willingness to take very draconian measures in response to a ‘debt default’ – apparently even if coupon payments were made on outstanding debt owed to them. Those measures were set to go way beyond being financial, and were said to be credible in nature.
At least one senior Republican scoffed at the threat, but relented when briefed by (at least nominally) non-political figures in the national security community. That explains why, in part, the whole stand-off ended with a whimper and not a bang.
The implication? The country is far deeper down the rabbit hole of debt than most fathom. The current paradigm has moved one step closer to the end game. We are no longer masters of our own fate.
From: Another Debt Showdown coming in Washington next year? Don’t bet on it.
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This kind of talk would never take place if we had a real POTUS in charge.
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