a) Short term political advantage.
If Obama thinks a war with Russia will unite a country so polarized as Pearl Harbor united America, he is nuts. That will not happen. It may keep attention away from Hillary, but it will also force the media to halt all talk of the BS sexual assault allegations against Trump. Hillary wants war, but Trump does not. The Dems will look like the war party and will be blamed for the catastrophe.
b) Reduced population.
That will not help Democrats at all. A Russian nuke over NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Seattle or any city in a blue state will instantly turn that state red.
c) War profits.
Most likely those who would be counting them would be vaporized.
d) Great excuse for more government controls on the people.
DC will get hit. What government?
Will Obama. who could not back up his talk of a "red-line" in Syria actually be willing to go to war with Russia?
0bama is nuts. Leftists have long wanted to reduce the population. The elitists who profit from war don’t live in D.C. There will always be a government and there’s no better way to institute one with total control of the people than to build one from the ashes of the last one.
Why would he care? In a few weeks he will be dumping it in the lap of a new president and if it's a Pubbie the left will do as they always do ... blame it all on him.
“A Russian nuke over NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Seattle or any city in a blue state will instantly turn that state red.”
I am having trouble seeing a downside to this.
Actually it will turn it black from carbonized buildings, plants and humans.