Posted on 09/18/2020 2:36:13 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
I don’t see a nuclear war with either Biden or Kam Ho in the WH.
We wouldn’t engage, we’d just take all the hits if that happened. Might even happen that same way with Trump in charge, since over half the military brass is in with the deep state swamp.
Of course not. They would immediately capitulate. They hate America.
The war mongerHarris administration will start a war, just like all administrations before Donald Trump.
Christ! Not this Sh*t again!
We went through all of this in the 60’, 70’s, 80’s and on and on. Doomsday clocks would advance whenever a Republican/conservative was elected to any office anywhere in the world.
I just want to gag with this really stupid speculations
Basic Communist propaganda.
Don't fight, give up. We have already won. Better red than dead.
All the same message.
LOL!
This will nag you to your dying day. You live in the nuclear age.
No need to have a meltdown.
The problem is the psycho mentality going around that nuclear powers can safely have conventional wars. Our generals truly believe they can have conventional attacks on Russians and they’ll just accept it. The Chinese think they can maybe get away with shooting at US ships and we will just shrug and accept a defeat.
In the original cold war it was pretty much understood that direct open combat between nuclear armed superpowers would always go nuclear.
Lot’s of idiots out there.
>>”Imagine that China does deploy nuclear-armed DF-26s, and we think they are conventional and try and hunt down and attack these missiles. If we’re successful, we’ve inadvertently destroyed nuclear weapons, which from a Chinese perspective is extremely escalatory.”
So, China tries to nuke us but it’s “escalatory” if we try to defeat the missles.... Shades of Mad Maxine there...
IF we had a war with China, it would be fought with bags of money under the table, and when we lost the war, the press would not cover it and no one would notice.
Then when someone named Trump came along and upset the post-war applecart, their American puppets would be tasked with getting rid of him by any means necessary.
Define winning a nuclear war.
We’ve been lied to by anti-defense interests for generations about the effects of nuclear weapons attacks. It would be quite survivable and with good health for most. Iodine-131 decays out very quickly but is the most dangerous isotope. Cesium is much longer lasting but not dangerous unless ingested. If ingested (say, by fish or other animals), it decays out much more quickly. Rains would wash cesium down into low spots and into the ground fairly soon in most places (with enough rainfall).
The Massive Open-Air Burst ordnance, abbreviated as MOAB, and popularly known as “Mother of All Bombs” is a powerful anti-personnel weapon, which ban cause concussive damage which approaches that of a small tactical nuclear weapon, and no radioactive residue.
Surprisingly inexpensive to assemble ($16 million), it can be delivered by a cargo plane, and set to detonate at approximately 100 feet above ground level, the force of the burst has been described as a “daisy cutter”, leveling most structures within about a mile of the burst.
And it isn’t even the biggest baddest thing out there any more.
No, it’s actually a reality between nuclear powers. If you do a nuclear attack, even by surprise, even first, you are guaranteed a nasty response from what you don’t get. And even if say only one Russian sub survived and we got hit with 20 to 50 warheads... that would be an unparalleled disaster for our nation.
To everyone except Buck Turgidson.
The “do not play” message was also from us to them. There is pretty much no realistic scenario where you can wage a nuclear war and emerge anywhere near a condition close to how you started it.
Nuclear war would be far more likely with Democrats in office. They tend to put off needed conventional actions, which lack of action is sometimes likely to get a country into a nuclear exchange situation (boxed in, out of options).
High intensity conventional wars were caused exactly by the inhibitions of “progressive” presidents to adequate prepare and expand military forces in advance (see Wilson, Roosevelt).
I’d speculate there was a window in the 50s and maybe early 60s where we could have nuked the Ruskies and won. We had the delivery systems and a superiority in warheads.
Preventing delivery of theirs while ensuring the delivery of our own
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