Posted on 10/27/2016 8:45:44 AM PDT by Strategy
Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia.
Jacksonville, FL.
Stuff like that.
Gee, thanks
Been going back and forth with a liberal on facebook and they mentioned an article that stated the UN now believes that from 2014 to 2015 Assad used chemical weapons on its people. I guess that is what is behind our increasing war stance? My question is whom was Assad targeting with those weapons. Legitimate rebels, or ISIS backed or ISIS friendly rebels?
Read: "One Second After"
/sarc
Annapolis and West Point, too!
Maybe the Russians get tagged particularly hard, and fire a nuclear-tipped Sunburn missile (or several) at a carrier to retaliate. Then instantly 7,000 sailors are vaporized.
And then they immediately announce any nuclear attack on Russian soil, whether or not it targets civilian or military would result in an immediate nuclear strike on a major US city.
Then the question is, what does the US do in return?”
An attack on one of our carriers would most likely result initially in a measured attack on the Russian carrier, Admiral Kuznetzov. Then it would be up to the Russians to decide whether escalation is in their self-interest. They would not be able to strike first without expecting at least a tit-for-tat retaliatory strike.
He made the connection in the other direction, and the crowd started shouting some in-ter-jec-tions!
The thing is, the Russians have plenty of carriers to choose from after that, and plenty of overseas airbases.
The US would run out of targets that aren’t in Russia pretty quickly.
I don’t think the Russians would escalate after our initial retaliation. They are not suicidal. But we do know where all of their submarines are ...
If Batman and Superman got in a fight, If Hillary found God,..
Nothing that was posted changed my mind or even gave me new information I didn’t already have. My thresh-hold for wanting to provoke a nuclear war is probably different from some neo-cons. We knew this going in, and we know it coming out.
Well, Obola would immediately apologize.
But Hillary would convene a focus group and decide 24 hours later. Then deny and delay their decision until the polls changed.
“Other than the bases around Norfolk”
You kidding? Newport News is massively ‘blue’.
I include Norfolk just as we did when I was in the Navy: as the set of bases from Little Creek and air base and NAS and the Norfolk Shipyard over in Portsmouth and the ammo depot and stores yards and Newport News and its side yards.
But downtown Norfolk? Blue.
Chesapeake?
Sure, I do not want a nuke to destroy NYC or Washington DC or Philly or Chicago or even Detroit or NJ. We might lose a 1000 conservative voters. /sarchasm
Granted, many of the "moderate" rebels are also batshit crazy (by our standards), but that's life in Islamic middle eastern countries unfortunately.
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