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Hot take: unless U.S's foreign "blowback" reaches home, I don't think any internal problems, such as an attempt on Trump, would really affect the U.S.A (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Unless something more material like a whole continent turning anti-imperialist, if not socialist, and deciding collectively to nationalize the fruit and veg produce, and thus disrupts U.S's produce imports -

I don't think any internal problems in America would reach to a boiling point, as to end on a conclusive note

So what if it's a big deal to you, huh, America is the most armed-country, and has a lot of guns, yet no civil war(s) has occurred recently... it's just reactionary settler business as usual

Im America, nichts neues

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well the first time the US launched nukes, wasn't it the only nuclear-capable country? And that was before anyone had expectations about it or defenses in mind for it. The world is a lot different now in that way. If we look at how the US is doing in direct combat, it doesn't look good, from everything I've read/seen recently. I don't see why the US military's capability to unleash hell with nukes would be dramatically different; they'd be facing obliteration level counter military efforts, if they can even get their nukes to launch in a competent manner in the first place. Not to mention how much the US is dependent on trade, so nuking large parts of the world could tear apart the bread and circuses in short order.

I mean, I'm not saying "view it as insignificant and don't take it seriously," but like, I'm skeptical of how their on paper doctrine type stuff would actually translate to reality.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I don't think we should be correlating nuclear capability with conventional military power.

Yeah, the US military is on the decline. They have shit equipment, bad logistics, and not enough soldiers to carry out a global conflict.

But a nuclear exchange does not need any of these things, except equipment/technology, which is largely shrouded in secrecy, so we don't know what exactly their state is. We know that a bunch of their systems are automatic, and I wouldn't put it past them to be implementing AI for targeting.

They also have a bunch of politicians, officers and bureaucrats that seem to be trigger-happy.

At any rate, even if the US is unable to carry out an effective launch, even if 5-10% of their nukes successfully strike anything, we are talking about massive devastation.