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Vote Blue No Matter Who so that Bad Man doesn't get into office and launch the nukes!
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What do you mean the Democrats are the ones planning to launch the nukes?!?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn00e422yr2o
Doesn't change my answer, except that Putin/[insert dictator of choice here] shouldn't be planning our destruction either, because no one should.
Also see this comment. Tl;dr: I literally don't care about governments' rights to defend themselves from each other when, in any case, it will be the rest of life on Earth that pays the price.
This is a response, and the only rational one.
Honestly though, our clandestine services would save a lot of lives by simply removing the problem from the top.