• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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    2010 months ago

    I recall reading how the US has nuked primed to hit the Global South in case of a nuclear war just so that they don’t make it.

    • Hexboare [they/them]
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      710 months ago

      I don’t think they’d have enough, China and Russia are very large and globally there are at least 10,000 cities (with at least 50,000 inhabitants at an average population density of 1,500 people per square kilometer)

    • weeen [any, any]
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      10 months ago

      Yeah wasn’t it something like, they want the US to be the center of rebuilt civilisation, so they’d nuke everything else, including their allies…

      • It wouldn’t surprise me if this were in fact true, but if you or @[email protected] can point me to where you saw this, I would really appreciate being able to read about it. Regardless of what heinous crimes against humanity and all life on earth that the US would actually perpetrate in a large scale nuclear war scenario, I was under the impression that their nuclear posture and targeting strategies are “highly classified” and even though they don’t have any NFU policy, they still at least pretend it’s about deterrence.

        • AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]
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          310 months ago

          Trying to find articles on this on Yandex and DuckDuckGo and not finding anything although my search terms are probably subpar. Some stuff about how it’d only take 100 nukes to destroy almost all human civilization though.

        • weeen [any, any]
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          710 months ago

          It was an article someone posted in a comment on here, It’ll be somewhere in my saved so I’ll try to find it.

          • Pili [any, any]
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            310 months ago

            In the meantime I’ll just blindly believe it because it sounds like something that they would do.

            • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
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              110 months ago

              Devil’s advocate: Some military plans might be more of a thought experiment or training exercise or black swan event prepping than a serious we totally gonna do this. For example, there are plans to invade Canada, plans for zombie invasions, etc…

              Now to unadvocate for the devil, the “Zombie” plan can be recycled to apply for reacting to a US citizen led communist revolution, or mass rioting against Imperial interests, the “Nuke everyone but the US” plan might be useful if the US suddenly finds itself to be the last non-socialist country, etc…

      • Pentacat [he/him]
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        1210 months ago

        All of us who are saying WTF have seriously underestimated American depravity.