The most bizarre and surreal event in the last decade of US politics - and it's obviously a hefty competition -- is watching US liberals who see NAZIS and HITLER under every MAGA hat finally encounter real-deal Nazis in Ukraine, and they are eager to arm, fund and revere them.

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[–]rundown9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Russia has thousands of nuclear weapons, but let's just say 500 are actually ready to fire.

Let's also say 250 of those fail to launch for whatever reason, fair enough.

Let's say western anti-missle tech can stop 50% of those, wishful thinking even for the Rand corp.

Even if 50% of those miss completely into the ocean, 30, maybe 40 actually hit targets - what would the world look like the next day? week? month? It's a fools bet either way - unless of course they want to die, maybe they do.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your analysis is based on what other people have said; mine is based on original ideas. Nuclear weapons are obsolete if you know what I know. In fact, there are multiple ways in which nuclear weapons could be rendered inert, now that I think about it. I just figured out another method, which exploits a weakness in all such weapons. It would allow let's say an alien invasion force to destroy all weapons in milliseconds globally. Nobody would ever know what hit them.

I think war is an activity for underdeveloped species. The science fiction depiction of war with "star ships" as such will never happen, well assuming they are able to think of what I did.