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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[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Even if it were true (which it isn't), I think the US would indeed fund the literal Nazi's to get rid of Russians for a low price, because it's an easy geopolitical move. Regardless of whether the Ukrainians are literal angels, it's beneficial to interfere for many reasons.

If Putin wants to potentially change the equation, he has to launch nukes, but that's still assuming any of them will hit their targets. Who can know for sure that a space laser isn't already in place to eliminate such threats? The world's super power only had 90 years to prepare for global thermonuclear war. Do you really want to gamble nobody figured out a way to neutralize nukes?

[–]rundown9 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Do you really want to gamble nobody figured out a way to neutralize nukes?

Do you?

It only takes a few, a few capitol cities to be annihilated, and world society would collapse.

Nuclear winter would collapse crops, food riots would happen everywhere.

Fucking "lasers"? Think tank morons have no business being near power, that the human race has allowed these idiots to be in charge perhaps mean we're not even meant to survive as a species.

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do you?

I don't know. Either I am the smartest man on the planet, because I did figure out how to beat nukes or the US already figured out the same 50 years ago. Do you think I am the smartest man on the planet? I don't think you do.

Fucking "lasers"?

I am not saying there are lasers, but there could be all kinds of mechanisms. Again, they had 90 years to figure out a solution to what is literally the most valuable problem worth solving. Do you really think nobody ever gave the order to figure out a solution? If so, it would be the most irresponsible policy ever and frankly, if the world is that stupid, perhaps extinction wouldn't be such a bad idea.

[–]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.