• Pons_Aelius
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    11 months ago

    Ok but if Russia nukes DC, and the US doesn’t retaliate

    What are you talking about? There is no way under god’s green earth that would ever be true. The USA’s whole nuke program is all about beingable to retaliate, even if the contenintal USA has been wiped off the map.

    That is the whole point of the nuclear triad.

    This is more like a threat of nuclear exchange between France and Germany but without Flanders being mined to hell and back

    When East Germany existed, France’s policy was to nuke Germany to stop a the USSR if they did invade.

    • @captainlezbian
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      411 months ago

      I was referring to geography not geopolitics. No fucking shit america would end life on earth if someone launched a nuke near us. But Seoul doesn’t need be able to retaliate for North Korea to have very good incentive not to nuke it because it’s on their border

    • @shalafi
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      011 months ago

      Apparently OP has never heard of “boomers”. Russia could nuke every square inch of America flat and we’d still have subs splattered all over the oceans launching MIRVs.