De skal have inddraget muligheden for at tvangsinddrive andre folks ressourcer. Fuldstændig grotesk, vanvittig brug af midler til eskalation af livsfarlig konflikt. Det er slemt nok at ukrainere og russere slår hinanden ihjel, vi skal ikke puste til gløderne og inddrage resten af kontinentet i endnu en altomfattende tragedie.
… “But the really scary thing that we do know, and this comes from the kinds of war games that take place in Washington all the time, is that because we now live in a world with 12,500 nuclear warheads, it doesn’t just end with one nuclear warhead being used on one city.”
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“And the war games in Washington suggest that 100% of the time, one nuclear weapons explosion, regardless of how it starts, an accident, a miscalculation, a deliberate use, it all ends in the full blown nuclear war.
And part of the reason why it all ends in the full blown nuclear war is that the kinds of structures we’ve built, the kinds of policies that we have on this, are such that you pretty much just follow the protocol, and the protocol is that you attack. If you, the United States has something called Launch Unwarning, and that means that if we think we’re being attacked, even though we haven’t absorbed an attack, even though we haven’t actually seen that a warhead has exploded in one of our cities, we launch an attack. And these decisions are made in a matter of minutes.”
“This is described really kind of with amazing clarity in the book by Annie Jacobs in Nuclear War Scenario, which describes exactly minute by minute how nuclear war starts and can start, and then what happens for the next 72 minutes, and then sort of these long-term consequences of nuclear war. And I can talk about some of them.
So 72 minutes, the entire war, that’s the duration of the war?
That’s the duration of a war between the United States and Russia. In Annie’s book, the scenario is that basically the US gets attacked by a kind of lone warhead coming from North Korea attacking Washington, DC. That’s an intercontinental ballistic missile, which we detect within seconds of the launch.
And then there’s a second, in her scenario, there’s a second warhead being exploded, launched from a submarine in the Pacific and exploding in Diablo Canyon, which is a nuclear power plant in Southern California. And in that scenario, the US then responds to…knows that it’s being attacked by North Korea in a matter of minutes, makes a decision to attack North Korea. I think the response is something like 82 nuclear warheads.
But the route that the warheads take from our ICBM silos in the Midwest, in the Dakotas and so on, the route goes over Russia. And in Annie’s book, the scenario is such that the US can’t communicate fast enough with the Russian leadership. And Russians now think they’re under attack because they’re detecting these warheads coming their way.
And so they launch an attack, a thousand nuclear warheads. And then the US responds in turn and attacks…”
Og vi har små Napoleoner der insisterer på at eskalere en krig, der ligegyldigt hvem der startede den, truer os alle.
Så nej, det er ikke en storartet ide at true et regime med 1000-vis af atomvåben med yderligere angreb. Det er en tragedie.
Regeringen bør omgående gå af, inden den bedriver yderligere skade.
