and the longer the world has nuclear arms statistically the chance of it happening increases
it’s like our little version of the great filter
you should really stop thinking of it as a “concept”
and you should imagine what the current state of U.S. - Sino relations would look like currently without them lol
at least now the nationalist super powers are largely reduced to peripheral economic / cyber warfare instead of throwing bodies at each other
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Hmm, 1 post the Cold War. Definitely a good reason to keep the rest of the world without nukes subservient to the part of the world with them
Just an observation.
Murphy's law and all.
I do agree that the deterrent is working.
And yes, if the Ukraine still had nukes then Russia would've left them alone.
Bet police wouldn’t be killing my black homies if we was all packing nukes in our wastebands
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This is the future anarchists want
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Reminds me of a sci-fi novel I read years ago.
Able Archer was Reagan at his best lol
that’s great until we all die when they actually get used
it’s fine to acknowledge the benefits of nuclearization but to ignore the risks is ignorant and bad faith
also China can’t wage a land war against the USA because the US has such a massive air superiority advantage, China’s airforce is a joke.
They would not be “throwing bodies at each other” without nukes, China would get smashed.
i would argue that nukes are the only reason Russia was able to annex crimea and the only reason China can do what they do in the South China sea
same with all the tech/cold war bullshit
threat of MAD lets them be pushy and aggressive as fuck, which they both are
I'm not ignoring the risks.
Pandora's box was opened long ago and the reality is we can't hit the undo button.
I agree with @electrowizard in the sense that it's bullshit that this new playing field has been created where nuclear powers have a license to maim non-nuclear powers with impunity.
And while I would like to see that advantage neutralized, I also find the thought of theocracies wielding these things perturbing.
That, and unstable governments holding nukes is the big problem.
I'm not sure I follow, how does MAD enable nuclear powers to push around non-nuclear powers? It's specifically the lack of MAD in these scenarios that allows this behavior.
On the contrary it's also hypocritical for the United States (the only country to deploy nuclear weapons against innocent people) is somehow fit to act as the moral authority regarding who gets to have them.
Just finished watching this again.
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I'm having flashbacks of a long forgotten battlefield involving yns groundwar memes.
Many of those were also directed at jing