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Fox News reports that Donald Trump may consider using nuclear weapons to eliminate Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility
The U.S. military has reservations regarding the success of using a bunker-buster bomb, a non nuclear weapon, to eliminate Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility, buried deep in a mountain. Two defense officials were reportedly briefed that only a tactical nuclear weapon could reach the facility.
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Trump says: “nothing is off the table”
Fox News: Perfect Clickbait lets claim considering nukes
The New Republic for some reason: Yes lets repost fox news clickbait
Sure but by definition if nothing is off the table how does that not include nuclear weapons?
God damn female presidents am I right? Now nukes are being bandied about in the midst of the VP getting into Twitter fights with randoms about trans people during national security meetings. I can’t believe wait what? Oh. It’s the grown ass men with impulse control and emotional problems. I was told that women would get us into WWIII.
Our last election just showed that by and large, uneducated white men and the elderly would rather get raped by an old white man than helped by a young black woman
I agree with the sentiment but the word young is doing a lot of work here, Kamala is 60 years old …
She young at heart compared to Trump who is, by definition, a grouchy old fuck.
Well this is true, she’s definitely not an elderly dementia afflicted ghoul.
Yet compared to Trump she seems like a fresh spring onion
The Peter Pan Party doing what boys that never grew up do best.
👏👏👏
Same as Iraq. The US sells the poison and snake oil to cure it.
Also Afghanistan
Trump really wants to do a nuke on something. That would secure some kind of place for him in history, I’m sure.
Bombing Japan is a big dark spot on our history. As was our treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Basically everyone agrees on that.
We retconned history to say dropping the big bombs would have averted many more casualties, and maybe that’s true, but really a.) who knows and b.) big difference between civilian casualties and military casualties.
MAGAts don’t feel remorse for what we did to Japan. I used to work with one who used the interment camps to justify migrants being separated from their children and thrown in cages. His logic was that “people weren’t up in arms about it then, why do they care about it now?”
The people who vote for trump think that the bomb was just a great technological achievement, and never learned about the Japanese internment camps.
Not that anyone will be around to learn about it…
Just an fyi, last time he really wanted to use a nuke. No one would let him so they convinced him to use a MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs) instead.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-drops-the-mother-of-all-bombs-on-afghanistan
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Why the hell is Syracuse a civilian target? There’s nothing there anymore.
I can’t say, not my map, I dunno anything about Syracuse beyond the wiki page.
Which does say its over half a million people in the metro area… Rapid City, South Dakota only has under a 100k, and it gets a nuke.
Could be as simple as: Its got enough people, its a transit crossroads, its far away enough from other larger metros that it gets its own miniature sun, because the one(s) hitting NYC won’t reach that far.
Maine is looking really good, but would you really want to survive this shit?
The odds of a ICBM hitting are low if it comes via air, we’d see it coming and be able to intercept in many cases. It’s the land based attacks, like smuggling a dirty bomb in or chemical weapons, that I worry about more.
I have some very bad news for you about our success intercepting missiles. We very much do not have a reliable defence against missiles. We regularly fail interception tests.
Yeah I was gonna say this, I have no idea why or how it came to be that people think an ICBM MIRV can be realistically or reliably intercepted.
Some of them?
Maybe, yeah, but… most of them? Hell no.
EDIT: Oh, that commenter said they were stoned when they wrote that. I… guess that is an explanations of sorts.
Yeah good luck intercepting a MIRV
The odds of a ICBM hitting are low if it comes via air…
I’m curious to see what other ways you think an ICBM is going to get to the target.
lol yeah I could’ve phrased that better, kinda stoned.
Fair enough. It gave me a laugh and I had to ask.
Well since it’s an inter continental ballistic missile then obviously it could burrow underground as well. Duhhhhh.
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I actually no longer trust that to be true with how many systems and programs were gutted. I suspect we probably dismantled our early warning systems.
If thats not the case, I still question whether or not this administration would let a blue state get hit when they could prevent it just out of spite.
Me personally?
Yes.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
As a life long new jersey citizen I’m glad someone finally finds us important.
Hey, when we rebuild society in 200 years, we can just formally declare the entire state, every square foot of it, to be a superfund site, lol!
Surely now at least some few of the people in authority who have ignored Trump’s grossly obvious unfitness for office will do something, right?
Right?
Reminds me of his previous term talking about nuking the hurricane.
I voted for Trump because he’s the PRO PEACE President!
Bigly so. Big guy crying. Big big. Big guy. Bigly yes.
You really can’t believe a word someone like this says. They’ve all read the Art of War, and whatever they claim is going to be strategic misdirection.
Fuck
Please let this be a time he listens to someone sane.
USA: We drop nukes so you don’t have to
USA: We start wars because that’s the best way to prevent war.
That surely won’t lead to horrible outcomes.
This is a non-story. They think a bunker buster will work now.
