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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Not really.
Say we don't have nukes and Russia hits the entire eastern seaboard. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, the entire Congress, the President, Vice President, JCOS, the Pentagon, and all of our military assets on the east coast are destroyed.
What are our options for retaliation?
Bear in mind that the American government is now effectively nonexistent and our military has been decapitated. Chain of command no longer exists.
edited 14th Jan '16 10:07:20 AM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?Since when have Pakistan or India nuked each other?
As for MAD being stupid, I think you'll find that the people who rely on the American nuclear umbrella would disagree, you know the Souh Koreans and Eastern Europeans.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranFlorida ditches surgical standards after failing hospital donates to GOP
The St. Mary’s facility is run by Tenet Healthcare, which coincidentally donated $200,000 to the state’s republicans between 2013 and 2014, including $100,000 to Republican Governor Rick Scott’s political action committee. Those donations were the highest of any Tenet gave to political groups in other states.
A month after CNN’s report, the state announced that it would repeal the standards for children’s heart surgery.
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In December, Florida Administrative Law Judge John Van Laningham ruled that the state could remove the standards from state hospitals. In his ruling, he argued that the surgical standards were unnecessary because doctors will do the right thing because they want to, not because they are required to do so. “The notion, therefore, that every facility in the CMS network would suddenly stop providing quality pediatric cardiac services immediately upon the repeal of the Standards rests on pure speculation—and is a little insulting to the health care professionals who personally deliver those services,” he wrote.
Evil. I doubt the people of Florida know about this, and they'd see it as just political propaganda if you told them. Things just have to get worse and worse before people will realize there is a problem and do something about it.
@ Xopher:
Douglas MacArthur suggested just that. He was sacked by President Eisenhower.
Of course, by then Soviets had nuclear weapons themselves.
edited 14th Jan '16 10:26:47 AM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling On

Except there are ways to retaliate besides using nukes