CthulhusIntern [he/him] to askchapo • 2 months agoThe leaders of the west do a complete 180 out of nowhere and decide that Israel must be stopped. How do they go about this without Israel then doing even worse things with their nuclear weapons?message-squaremessage-square26 fedilinkarrow-up156
arrow-up156message-squareThe leaders of the west do a complete 180 out of nowhere and decide that Israel must be stopped. How do they go about this without Israel then doing even worse things with their nuclear weapons?CthulhusIntern [he/him] to askchapo • 2 months agomessage-square26 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareCthulhusIntern [he/him]hexagonhexbear18·2 months agoOne interpretation of the Samson Option is Israel deciding "if we can't exist, we're taking everyone else down with us". link
minus-squareHexBroke [any, comrade/them]hexbear9·2 months agoI don't think they have enough strategic nukes to do that. link
minus-squareChapo_is_Red [he/him]hexbear9·2 months agoMaybe they only kill some tens of millions of people then, rather than everyone link
minus-squareHexBroke [any, comrade/them]hexbear6·2 months agoI think a few tens of million from direct and indirect damage and then maybe 300 million from famine depending on the soot injected into the atmosphere, so about the same as a decade of deaths under capitalism. link
One interpretation of the Samson Option is Israel deciding "if we can't exist, we're taking everyone else down with us".
I don't think they have enough strategic nukes to do that.
Maybe they only kill some tens of millions of people then, rather than everyone
I think a few tens of million from direct and indirect damage and then maybe 300 million from famine depending on the soot injected into the atmosphere, so about the same as a decade of deaths under capitalism.