https://www.businessinsider.com/us-army-invites-back-vaccine-refusing-soldiers-amid-recruitment-crisis-2023-11

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    I should've guessed that "Russia's nukes are probably all old and falling apart anyway" was yet more projection

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Oh I'm sure theirs are too. The problem is that there is no profitable way to maintain a nuclear arsenal

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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        11 months ago

        no profitable way to maintain a nuclear arsenal

        I hate that it's important to maintain a "everyone dies" card, seeing as the only country we'd use nukes against would be a country powerful enough to have their own nukes, and these are getting fired for the sole purpose of ensuring that literally everyone goes out with us. I get that they're also deterrents, but the deterrent here is that this is our "everyone dies" card; I genuinely doubt any other nation would be the first to fire a nuke.