• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Mattis said, “It’s clear they are so buried out in the central U.S. that any enemy that wants to take us on is going to have to commit two, three, four weapons to make sure they take each one out. In other words, the ICBM force provides a cost-imposing strategy on an adversary.”

    You know, I feel like if somebody is committed enough to blowing the US up that they are willing to use nuclear weapons in order to do so, they

    1. Aren't going to care about the cost, and
    2. Probably don't care if they knock out all of the US' nukes or not

    Since launching such weapons has long been considered suicidal anyway. But if we stopped building nukes, I guess we would have to cut the defense budget