I think - or maybe just hope - that those in charge still understand what mutually assured destruction is. What's the point of nuking Russia if your entire country will be a burning pile of ash as a result?
Or from a more ideological standpoint: the point of the bourgeois state is to protect capital. NYC getting nuked is the opposite of protecting capital.
I think even a limited nuclear response from Russia would send them scurrying back. On the other hand half the US military complex are apocalyptic evangelicals that want nuclear war to happen, another third are Scientologists, and the remainder moderates keeping them in check are radical splinters of the Latter Day Saints.
I think - or maybe just hope - that those in charge still understand what mutually assured destruction is. What's the point of nuking Russia if your entire country will be a burning pile of ash as a result?
Or from a more ideological standpoint: the point of the bourgeois state is to protect capital. NYC getting nuked is the opposite of protecting capital.
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I think even a limited nuclear response from Russia would send them scurrying back. On the other hand half the US military complex are apocalyptic evangelicals that want nuclear war to happen, another third are Scientologists, and the remainder moderates keeping them in check are radical splinters of the Latter Day Saints.
Capital is unfettered by land. They've built bunkers with servers in them and can institute trades using satellite uplink.
They think they can roast the earth and trade in peace underground.