While the pandemic has put immense stress on nearly every country's health care system, no country — and certainly no other high-income country — has suffered the way the United States has. Americans make up less than 5% of the global population, but account for nearly one in five of the world's 2.3 million deaths. All the more astounding is that as the richest, most powerful country in the world, its overwhelming resources did nothing to help absorb the shock of an event like this.
That's certainly a terrifying prospect, but I don't even know what strategic value nuclear war would have. Does America just throw a hissy fit and say "if I can't stay the undisputed world superpower then I'm taking you all down with me!"?
I mean, maybe. Who knows what would happen if we get an even more openly fascist government in power.
For me, it's more a situation of the nuclear kulaks, not necessarily a nuclear war, where they burn (nuke) their own fields (country) to prevent the socialists from getting it.
yeah I agree it is kinda alarmist. Nuclear war doesn't make much sense. I am thinking if the empire starts crumbling we might get some evangelical loon governor who feels like bringing about the apocalypse. Probably not very likely (but then again it seems we have been very close to it during the cold war).
That's certainly a terrifying prospect, but I don't even know what strategic value nuclear war would have. Does America just throw a hissy fit and say "if I can't stay the undisputed world superpower then I'm taking you all down with me!"?
I mean, maybe. Who knows what would happen if we get an even more openly fascist government in power.
For me, it's more a situation of the nuclear kulaks, not necessarily a nuclear war, where they burn (nuke) their own fields (country) to prevent the socialists from getting it.
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yeah I agree it is kinda alarmist. Nuclear war doesn't make much sense. I am thinking if the empire starts crumbling we might get some evangelical loon governor who feels like bringing about the apocalypse. Probably not very likely (but then again it seems we have been very close to it during the cold war).
I mean, I wouldn't rule it out. It's not like this is a wholly rational system we're dealing with.