@blatham,
blatham wrote:Though I am perhaps suffering from a lack of imagination, I think that such an outcome is very unlikely. Trump is all about bluster and threats. Further, he's far too cowardly to make such a significant and terrible decision where will be seen as the author of it. He always has others do the dirty work (so he can place blame elsewhere than himself) but in this instance, he doesn't have that out.
If North Korea nukes us, Trump will erase North Korea from existence. You'll just have to curl into a ball and cry for awhile until we're finished.
blatham wrote:I think, also, that the existing war machine (the military along with all the private enterprise entities that profit handsomely from warfare around the world) would definitely NOT want such an action to take place.
Our military is happy to erase from existence any entity who nukes an American city.
blatham wrote:I can't imagine anything that would so profoundly risk turning American and world citizens against militarism than a nuclear exchange.
Er, no.
Nuking an American city will turn us all into raging genocidal psychopaths. You'll want to stay out of our way until we're done massacring people.
blatham wrote:The existing regime of conventional weapons/war makes so many billions of dollars and it wouldn't make business sense to overturn this model.
The fact that we'll use nuclear weapons to fight a nuclear war doesn't mean there won't be conventional wars in the future.
And don't forget, nuclear weapons cost money too. We'll want to purchase new weapons to replace the ones we expend while erasing North Korea.
