Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?
Birch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoWell, no, but I’d rather be in the position of the stick holder than the potential pointy end receiver.
Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?
Birch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoWell, no, but I’d rather be in the position of the stick holder than the potential pointy end receiver.
cabbage@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Nuclear war is not a stuck battle, it's a knife fight. You'll both end up bleeding out. Best thing you can do is to not fucking participate.
People should watch Doctor Strangelove as a fucking case study.
sith@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What if that’s not an option? It could for sure be rational for a violent actor to force it’s will on a non-voilent one. One only needs one rotten apple and the Nash equilibrium dissolves.
cabbage@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
We should be hesitant to accept too many lessons from the American realist school of thought. Their great legacy is to narrowly steer clear of a nuclear holocaust, on several instances out of sheer luck, while repeatedly fucking up huge parts of the world beyond recognition.
Somehow we celebrate this clown parade for the one disaster they nearly brought upon us, but we narrowly escaped. There's no lessons to be learned from the Americans, except as a cautionary tale.
Sure, MAD worked; we only came closer to our own extinction than we ever have in the process.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Welcome to nuclear deterrent.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
No, that’s not the case anymore. Modern anti-air missile systems can take care of nukes.
It’s not a knife fight, it’s a “who can spend more money” fight to the death.