US forces strike Houthi sites in Yemen as Biden says allied action hasn’t yet stopped ship attacks - eviltoast
  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    This needs to be said. USA needs to be done towards the same things that USA did to Japan in 1945. It needs to happen once, and they will never dare to step a military foot outside their borders ever again.

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      10 months ago

      The nuclear attack on Japan wasn’t intended to defeat them - they were already essentially defeated, just trying to find a more favorable way to lose. The nuclear attack’s purpose was to intimidate the USSR, as a power flex. The reason nuclear weapons are a deterrent isn’t because a couple of nukes hitting your country is a problem - that’s just a minor inconvenience when it comes to war. The reason nuclear weapons are a deterrent is because the countries that do have them have a lot of them, and can destroy not just a couple important cities, but cover your entire country in radioactive waste.

      Not only will your “plan” not achieve its goal, but it will also hurt hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of civilians. I know it’s popular to associate a people with a government, and that’s not completely baseless, but - and I can’t believe I have to say this - that’s absolutely no reason to launch a nuclear attack. That’s just genocidal nonsense. There’s a reason countries at war don’t kill civilians, and it’s not “good will”.

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        10 months ago

        So do you think the nukes did not kill people in Japan, or set them back a few decades? The purpose of such a neutraliser should be to stop USA from ever doing what they keep doing overseas – genocide and economic/psychological enslavement.

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      10 months ago

      Do you actually think America wouldn’t go absolutely ape trying to find who nuked them? Do you not remember 911 when the whole country collectively lost it’s mind?

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        You realise the whole world has well prepared nuclear armed countries at this point, unlike back then? USA always tends to calculate optimally the most amount of enemy damage while taking the least amount. If USA attempts to attack others, they will get wiped off earth very easily without a speck of dust remaining. Even North Korea would be enough theoretically.

        The thing is, the non-Anglo world is tired of NATO terrorism/colonialism going on for centuries, and will probably explode at some point in the very near future. And the alternative hegemony and systems are pretty much in place with BRICS+ being much more powerful than G7/NATO powers, demonstrably with all the NATO weaponry failures in Ukraine.