Despite budget cuts and ban, Obama buys Russian helicopters

[PoS]

Once youve won the nuke war, you gotta deal with these guys:

[dontworrybehappy]

I've already had a military general say Russia would win a nuke war because all they would have to do is back up into Siberia. That place is huge and rugged and it would take far more nuclear weapons to beat them in there than we have. He said we are surrounded by water on all sides, Russia can just back into Siberia. Would it be one person standing on a rock? Absolutely not. It would be millions of Russians who flee to Siberia that would be perfectly fine after a nuclear exchange.

Don't get me wrong, it wouldn't be pretty in Russia after we got done, but the vast expanse of land would ensure their survival, we don't have that guarantee. We could run into Canada, but it wouldn't be easy.

The misunderstanding of nuclear weapons is mindboggling. You realize that the area of destruction from the nukes in Japan was like less than a square mile?? Damage extended out only about 2 miles from the epicenter. Our nuclear weapons are larger now, but still not THAT big. We would definitely inflict incredible damage to Russia or anyone else, but I don't feel absolute destruction would be obtainable with our current level of warheads, especially if we find ourself engaging on multiple fronts.

What you define as destruction and what I define is far different.

So can you explain to me why its ok for Obama to remove money from our military and ground our aircraft to purchase aircraft for Afgans? In the 80s nobody was grounded when we bought arms for other countries, and we were buying small arms, not multi million dollar helicopters.

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[Spider]

Yes. Those poor, starving, mutated, siberians trying to scratch an existence out of the (frozen, but still dusted with radioactive fallout) dirt while the ecosystem collapses around them. Scary. We should definitely find a way to kill them all in the first strike. Because of course, nuclear weapons are just like conventional explosives. 20% of the energy released doesn't go towards icky radiation. Nothing like a little ionizing radiation in the watershed to keep the teeth healthy and the crops productive.

Refugees shitting blood and burying children all over the tundra...can't have that. They might think they won the war!

[eynon81]

ok first off...what possible reason would we and the Russians have for destroying each other? they're blue eyed white people who like drinking, humping, dogs, techno-music and hunting. I don't wanna kill em, I wanna hang out with em.


second...they are way urbanized. around 30% of their population lives in their top 20 largest cities. in the US it's like less than 10%. That means a strike of 20 standard nuclear payloads (with between 4 to 6 warheads) will kill 1 in 3 Russians.


China is also way more urbanized and way more densely populated than us. Deploying 10% of our nuclear assets (250ish warheads) would probably destroy the Han people as a recognizable social group.

[lnrw]

[The Comrade]

[Kane]

This thread fascinates me.

[The Dude]

Move into Siberia? lmao

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