What that response is, be it mobilizing tens of millions to be out on the streets to stage a revolution or coordinating community defense, I don’t know but we inch closer and close to this scenario.

I’m going to bring this up with my local chapter. There needs to be a global response.

Am I completely out of line here? Am I being hysterical? Probably but I’m so certain of this happening and I feel like the nuclear scare should be at a fever pitch right now.

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[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

As others have said, there's little to be gained by such an action. That being said, the same could also have been said about going to war with Iran in the first place.

I think it's a meaningful, if largely unlikely, possibility that is worth discussing.

The US is in the process of being, for the first time in western media, roundly and thoroughly humiliated. If they start flinging nukes, it won't be to achieve a strategic objective, it will be to protect their notoriety as the dominant thugs of the world. And that objective does seem to be a priority lately.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I think we will see ground troops first though. At this point our best hope is that this thing outlasts trump. On the other hand maybe it's the Israelis who are fucking crazy and also nuclear equipped we need to worry about.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

best hope is that this thing outlasts trump.

I don't want to lathe something into existence, but a democrat in office would see libs go back to brunch when the US drops a nuke anyway. They will even cheer it on if someone like Harris or Buttigieg pulls the trigger, rationalizing it with "having to make the hard choices to protect democracy." The dem president will do it for domestic reasons the way Obama postured drone strikes on hospitals as looking tough in front of Republicans.

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Though Trump has arguably accelerated things a bit, pointless invasions and huge attacks of poorer countries are extremely normal for USA over the past few decades, this is not reducible to just Trump-thought. The difference this time is that the enemy has missiles, modern military tech, and a sizeable, well organised army.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is incredibly stupid even by US standards

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

I can only disagree, I think it's pretty typical by US standards. We just live in a world that can increasingly fight back.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

There was little to be gained by starting this war completely unprepared for it, yet they did. They are now looking for a way out, a nuke seems like an obvious way out.