RUSSIA WITHDRAWS FROM MEDIUM RANGE MISSILE TREATY IN 2017, IZMASH DELIVERS HAZEL MIRV IN SEVEN YEARS.

AMERICANS FUND MINUTEMAN REPLACEMENT IN 2014. NINE CONTRACTED COMPANIES WITH DOZENS OF FACTORIES EACH DUE TO CONGRESSIONAL PORK. PREDICTABLY, IT IS (AT LEAST TWO YEARS) LATE, (FORTY BILLION DOLLARS) OVER BUDGET, AND THEY ARE STARTING OVER FROM SCRATCH A DECADE IN DUE TO PANTS ON HEAD INITIAL PARAMETERS.

THE NUKES ARE THE ONE FUCKING THING THAT SHOULD JUST HAPPEN MORE OR LESS SEAMLESSLY IN A FUNCTIONING EMPIRE, BUT WE AREN'T IN ONE.

NOW, TAKE THE ORANGE PILL OR SNORT THE PINK POWDER.

::: Orange Pill spoiler It took four centuries after the sack of rome for calling yourselves "The Roman Empire" to fall out of fashion. :::

::: Pink Powder spoiler Even if South won the civil war, the 1915 Mississippi cotton harvest would have been done with steam.

What would have happened to the slaves is left as an exercise in torment for the reader. :::