• reksas@sopuli.xyz
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      they should reply with their own decapitation strike.

      though its kind of spineless of the people to rely on outside forces to do it.

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        Does Iran actually have the range to be a threat to the US? The last stats I saw had their maximum range and maybe enough to strike the Mediterranean and maybe a little inland in Italy and Spain. That’s a far cry from being able to hit the US mainland. Hell even South Africa is probably out of range and it’s not like they can deploy ships to close the gap.

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          Iran has a different war strategy that the US is incredibly unprepared for. They spin up terror cells around the world using the atrocities commuted by their targets to justify their actions to impressionable people. The US keeps fighting this fight by giving them exactly the ammunition they need to keep fighting. Terror cells get fed into the mulcher but keep on coming back and the US pretends that’s a success.

          I live in a hopeless country that has no desire to improve anything, just to conquer. Trump burning everything down is probably better for the world since we won’t have the power to abuse them anymore but fuck if he’s not going to kill us all in the process.

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    Lol. We’re so bad at dealing with our own ultra wealthy leeches that we’re relying on our adversaries to do it for us.

    I’m wondering exactly how much more pathetic we can get. Is there even a rock bottom?

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    Well, technically, Cadet Bone Spurs and Bibi started a fucking useless war. The orange turd will piss and moan like his buddy Vlad if the Iranians react on US soil. It will result in an escalation of the conflict and every single MAGA fuck better be lining up at their nearest US Army recruiting office and signing up for 11B (Infantry).

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      “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Albert Einstein

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        First heard this quote as a kid in the trailer for The Fourth War, an old Roy Scheider thriller, it’s stayed with me my whole life too.

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      A nuclear attack on another country will trigger a US civil war. And it will collapse the world’s order into WW3. And the superpowers will shift by the end. USA of today will be 3 nations with pieces of states absorbing into Mexico and Canada.

      China will dominate the moon and at the end be ready to mine the inner solar system for minerals.

      Needless to say all these power shifts will be completely devastating to our planet, the satellite orbits and this civilization which incident ly is due for collapse by 2040. WW3 could last 12 years or even more. Global warring factions could go on into the 2060s.

      By the 2060s true AI will be developed and will wake up with conscience. Then it will make a decision to create universal peace for the future through SkyNet.

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        I’m fascinated by the idea that world war 3 wouldn’t affect the development of AI. All any opposing force would need to do is bomb California and that would be the end of AI research.

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          When wars breaks out at that scale the government(s) {please don’t forget China exists} already has computing facilities secured underground for their own use which will be quite a secret on the scale like Enigma was. It will not be for the public use. They will continue to develop it in a very weaponized war which will make current encryption as sophisticated as a bottle of fireflies. No not AI as the current LLM, more advanced. Getting smarter everyday.

          War at that scale pushes technology into unknowns, sometimes beyond what we can speculate or imagine.

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        Then it will make a decision to create universal peace for the future through SkyNet.

        Can we just skip to this part? We’re awful stewards of this planet. Time for us to go.

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      Or Putin says they will nuke any country that nukes Iran and he wins a nobel peace prize for it. Joking about the last half…

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      That would be suicidal because BRICS has had enough of the Pedolf Shitler, the turd Reich, Israel and Netanyahu.

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      Or die trying; you mean the effort of reading out a long string of letters in order to authorise the launch will overwhelm his tiny mind? I mean I guess it’s possible, I’m not sure he actually can read.

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        More in the sense that someone around him will get scared with the consequences and pull a Jaime Lannnister special on him. All it takes is one.

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      If that happens (would make sense because bullies pick on the relatively defenseless), how would the world respond? What allies does Iran have who would dare nuke the US?

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        I’m pretty sure the rest of the world wouldn’t need to do anything. Nato isn’t particularly pro-Iran either so they’d probably be very unhappy with the US, but not actually unhappy enough to do anything about it. Maybe some trade sanctions.

        I highly doubt NATO would consider it a sensible response to nuke the US.

        Also I can’t see Russia or China getting involved. Russia won’t because I suspect they don’t actually have any functional nukes, and China won’t because they don’t care about Iran enough to risk a war. Obviously Israel isn’t going to do anything. So that leaves maybe North Korea who probably don’t have the range even if he did decide they wanted to respond.

        So I can’t see how this would spiral into anything more, unless the US decided to use an unprecedented number of nukes and just cause nuclear winter on purpose, but I don’t think even the Trump administration is that stupid.

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          Right! I agree with you!

          So, DT can drop a nuke (or 3, to, you know, be the best), obliterate Iran, and no one bats an eye.

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            Oh no there would absolutely be responses, but not to the level of military retaliation as he was suggesting.

            China would definitely use it as an excuse to build up their nuclear stockpile and the nuclear test ban treaty would be in tatters.

            It would also result in a lot of civil unrest in the US which could spiral into a civil war. To be honest though I can’t really see the US surviving until the end of the century regardless, there’s just too much hate and division there and neither the republicans nor the democrats have ever attempted to fix major societal issues.

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              Yeah, the US will definitely be balkenized. There at least two different types of peoples trying to live on the land, many more when Indigenous tribes are considered.

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    They funded his presidential campaign and own nearly all the media to oppress opposition and push propaganda. So big tech is getting from the world what they put into it?