“Iran’s invading- better nuke Holland”

I'm not entirely sure what would happen if Israel somehow got mad at us.

No, they would hit them with facts logic and evidence Ben Shapiro style

People really over estimate nuclear weapons anyway, this sounds ridiculous but you have to consider how many launch vehicles Israel has armed at any time. Enough to nuke some people but not enough to end the world certainly.

Only the US and Russia have huge amounts of launch vehicles ready, perhaps china would come in a distant third.

I’m curious because of Trump’s sudden backpedaling on taking troops out of Syria @Lawrence of Eurabia

For example the UK is a nuclear armed state that only maintains submarine launched ICBM's, with 4 subs available you are looking at a max of two out of port on a regular basis, so maybe 48 warheads in total, which isn't that many.

I've kinda lost all faith in Trump recently. Maybe he can pull a fast one and get the wall, but I don't see that happening soon.

48 is a lot

of course who's to say nuclear weapons even exist<:galaxybrain:366743669484683264>

It's a enough for a deterrent but people drastically over estimate nuclear arms, they could cast the world into turmoil but there simply isn't enough yield to kill everyone on earth or anything crazy. Perhaps at the height of the cold war you would have been closer.

oh yeah, for sure. people would still live

MAD is a weapon in itself

Plus with the globally integrated economies we have now, a war between the US and China would crash the global economy.

@Lawrence of Eurabia I have faith in him, he has already sent thousands of troops over to the border as we speak, but what *KIND* of troops is the important question.

He's probably getting ready to build it with the Army.

He already has the draft to declare a SoE on the Southern border. He either builds that wall or doesn't get the second call

we'll see, but i'm not to certain anymore

I can now claim the achievement of getting Jared Taylor to set up a Discord account

Good read, Donald Trump Jr. retweeted about it http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/04/congresss-vote-keep-war-afghanistan-sells-american-soldiers/

I think all the leaders involved in these disaster wars should be imprisoned for treason.

Banish every pro war politician to the places they waged war in

Now you live in iraq since you love it so much. Have fun

What's really cool about this movement is that it doesn't require me to let go of the good ideas that I had when I sympathized with the left

I was always anti-imperialist my entire life, but a few years ago, I had to choose between the neocon right and the ethnomasochist left

now I can keep my opposition to pointless wars while also being being against mass immigration

not that neo-cons were ever really against mass immigration, but at least they're moderately against illegals

Why don't politicians fight the wars themselves anymore?

We are ruled by an effete academic class.

Pretty sure the founding fathers advocated for the total opposite

George Washington led his troops in front of the ranks at times

Even tho he sucked at it.

He was a grand strategy General similar to Eisenhower, not a battle General

or that's what he was best at

In Denmark's "school general" election in which the country's 8th, 9th, and 10th graders all participated, the Danish conservative parties collectively won 51.2% of the vote.

The older I get the more I think Starship Troopers had it right. Service = Citizenship. No time in military service, no right to vote.

Biggest redpill in starship troopers is the longer we stay on earth the more likely our extinction

Would you guys recommend Starship Troopers? I've really liked the Foundation series. And I've been thinking about something similar, voting rights based on having "skin in the game". How that would be defined or determined, I'm not sure.

The devil is always in the details. Only 8.4% for the Danish People's Party.

Starship troopers is painful because it's grim future is so much brighter than our present.

Also well worth the read.

@Jakob-NY , The first time I read it was on my 1st deployment. After I finished it I wondered how we got into this mess, and it was that the decisions were made by people who had no skin In the game . It was written in the 50s if I’m correct, and it’s just as applicable now as it was then.