Comment on The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months agoI do think we have the power to be the better man. Lead by example and don’t follow. If Russia were to successfully nuke the US would you really want to retaliate? A retaliation would kill millions of innocent people.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Do you want to live in a world where Russia is nuking major world powers without repercussions? Because if there’s no retaliation, they’re going to nuke any country they feel like nuking.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Let them. The blood of millions of lives will be on there hands. Somehow I don’t think they are going to do that willy nilly. Same thing with the US. The US probably isn’t going to nuke Russia.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They don’t care about blood on their hands, and I don’t think the countries getting nuked would agree with your approach.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
That’s part of the problem. We shouldn’t look at Russia and think senseless brutes
froh42@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The basic idea is not letting anyone nuke anyone else by making the consequences really really absurd.
The doomsday machine isn’t for winning wars, it is for avoiding them.