what do nuclear weapons get you when literally everything else in the country is contingent on imperial aid? they can nuke somewhere and become even bigger pariahs, what would that actually accomplish?
I think a few tens of million from direct and indirect damage and then maybe 300 million from famine depending on the soot injected into the atmosphere, so about the same as a decade of deaths under capitalism.
It’ll suck if no one trades with you, and you’ll run high risks of shortages/famines, but having enough nukes to obliterate the first person who tries to invade you is deterrent enough for independence.
I think a lot of this hinges on the hope that westoids collectively still believe in biblical prophecies.
what do nuclear weapons get you when literally everything else in the country is contingent on imperial aid? they can nuke somewhere and become even bigger pariahs, what would that actually accomplish?
One interpretation of the Samson Option is Israel deciding “if we can’t exist, we’re taking everyone else down with us”.
I don’t think they have enough strategic nukes to do that.
Maybe they only kill some tens of millions of people then, rather than everyone
I think a few tens of million from direct and indirect damage and then maybe 300 million from famine depending on the soot injected into the atmosphere, so about the same as a decade of deaths under capitalism.
It’ll suck if no one trades with you, and you’ll run high risks of shortages/famines, but having enough nukes to obliterate the first person who tries to invade you is deterrent enough for independence.
I think a lot of this hinges on the hope that westoids collectively still believe in biblical prophecies.