Nukes being in the calculation is very likely to still incentivize de-escalation
It does, but much less if the US or China can take down ICBMs. The hard part is not the bomb but the delivery.
Both Russia and (still to lesser extent for now) USA are now adversaries of Europe
So it appears. If Trump would really oppose EU goals why don’t we try to influence American voters? Why have we remained silent about project 2025 when it could have changed the election? Why don’t we finance a free social network?
You’ll find no agreement with me about Americans controlling European politicians
It does, but much less if the US or China can take down ICBMs. The hard part is not the bomb but the delivery.
there’s no reason to think the extremely difficult problem of intercepting nuclear ICBMs with the kind of reliability required has or will be solved anytime soon. The thing about nukes it that you don’t really want to let even one through because of the devastating results and you can look at the current events in the middle east to see that while there are interceptors they don’t have anything close to 100% reliability.
It does, but much less if the US or China can take down ICBMs. The hard part is not the bomb but the delivery.
So it appears. If Trump would really oppose EU goals why don’t we try to influence American voters? Why have we remained silent about project 2025 when it could have changed the election? Why don’t we finance a free social network?
Why are you sure?
there’s no reason to think the extremely difficult problem of intercepting nuclear ICBMs with the kind of reliability required has or will be solved anytime soon. The thing about nukes it that you don’t really want to let even one through because of the devastating results and you can look at the current events in the middle east to see that while there are interceptors they don’t have anything close to 100% reliability.
But you don’t really mind either.
People have risked more for less.
I don’t know that people have ever risked millions of lives like that as would be the case here.