EPTWoke up to this bit of lovely news today.. I didn't have this on my bingo card, but let's be honest, in hindsight we should have seen this coming
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Excludos
Norway8142 Posts
Woke up to this bit of lovely news today.. I didn't have this on my bingo card, but let's be honest, in hindsight we should have seen this coming | ||
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KT_Elwood
Germany1070 Posts
But they fill headlines and make "journalists" happy. So they suck his stubby mushroom dick and fondle shrinkly orange balls.. just to print everything he says verbatim and not even question it the 1,000,000,000,000 th time he just lied, made something up, didn't mean it, told a joke or had a stroke.... or whatever his lame excuse is. Trump is an engagement bait generator for "news". The nuclear stockpile is even in reduced maintainance because of the shutdown. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr1lk4k1ejo When trump says "nuclear tests" - he doesn't mean to blow up bikini atoll again... he will have Pete "Major" Kegstand lick some 9V Batteries in a DoE/NNSA office and declare the stockpile to be the bigliest and bestliest and deadliest again- thanks to Donald Jeffrey Trump. Trump just "Fixed China Situation" by undoing all that he has done since january and goes back to Bidennomics. That's so frustrating. Since Trump is EOL anyway, he doesn't care that he wastes everybody's time. He finds somthing to be working well (US-China trade), so he breaks it.. only to walk back on breaking it and declare victory by just caving to the old status quo. | ||
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oBlade
United States5756 Posts
On October 30 2025 17:26 Excludos wrote: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-asks-pentagon-immediately-start-testing-us-nuclear-weapons-2025-10-30/ Woke up to this bit of lovely news today.. I didn't have this on my bingo card, but let's be honest, in hindsight we should have seen this coming The issue is Russia did a test of a capability the US doesn't have. Which the US strategic minds thought is superfluous, and didn't pursue, and in the interest of denuclearization also eschewed. The same reason the US doesn't use nuclear bazookas anymore, despite that the army would really like to have nukes. If you use a small nuke, you immediately escalate constantly to bigger nukes and get global nuclear war. The same idea with the torpedo. Poseidon is both nuclear powered (so like a drone submarine) and a nuclear delivery system. Like a ICT instead of an ICBM. Or a cruise torpedo since it needs constant propulsion. The US doesn't have nuclear tipped torpedoes. Because the US basically doesn't need an AOE torpedo that can blow up an entire fleet, or harbor, in one shot, because anyway nobody else has entire fleets that couldn't just be blown up in another way, and the same with harbors/ports which you can target with the rest of the nuclear triad. US submarines are capable of blowing up Russian submarines, and of nuking entire countries, but the niche of actually nuking an enemy submarine was not worth what it takes to build submarines that can launch nuclear torpedoes which then potentially puts nuclear escalation in the hands of sub captains. Despite that the "test" of the nuclear torpedo didn't involve an underwater nuclear detonation, which it might sound like at first, you still may have to test something in response. Whether that's shooting some ballistic missiles with dummy payloads, or an underground nuclear test which is the only way that doesn't violate treaty still. | ||
micronesia
United States24724 Posts
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Doublemint
Austria8624 Posts
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KT_Elwood
Germany1070 Posts
The result is the suggestion to do away with the legislative alltogether. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/-dont-need-anything-congress-trump-no-legislative-agenda-rcna240533 | ||
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