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I wish this was an inflated title but no, he really said this.

America, you need to get rid of this asshole ASAP.

Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115460423936412555

Thanks @notarobot@lemmy.zip

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[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

A giant waste of money. 800 nukes is plenty for pretty much anything and launching 100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth. If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

100 would probably mean the end of life as we know it on planet earth

It would alter the course of human history for sure, but it wouldn't actually end human civilization. Just being annoyingly pedantic after growing up in the cold war and learning about such cheerful topics as fallout patterns and blast wave radius and how to fashion air purifiers from an early age.

[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

True, but don't tell them that, it's better if they waste money on useless nuclears than genocide technology.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.

Ohh we got you fam.

[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you mean 100 all at once? Because we’ve been averaging 26.5 per year for the last 80 years

[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

Hmm I don't think so. If it is true those are over the ocean or something. I mean an attack with 100 missiles would destroy nearly any country. Russia is especially vulnerable because they only have a couple of cities with any population in them. Modern nukes are 50-75x the yield of the ones they dropped on Japan. There are all kinds of externalities. They can poison the ground water for generations. They can kill any life feeding in the area. They can cause fallout which is like a radioactive dust cloud covering everything. It isn't good.