barneypiccolo

Hopefully, but not guaranteed. The rockets aren't all coming out of silos in Russian territory. A launch from a sub off a coastal target like DC, NYC, LA, SF, etc. might reach its target long before a missile defense weapon could target the threat.

If only a handful deploy successfully, it's a major problem.

I do hope a few blow up in the silos, and render vast swathes of Russia uninhabitable for centuries.

That's a fantasy, not reality. We live in reality.

At this point, it could easily be done, except that Putin would nuke Europe (and probably everybody else) before going down. That is literally the ONLY reason it hasn't been done.

A phobia of phobias? It's called Phobophobia.

This simple statement explains the entire human history of religion.

First of all, America is not "the most violent empire on the planet." America has the capability of being the most violent nation, but at the moment, our potential for violence is being eclipsed by other nations who are actively employing the same levels of violence that we are capable of. Nothing we are currently doing comes close to the violence that Russia and Israel are employing.

And yes, America is the only nation to have deployed nuclear weapons against human targets, but that was 80 years ago, and ended the worst war in human history. After demonstrating its power, just the presence of nuclear weapons in a nation's arsenal has been enough to keep the most powerful, well-armed, violent nations (including America) from going too far.

We no longer live in a world where our biggest fear would be the government controlling high level corporations and their operators.

We now live in a world controlled by Sociopathic Oligarchs who can afford to create government level technology. Right now it's mostly tourism rockets and satellites, but now we see Skum weaponizing that technology, and/or using it as a bargaining chip. He has cut off Starlink in a war zone to benefit the county who defers to him, but is openly hostile to the US, and now he's threatening to cut off our access to the space station. He is using tech that WE PAY FOR with government contracts and grants, to pursue his own diplomacy, for his own benefit, and against our interests.

Eventually, someone will start building and stockpiling actual weapons, perhaps even atomics. Then we will be asking why someone didn't step in and stop them before they became a bonafide threat.

We paid for Skum's technology, and he gets to control it as a courtesy. Just the threat of using it against us should be enough reason to declare him a national security threat, confiscate his American-taxpayer financed businesses, and imprison him.

To this day, nobody knows how they got that unique guitar distortion sound in that song. It's been long-forgotten, even by those that were at the session.

This hump has all the charm of an unwiped asshole.

"assassination"

Absolutely. From the moment they came together, I began to look forward to the inevitable day that they would finally turn on each other. It was a predictable as the sun rising tomorrow morning.

Frankly, Im surprised it took this long. I was predicting 3 weeks at the outside.