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Post by drakeypoos on Nov 20, 2024 11:14:12 GMT
Iran bombed Israel, a nuclear armed state, just a few weeks ago. An alleged nuclear armed state surely you mean! |
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Post by Vandelay on Nov 20, 2024 11:21:53 GMT
But surely no one is mad enough to actually press the button that ends the world right?  |
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Post by rftp on Nov 20, 2024 11:23:11 GMT
Iran bombed Israel, a nuclear armed state, just a few weeks ago. An alleged nuclear armed state surely you mean! They can sue me if they like. |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Nov 20, 2024 11:24:55 GMT
But surely no one is mad enough to actually press the button that ends the world right? Nuking the illegals from Illegal Land is good for the economy and what Jesus did to the tax collectors. He nuked them. |
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 20, 2024 11:34:22 GMT
Still can't quite believe that criminal is going to be in the White House next year and not a prison cell.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Nov 20, 2024 12:04:15 GMT
He probably wouldn't have been sent to jail, even if he had lost.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Nov 20, 2024 12:13:17 GMT
Only Trump and Putin...
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Post by robthehermit on Nov 20, 2024 12:17:31 GMT
As I can practically see Devonport from my window I guess I'd better stock up marshmallows.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Nov 20, 2024 12:49:10 GMT
To toast or for afters when your teeth will have fallen out? We're only up the road in the middle between Plymouth and Portsmouth so think it will get rather toasty here too.
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 20, 2024 12:53:42 GMT
A full nuclear exchange means you either die fast or die slowly pretty much anywhere in the UK, I live in a garrison town so I know I'd be lucky enough to be in the fast category.
Putin is full of shit though, his red lines have been crossed over and over again and he keeps moving the goal posts to new red lines. Fuck him.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Nov 20, 2024 13:01:50 GMT
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Post by smoothpete on Nov 20, 2024 13:02:04 GMT
I live 10 miles away from AWE so I’m assuming I’ll be in the “fast but not immediate” death area 👍
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Post by skalpadda on Nov 20, 2024 13:10:36 GMT
But surely no one is mad enough to actually press the button that ends the world right? It would be funny if he nuked a hurricane and the hurricane nuked him back. |
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Post by robthehermit on Nov 20, 2024 13:19:18 GMT
To toast or for afters when your teeth will have fallen out? We're only up the road in the middle between Plymouth and Portsmouth so think it will get rather toasty here too. To toast. I'll have a lovely view from the proper side of the Tamar. |
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Nov 20, 2024 13:21:51 GMT
But only for a split second. 💥
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Post by dam on Nov 20, 2024 13:32:30 GMT
I was looking at Potassium Iodide tablets on Amazon yesterday! Also Tamiflu for H5N1.... I wasn't worried that much, as I don't really think NATO, Russia or China want to be destroyed. But I read "Nuclear War A scenario" recently and that got me going again....
North Korea launch a single ground launched ICBM targetting Washington DC. While the Pentagon gets into action, figuring out where it's going, likelihood of success, ballistic countermeasures, getting the President and Vice President to make decisions and also get to safety etc etc, a North Korean sub pops up off California and fires a short range nuke onto a nuclear powerstation.
The US chain of command is broken (as the Pres is missing in Washington) but the command goes out to retaliate against Korea. Russia misinterpret the missiles heading over their territory as an attack on them, the Chinese consider it an attack on them, and the whole lot fly. It's over in 30 minutes.
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Post by Dreyzing on Nov 20, 2024 14:00:11 GMT
I was looking at Potassium Iodide tablets on Amazon yesterday! Also Tamiflu for H5N1.... I wasn't worried that much, as I don't really think NATO, Russia or China want to be destroyed. But I read "Nuclear War A scenario" recently and that got me going again....
North Korea launch a single ground launched ICBM targetting Washington DC. While the Pentagon gets into action, figuring out where it's going, likelihood of success, ballistic countermeasures, getting the President and Vice President to make decisions and also get to safety etc etc, a North Korean sub pops up off California and fires a short range nuke onto a nuclear powerstation.
The US chain of command is broken (as the Pres is missing in Washington) but the command goes out to retaliate against Korea. Russia misinterpret the missiles heading over their territory as an attack on them, the Chinese consider it an attack on them, and the whole lot fly. It's over in 30 minutes.
My Bitcoin will be alright tho, won't it? |
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Post by apollo on Nov 20, 2024 14:51:16 GMT
going to stock up on Bottle caps
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Post by Duffking on Nov 20, 2024 15:29:44 GMT
I was looking at Potassium Iodide tablets on Amazon yesterday! Also Tamiflu for H5N1.... I wasn't worried that much, as I don't really think NATO, Russia or China want to be destroyed. But I read "Nuclear War A scenario" recently and that got me going again....
North Korea launch a single ground launched ICBM targetting Washington DC. While the Pentagon gets into action, figuring out where it's going, likelihood of success, ballistic countermeasures, getting the President and Vice President to make decisions and also get to safety etc etc, a North Korean sub pops up off California and fires a short range nuke onto a nuclear powerstation.
The US chain of command is broken (as the Pres is missing in Washington) but the command goes out to retaliate against Korea. Russia misinterpret the missiles heading over their territory as an attack on them, the Chinese consider it an attack on them, and the whole lot fly. It's over in 30 minutes.
I'll be honest, literally everything in that scenario is just totally absurd. |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Nov 20, 2024 15:35:26 GMT
Well I guess it's done on the prerequisite that countries do not communicate with each other which we know they unequivocally do, especially in this area.
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Post by drakeypoos on Nov 20, 2024 15:46:22 GMT
Yeah not to mention, the idea of North Korea actually threatening the mainland of the USA was ludicrous in that old Xbox game (Homefront?) and it still is now. Recent experience in Ukraine has shown that sadly they are a bunch of starving goose steppers without any useful military application.
I once met a N.Korean refugee in previous employment, she had escaped hanging on to the underside of a lorry if I remember correctly.
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Post by Lizard on Nov 20, 2024 15:50:14 GMT
I was looking at Potassium Iodide tablets on Amazon yesterday! Also Tamiflu for H5N1.... I wasn't worried that much, as I don't really think NATO, Russia or China want to be destroyed. But I read "Nuclear War A scenario" recently and that got me going again....
North Korea launch a single ground launched ICBM targetting Washington DC. While the Pentagon gets into action, figuring out where it's going, likelihood of success, ballistic countermeasures, getting the President and Vice President to make decisions and also get to safety etc etc, a North Korean sub pops up off California and fires a short range nuke onto a nuclear powerstation.
The US chain of command is broken (as the Pres is missing in Washington) but the command goes out to retaliate against Korea. Russia misinterpret the missiles heading over their territory as an attack on them, the Chinese consider it an attack on them, and the whole lot fly. It's over in 30 minutes.
I'll be honest, literally everything in that scenario is just totally absurd. Justifies the Tom Clancy thread title though. |
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 20, 2024 15:56:42 GMT
Guardian reporting that Storm Shadows have been used in Russia itself for the first time. Oh no, a red line has been breached again! Weird that it wasn't a red line when they were blowing up Crimea which Putin said was Russia.
Oh well, guess we'll see what the next red line is, something pointless I bet.
I do wonder if Harris had won whether or not Biden would have changed his view on the use of American (and by extension allied) weapons could be used within Russian borders?
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Post by simple on Nov 20, 2024 16:08:41 GMT
My suspicion is that Biden’s team think when Trump says “end the war” he means ‘Ukraine surrenders and gives up loads of territory to Russia’ so the decision to take the breaks off is an attempt to push Russia back and/or give Ukraine a stronger hand if/when ceasefire talks are opened.
If Harris had won then Ukrainian surrender wouldn’t be the US’s default position so the war would continue as it has been.
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Post by JonFE on Nov 20, 2024 16:10:53 GMT
I do wonder if Harris had won whether or not Biden would have changed his view on the use of American (and by extension allied) weapons could be used within Russian borders? Probably not. It could be his last hurray, actually, "Payback is a bitch" moment to Donnie, similar to Trump's withdrawal from Afghanistan that Biden had to honor.
Edit: I just hope we, the RotW, don't get caught up in the crossfire...
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Post by drakeypoos on Nov 20, 2024 16:15:29 GMT
It’s ok for us in Blighty, Hurricanes will tip the ICBMs with their wing tips and send them harmlessly off course, like we did in the last war.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Nov 20, 2024 16:16:18 GMT
It's easy to get where you need to, just weave through all the piled up cars. At high speed preferably. I sometimes wonder about those mass evacuation scenes, why are they finding it so difficult to leave the area. Then I remember I sometimes struggle to leave the end of my road on a Saturday lunchtime thanks to the McDonald's round the corner. Hopefully the Golden Arches will be a first strike target. |
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Post by simple on Nov 20, 2024 17:13:36 GMT
I live in a village but its close enough to two towns that there’s zero chance we’d make it out into open country without being stuck in a classic cinematic evacuation traffic jam. And thats before factoring in having to get across one of the three major A roads anyone leaving Tyneside would use if they wanted to head north following a satnav.
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Post by rftp on Nov 20, 2024 17:23:30 GMT
I also live in a village but it gridlocks when the infant/junior school kicks out, and I doubt I'd even be able to get onto the main street in a disaster evac situation... so we'd have to go cross country on foot.
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Post by Lizard on Nov 20, 2024 17:27:03 GMT
I'm gambling on a decent mutation
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