What that response is, be it mobilizing tens of millions to be out on the streets to stage a revolution or coordinating community defense, I don’t know but we inch closer and close to this scenario.

I’m going to bring this up with my local chapter. There needs to be a global response.

Am I completely out of line here? Am I being hysterical? Probably but I’m so certain of this happening and I feel like the nuclear scare should be at a fever pitch right now.

  • Euergetes [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    17 days ago

    if by some miracle that terrific heap of hubris doesn’t cause immediate global thermonuclear war (recite the shahada in this eventuality), Russia, China, DPRK and France will take care of the dissolution of US empire. If that doesn’t yield a flailing apocalypse from the US’s death bed (recite the shahada in that eventuality), we get world communism. it’s elementary dialectics.

      • Euergetes [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        23·
        17 days ago

        European nations will be put under France’s ‘nuclear umbrella’ or Russia’s. this is not a statement of France’s rectitude, they’re simply the european nation with a nuclear triad that is not the US, and will have to be rallied around if the US plunges the world into nuclear realpolitik.

        it would be funny to see Napoleon’s dream over the heap of Europe finally achieved 200 years later tho low key

      • Sickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
        16·
        17 days ago

        France is probably the only country more eager to use nukes than the United States. I believe they’re the only current UN-official nuclear power with an explicit first-strike doctrine. I also recall an anecdote shared somewhere about a French general or official’s disbelief at the extent of the US’s nuclear stockpile and nuclear retaliation/escalation planning, with the reason given being “it doesn’t take that many to remove Moscow from the map”.

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        17 days ago

        France’s nuclear weapon’s policy is incredibly unhinged. Their plan for not letting West Germany fall to the Soviets was to completely glass West Germany with nukes.