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Originally Posted by kirklancaster
[emoji23] But you are a 'glass half empty' type of guy T.S. - even when it is a FULL 2 PINT STEIN in front of you. [emoji23]
There exists such strategies as 'Preemptive Strikes' and 'Detterent' - all good stuff.
It is total B.S. that the 'EU' has 'kept the peace' in Europe since WW2' - it is the hoorors which befell two little cities in Japan which have thus far prevented WW3, and they are called Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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No one who believes that we need nuclear weapons could be described as a "glass half full" person I'm afraid Kirk, it is the ultimate "last desperate contingency" of someone who believes that the world will soon collapse.
Deterrent = m.a.d, exactly what I'm talking about. It is only a deterrent to other fully-armed states. If we are ever in a military conflict that would require us to use such a deterrent it is already over. It is NOT a deterrent of any kind to groups like ISIS. As I said... Sledgehammer vs Bees. War is no longer between entrenched nation states, it is fluid guerilla style global organisations. You cannot nuke them. Your Sledgehammer becomes a rubber chicken. If we ever slide BACK to a world in which technologically advanced states are at each others throats and nukes become a realistic deterrent.. We are already completely ****ed.
If we were ever to launch a Trident nuclear weapon first in a preemptive strike, we are already ****ed. A pre-emptive strike against who??
Useless.