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2022-10-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Fred Reed's 'guess' - America's Unable To ‘Absorb' A Russian First Nuclear Strike

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-30 08:07|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 By day four, people would be hunting each other with knives to get their food. By the end of the second week, people would be eating each other. Literally. This happens in famines.

Nearly there now.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-30 08:12|| 2022-10-30 08:12|| Front Page Top

#2 This WILL happen sometime, maybe not here but somewhere. To be honest I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened already. It won't be Russia, China, (probably not) Iran, NK, but some crazy (Islamic) group.

Posted by Sonny Black 2022-10-30 08:28|| 2022-10-30 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Remember when the DC deep state were absolutely terrified that Trump was going to start a nuclear war? And this was the biggest danger to civilization that we had ever faced?

Now they're salivating at the thought of starting a nuclear war. And being against nuclear holocaust and the destruction of the world means you must be on Putin's payroll. It's grounds to censor you.

Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-10-30 08:37|| 2022-10-30 08:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Missile defenses are meaningless except as money funnels to the arms industry.

Untrue. They are great at stopping one to a few missiles like from North Korea or a long range cruise missile attack on Guam from China.

They are not meant to stop 5,000 ballistic warheads converging on the US. There are simply to few of them and they aren't designed to track and go after that many targets.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-30 09:23|| 2022-10-30 09:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Safeguard was designed to hose incoming MIRVs. Congress de-activated it the day it became operational.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-30 09:29|| 2022-10-30 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 The error in this article is a lack of understanding of the power of a nuclear weapon
ONE 1.0 megaton nuke on Chicago would erase downtown and all the suburbs for 10 miles in all directions

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-10-30 09:41|| 2022-10-30 09:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Dont need to bomb a city. Just stop the food trucks from moving.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2022-10-30 09:49|| 2022-10-30 09:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Elie's will or have developed human meat gourmet delights. Tastes like chicken. Aborted babies ,fine dining. Home delivery within 30 minuets. Stranded Japanese lacking supplies simply went to prisoners to carve out parts as needed. No refrigeration so you removed what you could to allow prisoner to live.

Posted by Dale 2022-10-30 10:47|| 2022-10-30 10:47|| Front Page Top

#9 OK, forgot the T.

Posted by Dale 2022-10-30 10:51|| 2022-10-30 10:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Just stop the food trucks from moving.

I believe the 'brains' in Da Capital are working on that now without having to resort to a nuclear exchange.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-10-30 11:18|| 2022-10-30 11:18|| Front Page Top

#11 #6 here is your tool.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-10-30 11:22|| 2022-10-30 11:22|| Front Page Top

#12 There's no actual need to target large, Democratically controlled cities. They are destroying themselves.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-30 11:42|| 2022-10-30 11:42|| Front Page Top

#13 This came so close to happening 27 October 1962. See this.

Posted by Gromble Dribble4342 2022-10-30 14:50|| 2022-10-30 14:50|| Front Page Top

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