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i liked 2014 when dan and phil were on the radio, wandavision was on tv, and we weren’t living under the threat of ww3
Meh. I graduated high school in '89. WWIII could have hit any day. Get on my level! :)
Honestly, I never thought we’d be here again and this threat is the strongest I’ve heard from any nation-state leader.
Im no miltary strategist. But shouldnt submarine operations be… like secret?
What should be a secret? That nuclear (propulsion or arms?) submarines are in appropriate regions? I should hope that that is always the case.
I wonder if that means he ordered them to be in the same places they were already planning to be…
It’s like Israel’s nuclear capability. They got nukes. I know it. You know it. But in diplomatic terms, no one says it out loud. In diplomatic-speak, this is a fucking in-your-face threat.
Put it this way, in diplo-speak “condemn” means, “We fittin’ to throw down! SOON!” This threat is an order of magnitude above “condemn”.
Do you know where “appropriate regions” are?
Considering this, I would normally treat anything said about secret weapons a bluff. But given who’s talking, I’ve no way to tell if it’s stupidity instead
Boomers (ballistic missile subs) whole raison d’etre is to be the most powerful weapon platform of all time, be anywhere, be undetectable. MAD is predicated on not knowing from where the punch might come. Trump just said, “Sup bitch! We put boomers in your back yard and we’re not afraid to use them!”
Of all the shit Trump has done, this makes my Gen X gut drop. He’s playing with world-ending apocalypse. The height of the Cold War didn’t see nation states fuck around like this. Never in my life, or history as I know it, has an American President or Soviet/Russian leader stated anything so provocative.
Hadn’t been too worried about Russia’s nuclear arsenal, but it exists and Ruskies are paranoid bastards. This isn’t brinksmanship, nor Nixon’s madman theory, this is a toddler poking a rabid dog with a stick. And that dog is already starving, ravening and scared shitless.
“Yeah, we have subs in the Pacific and Eastern Med. I know it. You know it. But now I’m telling you, telling the world.” That’s a fucking threat. In diplomatic terms this states, “Blink and I’ll fucking end you.”
Never in my life, or history as I know it, has an American President or Soviet/Russian leader stated anything so provocative.
I heard that live! Mom had the “transistor” radio on in the kitchen, as every day. Everyone new it was a joke, about instantly. Still, WILD! Reagan said some crazy shit but we were used to his jokes by then.
Was going to post a post-assassination joke, but he made quite a few!
LOL the end of that news segment
Most officials said “no comment” though one did speculate the Russian might have been drunk.
This world really is wild.
I remember back when Trump got caught with all those classified docs there was a story about him showing off some about submarines to a rich Australian dude. There was a comment about how everyone in the navy knows that you do not talk about subs. Everything about them is top secret, and if it were anyone else there would be very severe consequences.
Yeah. Also, happy cake day!
Not enough capital letters.
True. It doesn’t seem to be real if it doesn’t have capital letters in it.
And the lack of insults.
Trumps gonna get some of our ships sunk before we execute him for treason
Only if we let him
I really should get around to watching Wag The Dog.
Before it’s too late.
I can’t believe this idiot was voted to be in charge of ALL the nukes. What the fuck is wrong with you people?!
Oh, lots of things.
We started with a genocide of the native people and then the wealthy land owners revolted against paying taxes.
We have a representative government
if it was representative you’d have more than two parties
The 4d chess is looking too obvious at this point, right?
Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances.
Is he… Is he talking about himself?
He isn’t that self aware, so no.
Well shit
That’s what makes it funny. That’s what makes it sad
If we do get WW3, can the world be the winner this time? Multiple superpowers taken out and governments being restructured in the resulting power vacuum, rocketing underprivileged countries into positions of global influence?
Nah, probably too wild to happen.
I can’t wait for WWIII to start because of a corrupt pedophile and not the 10 political wars and genocides going on right now.
Why on Earth would you broadcast where you’re putting your nuclear subs? The entire point is for enemies not to know where they are. I mean I assume he’s lying, but fuck.
Did he? So you know where „appropriate regions“ are? And you think they haven’t been there before?
Eh, it makes sense as a deterrent. And he didn’t specify where they are. But I don’t think he knows “nuclear submarines” are not nuclear armed submarines. They are just nuclear-powered, meaning they don’t consume oxygen to run (no fuel burned) and don’t need to resurface for a long time.
“Nuclear-powered submarine” is basically redundant these days for the US, since they all are and have been since 2007. It can be safely assumed that a reference to a “Nuclear Submarine” in this context is one that is nuclear-armed.
We’re talking about trump here though…
How does a submarine release the Epstein files?
WW3 back on the menu fam!
Is it distracting from Epstein and his pedo rape island?. Then it’s on the menu
Yes exactly! Anything Donny does or says is just a distraction from the list being released.
Dude fuck all of these people.
Thank you for your attention on this matter
He ends it like a passive-aggressive email.
That’s one of his favorite phrases
I suspect that this isn’t the real Donald Trump.
Will the real DJT please stand up, please stand down, please fuck off.
