Post by ayatollah on Mar 14, 2018 2:25:15 GMT
Bae, I'm pretty sure that the definition of "existential threat" is a country that has enough warheads to convert your entire nation into a pile of radioactive soot and is run by a lawless autocrat who loves to brag about all the new and exotic indefensible ways he is developing to use them on you. The other alternative is that there is no such thing possible as an existential threat to the US in your worldview, in which case why even bring it up? Hakuna matata!
That reminds me of someone...someone famous...oh, yeah, Barack Obama and all the Dems in the 2012 election making fun of Romney.
So, just to review, guy on the radio suggesting Christians should step up and foster/adopt kids = existential threat; guy with 2nd biggest nuclear arsenal on Earth engaging in bellicose ranting, hacking the shit out of our networks, killing his opposition at home and abroad with absolute impunity, slinging nerve gas about the English countryside, invading countries with phantom quasi-armies =/= existential threat.
Got it.
Second biggest arsenal of nukes on Earth. Who's got the first?
This isn't a big deal, we've lived with nukes pointed at each other for what, 70 years? As long as we're reasonable and can talk to each other it'll be fine. The only way the US/Russia nuke balance tips into world war 3 is if our leaders can't talk to theirs becuase we've made such conversations politically toxic.
That nightmare, or swamping our demographics with third world migrants, are the only two ways the existence of western civilization ends.