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I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone (defector.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by CombatWombat@feddit.online to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then needing to type "truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump" into your web browser to see if he actually said that. Once there, you can see a post in which Trump did indeed threaten to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, stacked on top of an ad for a sketchy herbal supplement of some sort:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

We simple don't know how those systems are designed. Russia is "said to have" an automatic retaliation system "dead hand": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand

I do not trust that this thing is so reliable that a random surface nuclear strike will not trigger it.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

If nuclear or other bomb testing (to say nothing of their stupid war) hasn't set it off, i doubt this would. Its not that close. The map looks small but its not at all. The distance from Iran to Russia is some 3,000 miles or 4,800 some odd km. Thats roughly the same distance from California to Maine. An entire continent between them.

None of those signals are remotely likely to make it that far. If they do, they’d be hard to distinguish from background noise.