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Ok, what do you think if a nuke went off in D.C.? Idk what most people would do honestly, probably still go into work the next day?
I don't understand what people think they would otherwise do. Say you lived in Ukraine, Like 2.5% of their population are active duty. The other 97.5% of the population goes to work/school/etc the next day.
If your honest with yourself everyone age 1-17 and 35+ nothing too much would really change. More jobs would pop up manufacturing drones and such. Amount of males between 18-35 would decrease some, and for the most part life would go on. Oh and them wanting to add $1.5 trillion more dollars to the military budget would pass really quickly. If the U.S. put a deployment as large as Vietnam was these days, we wouldn't even have 1% active duty.
Its show up to work or get fired and jobs are hard to come by. I dont know about the rest of you but I sure do like food.
911 will be a decent reference. Then that fear will be capitalized for state control and power consolidation, privacy invasion, ultimately making the world a worse place. The same playbook