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2022-10-31 -Short Attention Span Theater-
In Stunning Strategy Reversal, Pentagon Will No Longer Rule Out Use Of Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear Threat
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Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 In other words, the Pentagon knew what Putin would do even before he did it and that defined the dramatic revision in US nuclear posture

Well don't break yer arm pattin' yerself on the back, hoss.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-10-31 05:33||   2022-10-31 05:33|| Front Page Top

#2 ...On the other hand, I think you can look at it this way: We're kinda-sorta-maybe lowering the bar for potential nuclear use, because the conventional forces might not be able to cut it any more.

Any similarities to the awful post-Vietnam years are, of course, entirely coincidental.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-10-31 06:58||   2022-10-31 06:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I recall during the Reagan rebuild one of the senior Army general officers lecturing. His point was we were to build back as effectively as we could to buy the man as much time as we could before facing the decision to resort to using nuclear weapons in a confrontation. Now it appears they're sliding back.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-10-31 07:47||   2022-10-31 07:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Spin it however you like, "no longer rule out" or "lowering the bar". Either way, discarding the no first use policy is big. Especially with the Brandon administration running the show. "We had to nuke them to preserve LGBQTWERTY rights!"
Posted by SteveS 2022-10-31 09:22||   2022-10-31 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 "We had to nuke them to preserve LGBQTWERTY rights!"

Well the Russians are pretty homophobic so it makes sense.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-31 09:50||   2022-10-31 09:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Who are they trying to intimidate right now that doesn't have nukes but might cause a lot of trouble?
Posted by ruprecht 2022-10-31 10:41||   2022-10-31 10:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Like the 1964? We were told not to vote for Goldwater because he was a warmonger and would start a nuclear war. We ended up with Lyndon Johnson as POTUS and the Viet Nam went on steroids.
Posted by JohnQC 2022-10-31 11:28||   2022-10-31 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 I've been feeling insecure ever since Biden finagled his way into the Oval Office and this doesn't help. I guess peace through strength is off the table when you scare the best people away from the military.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-10-31 12:24||   2022-10-31 12:24|| Front Page Top

#9 The military missed its recruitment goals by about 25%. Not getting the toxic males from flyover country who fight and win wars (sarc)?
Posted by JohnQC 2022-10-31 17:09||   2022-10-31 17:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Who are they trying to intimidate right now that doesn't have nukes but might cause a lot of trouble?

You, me, and the rest of the world’s Deplorables
Posted by Billy B  2022-10-31 17:15||   2022-10-31 17:15|| Front Page Top

#11 The Great Ukraine Grift comes to an end in eight days. Tick tock.

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Posted by Billy B  2022-10-31 17:39||   2022-10-31 17:39|| Front Page Top

#12 They are unlikely to nuke us deplorables though as we live in close proximity to the enlightened.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-10-31 17:47||   2022-10-31 17:47|| Front Page Top

#13 #11 Billy B., I hope you are right about sweeping the grifters out. I doubt the country would survive much more of this shite.
Posted by JohnQC 2022-10-31 23:36||   2022-10-31 23:36|| Front Page Top

#14 “We had to nuke them to preserve LGBQTWERTY rights!"

Richard Moore, Head of Mi6, agrees with you.

UK MI6 Spy Chief Says War in Ukraine is About LGBT Rights

The head of MI6, who includes his preferred pronouns in his Twitter bio, faced backlash for suggesting that a large part of the war in Ukraine was about “LGBT+ rights.”

Yes, really.

Richard Moore (he/him), leader of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, made the comments in a Twitter thread.

“With the tragedy and destruction unfolding so distressingly in Ukraine, we should remember the values and hard won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights. So let’s resume our series of tweets to mark #LGBTHM2022,” he wrote

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