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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 2 years ago by ramble81 to c/showerthoughts

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Was just watching Jack Ryan Season 3 and seeing the display of force and their movements causes some interesting dissonance given what we know now.

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[–] afraid_of_zombies 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depends on so many factors. Sometimes the external enemy doesn't unite people at all. Sometimes it becomes a race of who can suck up to them so when the war is over they can run things. Traitors and collaboration.

Also I am betting if there was a threat it would be over in hours. As they hit us with a million nukes while our governments spend the last few minutes wondering why we pointed out best gear at each other instead of up.

Or heck they could be creative and just block out our sun for a decade and use bunker busting bombs looking for infrared to kill off the stranglers. That way they have a nice non-nuclear wasteland to work with.

[–] ramble81 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, if that's the goal they'll just use Neutrino Bombs (look them up, they're crazy what they're designed to do)

[–] afraid_of_zombies 1 points 2 years ago

I saw a discussion about this once and they argued that they didn't have the range leaving all the rural people still around. Plus the humans who are in nuclear proof bunkers/submarines have nukes to get revenge when you land.

Blocking the sun works better. You can't just hide from the earth freezing. Even if you survive somehow you are giving away your location via infared. Also, you could still have some functional ecosystem left with the plants and animals that can withstand a true hibernation and the deep sea life.