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Direct response to this https://www.newsweek.com/us-navy-monitoring-russian-warships-submarine-near-miami-1914616 and not much more than saber rattling
Speaking of saber rattling, I found this quote mildly amusing:
The flex notably comes amid persistent tensions with Russia, which has been rattling the nuclear saber lately
"lately"? I mean, if you're saying repetetive nuclear threats for 2 years + since starting a war with Ukraine, then sure?
Even Yeltsin made a few nuclear threats in his time.
And frankly those threats were more meaningful, with all the bravado of today Yeltsin's poor depressive Russia was much stronger militarily than the one we have.
The Media doesn't really allow itself a long memory in the current news cycle
Weird flex but ok.
businessinsider. What a bizarre rise and weird existence.
Pivots are easy and URLs ain't cheap.
I've never wanted to be wrong about anything more than WW3...
But I keep seeing all these articles that make it really look like WW3 is right around the corner...
Like, the entire point of SSBNs is to hide and no one knows where they are. Popping up just to flex is not a good sign. It's trading the actual point of their existence (no one knows where our nukes are) for a show of force.
It's not a rational choice to do this, Russia knows we have SSBNs all over the globe, they don't need to actually see one and know where it is
if it helps give you any comfort WW3 has always been around the corner in one way or another for as long as most of us have been alive. if you are reading articles about it. Then it's not going to start and if it does start it will all be over before you even hear about it. So try your best to just live the life you can.
I've been paying attention for decades, hell, I was in the military. I definitely paid more attention to geopolitics back then. Because even idle threats and shows of force directly effected my life.
Shits not how it used to be. It's a lot worse now. And people ignoring it just makes it keep getting worse.
I was in the military as well but other than voting and writing your local and regional Representatives. Which everyone should be doing no mater what. what do you suggest the avg person do to affect geopolitics other than stress ourselves out. Let me know what we should do and I will be there.
There is no morality in Foreign Policy it all about power be that soft or hard power. That machinery of that power goes back hundreds of years ago. Do you know what I worry about?
I worry about if my neighbors have enough food to eat. Do the teachers have the supplies to teach our kids the best they can. Building a community support network. These are things I can affect change.
The sad thing is climate change will take us out and cause more suffering than a true WW3 will ever do and I'm not just talking about the heat. I'm talking water wars that have already started happening. Supply chain issues caused by climate stopping people getting the right medicine another pandemic.
The rest is just Saber Rattling.
Let me know what we should do and I will be there.
I used to say "vote in the primaries"
But with the way the DNC has been acting, that's not enough anymore.
The solution isn't easy, and it won't be quick.
But the first step is Dem voters having higher standards than "not a Republican".
If you think it's too late now, then it's going to be too late in every future election.
The sad thing is climate change will take us out and cause more suffering than a true WW3 will ever do
Same solution.
Politicians don't have to be terrible, they can look out for citizens. But unless voters have standards, we'll keep settling for corrupt pieces of shit.
But the first step is Dem voters having higher standards than "not a Republican".
The prerequisite to that is to dismantle the NRA and purge the Republican party from power by vote or by force so they can't ever back another Hitler wannabe again. Then we can talk policy.
Lets say you're a firefighter.
You get called to 100 America Street.
You show up and that house is burnt down. It's just smoldering ruins. But 102 America St is still standing, their garage is on fire tho
Would you try to save 102? Or spray water on the remains of 100?
By the time 100 is completely extinguished, 102 might be too far gone.
So I'm saying ignore the lost cause for now. And focus on saving the only other house on the street.
Your example hinges on the implication that 100 America Street (ie the Republican Party) is stable and unable to cause further harm. In reality, 100 America Street is a blazing inferno, has billionaires in white hoods tossing cans of gasoline at it, and houses tons of high explosives that will absolutely level the entire neighborhood if/when it goes off.
Ignoring 100 to piss on 102 is only going to make a bad situation much, much, much worse. And at this point in time, one can't help but wonder whether anyone distracting from 100 America Street is doing so out of ignorance or malice.
i agree with all of that but everything you have listed is voting which I already said you should do without question and really should be the bare minimum of civic duty and as you have said not very effective. Plus that only affects domestic policy and you have to change a lot of domestic policy to even scratch the surface of changing foreign policy.
By no means am I saying give up but the more you look at foreign policy and spend your mental capacity. The more they distract you from changing the local that will change very slowly the domestic that will change the foreign. the powers at be want you terrified of the things you can't change to distract you from the things you can. so they stay in power.
It's the same thing with terrorism conventional warfare doesn't work against an irregular force. It takes slow moves at a very local level like like we leaned from FM 3-23 assuming you are US military, forgive me if you already not.
WW3 always around the corner? Sounds like Cold War 2 to me. But like you said, if it isn't, then it doesn't matter. It'll be over before we know it began.
yeah that's literally the definition of Cold War. The biggest lie we were told is the cold war ended, it didn't. Think about it the US defeated an economic system Reagan didn't give two shits about the Authoritarian Mob that took over after the fall. As long as capitalism won the US called it a victory. I'm no tanky by any means but it's plan as day where the US priority was when it came to the Soviet Union.
If Russia and the west start shooting eachother, one of four things will happen.
1 - Russia grows a brain and backs down when they horribly lose a conventional war. (Unlikely, unless someone takes command authority away)
2 - Russia kept their nuclear arsenal up to date, and a tiny remnant.of humanity gets to enjoy the Stone Age again. It won't hurt if you live in a city though.
3 - Only a tiny fraction of their nukes launch, and the west responds proportionally. A lot of people die, but at least we'll fix global warming.
I mean, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, everyone didn’t immediately go “welp time to start up our World War”. Nor did that happen when Nazi Germany got rolling on Anschluss.
If WW3 starts, we’ll eventually determine some specific event that got it rolling irrevocably in that direction. Could be the annexation of Crimea in 2014, or the Ukraine invasion in 2022, or something in the future (PRC annexing Taiwan - or trying to and failing; North Korea finally pulling the trigger and trying to finish the Korean War; India and Pakistan finally coming to nuclear blows; any number of other things). Nobody will know until it’s already history.
Texas state government attempts to annex Mexico out of nowhere, fails miserably, and is subsequently taken back by mexico.
Canada makes an over-land/ice/ocean bridge and invades Russia with cavalry.
Somehow, Palpatine returns.
Texas state government attempts to annex Mexico out of nowhere, fails miserably, and is subsequently taken back by mexico.
They can have it if they want it
Yeah I was surprised when I listened to hardcore history about it. It was like 4 weeks from the assassination to the declaration of war.
I feel like you’re missing the point of my comment
No, I'm not.
Knowing they're there and seeing they're there are very different things. Don't dismiss the psychological value of the latter.
Sending messages like this isn’t uncommon.
Back in the early 1960’s my dad had a high level security clearance at a defense contractor. He was one of a handful of people who knew the full details of a project to “identify, track, and destroy a hostile satellite”. This was in direct response to the Soviet Union launching Sputnik. The President of the US was another one of the handful that knew the full details of the project.
After a lot of R&D work a test was performed. A rocket was launched from somewhere in the South Pacific. It tracked a derelict satellite used as a target, closed on it, and disabled it. At that point my dad’s involvement on the project ended.
A few months later while at home he & my mom were listening to a speech by the President. In the middle of the speech he announced to the American public that the USA now had the ability to identify, track, and destroy hostile satellites. My mom says all the color drained from his face but she had no idea why since the entire project was still highly classified. In fact when my dad got to work the next day there was a memo waiting on his desk telling him that he was not to confirm, deny, or even discuss anything he may have heard on the radio or tv the previous night.
The President didn’t make that announcement for the benefit of the American people. He was sending a very public message to the leadership of the USSR.
(And my dad never told this story until well after the 25 year time frame established for routine declassification of such materials.)
The good thing about it is you are wrong. So take comfort in that.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A US Navy nuclear-powered ballistic submarine popped up in the Norwegian Sea this week in a rare show of force.
Multi-Domain Readiness in action 🚁🌊🔱 @USNavy 🇺🇸 guided-missile cruiser #USSNormandy (CG 60) and ballistic missile submarine #USSTennessee (SSBN 734) steam alongside in the #NorwegianSea while a P-8A Poseidon and E-6B Mercury fly overhead, June 23, 2024. pic.twitter.com/8Uttvmkny9
Like the Air Force E-4B "Nightwatch," the Navy plane is sometimes called the "Doomsday plane," as it can relay National Command Authority directives to US submarines as part of the "Take Charge and Move Out" mission and fulfill "Looking Glass" obligations, which involves directing nuclear forces if the ground-based options are gone.
The US has made similar revelations in other parts of the world with its Ohio-class cruise-missile submarines, which carry 154 land-attack Tomahawks.
Russia made a show of having one of these vessels, the first-in-class Severodvinsk, surface off Norway in July 2022, and another one of these submarines, the Kazan, was spotted in Cuba earlier this month during a five-day official visit.
Other Russian vessels, such as the Admiral Gorshkov frigate, joined the Kazan during the visit ahead of an air and maritime exercise in the Caribbean.
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