Comment by TurdF3rguson

11 hours ago

The Soviets were parking nukes in Cuba in striking distance of the White House. If that's not legitimately terrifying to you, I just don't know.

Which directly followed the USA stationing Jupiter missiles in Turkey with the range to strike Moscow. As part of the mutual climb down from the missile crisis the USA removed the Jupiters, as both sides then understood the wisdom of avoiding hot brinkmanship

  • It's genuinely amazing how few people in the USA appear to be aware of what you have written.

    It'd be nice to put jingoism aside for a change.

    • americans are the most brainwashed people on earth when you consider how naïve of their own propaganda they are

Not anymore than the US being able to strike worldwide to this very moment. They are the only country that has used nuclear bombs against civilians.

The big problem is having one country be able to do it without deterrents and with impunity. MAD is a good thing, if anyone will have those things at all.

  • One of those things is scarier to American school children and their teachers than the other.

    • Objectively, nukes have killed 0 American school children and their teachers while legal constitutional American gun owners have killed thousands every year.

      The main natural predator of Americans is other Americans.

    • School children aren’t easily scared by boogie men, but maybe they should be. The Iranian girls found this out.

    • scariest thing for American School children and their teachers is the way that the second amendment is administered.