America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack

Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack by wefarrell on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:12PM (#28687595)

And who exactly is going to attack the US with a missile?

North Korea and Iran aren't developing ballistic missile's so they can launch an unprovoked attack against the US, they developed them so they can respond to a US invasion and keep their regimes in place. Russia's military is in shambles. The idea that China would attack their largest trading partner (who is capable of responding with at least as much force) is absurd.

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Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack by int0x2e on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:31PM (#28687775)

You're correct - no rational actor would attack the US. Now, if only I could trust that there would always only be rational actors I could sleep well at night.

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Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack by gremlinsinc on Thursday September 30, 2021 @03:33AM (#28704007)

China has like ... millions of prisoners, presumably being brain-washed and worse... wouldn't be hard to maybe coax them into becoming spies and immigrating here, and just causing turmoil.

Starting forest fires ... or doing some sort of home-made drone attacks against infrastructure (power grids, gas-lines, trains, etc) ... all china needs is for us to decline, not full scale war.

That's just what china might do... we've got plenty of enemies... but I still think the military is way bloated, and doesn't need half the $$ it has, because if it were guerilla tactics like this, it'd be a hard fought battle no matter how much money is thrown at it.

There's way more vulnerabilities facing us with climate change, etc than missile strikes IMHO...

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Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack by maxerickson on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:22PM (#28688608)

Worrying won't stop a missile attack, might as well sleep.

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Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack by thriftwy on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:18PM (#28687663)

Russia's military is OK.

It's not 2001.

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Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack by fragmede on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:26PM (#28687735)

While you don't necessarily have to buy into "they hate our freedom" level of rhetoric, it would be insane to suggest that America has no enemies that are a threat and thus is impervious to attack. What the US did to Iraq in the wake of 9/11 is shameful, but that 9/11 happened negates the idea that the US doesn't have enemies that would like to have this capability.

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Re:America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack by wefarrell on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:29PM (#28687765)

That's a straw man argument - no one is suggesting the US has no enemies that are a threat.

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