Hypersonic HAWC missile flies, but details are kept hidden

Re:Hypersonic HAWC missile flies, but details are kept hidden by dotancohen on Thursday September 30, 2021 @08:19AM (#28705470)

  > China knows the dynamic, the likely escalation route

There is no likely escalation route. To escalate to full nuclear war requires what we would today call "a crazy man" in power. The US has had exactly one of those in the past 30+ years, and he's no longer in office.

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Re:Hypersonic HAWC missile flies, but details are kept hidden by varjag on Friday October 01, 2021 @03:30AM (#28715665)

Oh, that must be why the US famously retaliated to 9/11 by also destroying 3 buildings in Tora-Borah.

If China nukes several thousand U.S. servicemen, your family (and probably you) would be on the streets demanding blood.

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Re:Hypersonic HAWC missile flies, but details are kept hidden by dotancohen on Friday October 01, 2021 @05:53AM (#28716453)

I've never even heard of Tora-Borah, so maybe I'm ignorant.

But for one thing, I wouldn't say that an authority that authorizes the destruction of three buildings would authorize a nuclear strike. For another, destroying three buildings in some village in Afghanistan does not sound like and "escalation" in response to the half dozen or so buildings destroyed in New York on the date you specify, and the damage to the Pentagon, and the loss of four aircraft and all souls on board, and I don't know how many more on the ground.

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Re:Hypersonic HAWC missile flies, but details are kept hidden by varjag on Friday October 01, 2021 @06:45AM (#28716741)

Sorry that was irony. My point was precisely that American vengeance knew no bounds. There is zero chance that a nuclear strike on an American asset will not be met in kind.

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