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Re:Deliberately optimizing for harm by p_j_w on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @02:30PM (#30702302)
>If every non-nuclear power is suddenly vulnerable to conventional attacks by any rouge state with nukes

There's nothing sudden about it, this has been the reality for decades now. We here in the US were on the other side of the matter in Iraq and arguably Vietnam. This is an old truth.

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Re:Deliberately optimizing for harm by the_af on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @03:35PM (#30702976)
Some in the US even argued for using nuclear weapons on Vietnam, out of frustration with the lack of progress with conventional war.

Imagine how that would have gone -- dropping nukes on the Vietnamese in order to "save" them from Communism.

Thankfully saner minds prevailed.

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Re:Deliberately optimizing for harm by IntrepidWorm on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @06:34PM (#30705007)
Yup. Henry Kissinger was a big part of that nonsense, along with a whole bunch of equally sinister stuff. The cluster bombings of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Korea were in many ways directly the result of his machinations.
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Re:Deliberately optimizing for harm by earleybird on Thursday March 17, 2022 @11:21PM (#30718443)
That reminds me . . . I need to watch Dr. Strangelove again.
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