BRK: Trump to pull U.S out of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

[Person Man]

I wonder how much this risks raising the threat of nuclear war..

[Person Man]

I wonder how much this risks raising the threat of nuclear war..

Trump probably thinks we can win a nuclear war.

Though that outcome is potentially far worse than a moderate MAD situation, where the world doesn't die but civilization and the ecosystem are alive albeit crippled for hundreds, if not thousands of years. In the former situation, I can see a "won" Trumpian nuclear war having the same ultimate results as the one at the end of the Turner Diaries. That is, a world that is heavily depopulated and the only civilization remaining are the "victors". All other civilizations and peoples  have either been exterminated or have devolved into small bands of hunter-gatherer bands of mutated creatures that live in irradiated deserts that were once the cities, forests, and farmland of their ancestors.

[Person Man]

This is great for Russia in two ways. It strengthens their prestige and capabilities and casts their puppet as not their puppet. It's like burning down the house after you murdered the deadbeat renters inside and made it into some sort of electrical thing to the insurance company. Russian lightning!

But two can play this game. We can still blame Russia AND Trump for starting the same war while simultaneously claiming we don't want the war.