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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (325511)	3/8/2025 2:08:59 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364399

>> >You seem to have lost the gist of MAD. I see it in the same light as Reagan did in his famous speech in 1983, in which he referred to it as a "suicide pack". He is said to have commented, "I don't think there's any morality in a system that says we're at peace because we're threatening to blow each other up". Whether he made that statement is subject to some question as it appears to have been a private remark, the sentiment is right for Reagan. He didn't not trust MAD as a legitimate long-term way forward. It seems like a stop-gap that works until it doesn't. Reality is that one never knows if Putin's dying words might be, "Blow those fuckers off the map". So, MAD is better than nothing but we truly don't know how much security it actually provides on any given day. If he were going to do that, it would have made more sense to do it when Biden was president and in full La-La Land than it would today with a real Commander in Chief.