Mastodawn

The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else's thread. I wanted to share it without risking the other threadfolk getting backlash.

Concerning whether or not US-Americans know and/or care that yesterday could easily have been the start of WWIII/a global nuclear event:

A lot of us care and are aware. Enough that we were checking the news every few mins yesterday & dreading the approach of 8pm EST.

Please don't paint all US-Americans with the same brush of dismissive judgment....

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grrl_aex

@courtcan

MAD still exists. Now that Russia and the US are, essentially, allies, the risk of a catastrophic global nuclear exchange is virtually non-existent. Either country could use tactical nukes against a non nuclear power and other than receiving universal political and likely economic condemnation, that use would be extremely unlikely to elicit a nuclear response.

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