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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal
You're sure giving this guy a lot of credit for being reasonable and sane.
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Well I think it's more than obvious that a first strike with a nuclear weapon during peace time would be the most horrifying thing mankind would ever witness.
I don't think he's stupid enough to ignore that
his reign and his own person would be totally annihilated within minutes or very few hours at best following this act.
I think his military leaders are not stupid enough to ignore all the arsenal the U.S. and their allies have:
Nuclear warhead thrown from everywhere: planes, ships & submarines, ICBM, maybe satellites (even if prohibited) and that's without other means we ignore...
The U.S. still has by far the best military technology whether it is reconnaissance satellites, missiles that are capable of delivering an underground nuclear strike, all kind of spies systems, data processing means, etc.
My personal belief is that he's doing this as a power demonstration over his people and to show (everything is about appearance here) that he could handle any threat.
But he knows (at least his close advisors know) that it wouldn't take long before being completely annihilated in a full scale total war.