Doomsday Clock Advanced Another 2 minutes?

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As long as they don't take away the guns. Lol.

Yes, as any NRA member knows, you shoot the neutrons coming to get you from the mushroom clouds with your second amendment rights.

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That's the usual chest pounding. Although Trump may be too stupid to know that.

But half of my life so far I spent during the cold war, with the Iron curtain just being some 20 miles removed from my home. The rhetoric was always the same, the facts too. I'm not sure how many times over both super powers could destroy earth with their arsenal of madness at the height of their powers. But it's still many times over.

I was a bit concerned over Reagan and his rhetoric, but Reagan wasn't as lose a cannon as this one is. He also didn't surround himself with outright nutjobs but with professionals and the whole republican party was a different entity in the early 80ies.

Except during the Cold War, a case can be made on either side that the opposing side represent such an fundamentally inimical world that a severe existential threat to one's own social and economic foundation already exist and nuclear parity actually moderates the threat. Currently the only threat posed by modernization of Russian nuclear arsenal is a minute regional diminution of the proponderant US global influence. Unlike the USSR, Russia has neither the ideology, nor the economic and industrial capability, or indeed the growth potential to ever acquire those capabilities, to follow up its regional gains and parley it into hemispheric, let alone global, power.

In other words trump is prepared to put america's continued existence in jeopardy to sustain what is fundamental unsustainable marginal interests of little consequence to fundamental American interests.

In fact, his statement that NATO members ought to pay for protection advanced russian geopolitical interests far more than ever could unanswered unilateral Russian nuclear modernization.