Nuclear hellfire? Don’t you threaten me with a good time
TIE ME TO THE MISSILE AND FIRE ME AT MOSCOW
But they are le tired
Germany doesn’t have nukes tho. The nukes in the country are all American property.
Same goes for Belgium, Italy, and Turkey. But I won’t let that interfere with my appreciation for the meme.
Officially we don’t. We merely have American military bases with American planes and suspicious payloads that the government refuses to comment on.
I’ve wondered what that would mean in practice in different scenarios. If NATO command structure was atomized (RIP the city of Mons, no-one really liked you but thanks for the sacrifice o7), would the Belgian army make the call to fire ze missiles anyway? Or does the highest-ranked American make that call?
And missed off is the UK which has it’s own nukes^*
^* please ensure all targets are kept within a 500m radius of the firing submarine.
yay mutually assured destruction!
Russian oligarchs can’t spend their money in a nuclear wasteland. Putin’s gonna fall down some flights of stairs if he tries anything funny.
Also, the last time a Russian was told to deploy the nukes, he didn’t - which was good, because the order was a fluke.
Technically it want an order but malfunctioned alert system. He made a good guess that it’s just a glitch and neglected the protocol which saved millions and countries but he got a warning for not following the protocol… Just another day at military I suppose.
Context matters. If there are no escalations happening in world politics, why would there suddenly be an order to launch?
If the same glitch happened while Russian leaders are going hint hint nudge nudge towards their nuclear arsenal, would that operator do the same thing?
Maybe the worst thing about nukes isn’t that the button will be pressed on purpose, but that some damn fool thing will happen on accident and things happen before anyone can take stock of the situation.
This is why phrasing is so important… because I did not remember all that, but phrased myself so that you would do the web search…
…THE POWER~!
Thanks though ^; it’s pretty wild to think that almost on a fluke, we’d be living in nuclear winter right now.
Like histories dumbest and most impactful “whoopsie doodle”.
Also, the last time a Russian was told to deploy the nukes, he didn’t - which was good, because the order was a fluke.
WDYM by deploy?
