Obama and the Emperor's New Maginot Missile Shield plus Zaz with "Je veux"

Obama ordered activation of the so-called missile shield to protect America from Russian nuclear missiles and that happened in May of last year.  (CNN:  U.S. launches long-awaited European missile defense shield)

We've been getting mightily patronized by some Facebook Q-libs who cling as assiduously to anti-Soviet thinking as to their overstuffed retirement plans which likely began not so long before the Soviet Union fell apart and they conveniently forgot about it.

Any upset to the balance of power has historically almost inevitably led to war.  America did that with the missile shield and yet it calls Russia the aggressor.  There's no need to cite / reiterate anything since you have seen that for yourself.

Note:  that patronization is an illustration of one of the specific dangers of social networks insofar as typically they only hang about with those who agree with them.  I know with every word the regulars will jump my bones faster than Rick Perry can schedule a hanging (and later swear he didn't know the man was innocent).

Reviewing the arithmetic:  there are fifteen hundred strategic nuclear weapons on each side and presumably most or all fly in the first round since there won't be a second one.  In-flight, those ICBMs split into multiples since they're MIRVs for Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles or something of that nature.  Each of those independent weapons has a capacity of three to four megatons and there are four or more for each ICBM so it's not fifteen hundred nukes coming down on America but rather six thousand or so, more or less at the same time.

If that's not enough goodness, the game with the nuke subs is some number of them are attack subs and these ones are intended to take out the Russian ballistic subs; that term is in the absence of a better one for the subs which pack about two dozen nuclear missiles.  The general thinking is American attack subs will take out the Russian ballistic subs before their attack subs can destroy the American ballistic subs.  Call it ten ballistic missile subs on each side so there's another two hundred and forty live nukes into the mix.

And you seriously think the Emperor's New Maginot Missile Shield will keep you alive through that?

Sure and please do tell me again because it's hard to stop laughing.


Note:  the Maginot Line was a barrier the French constructed on their border with Germany which was ostensibly a defense.  The German Army just went around it.

In case you look for any kind of competence in the matter, an American nuke sub nearly sank not so long ago because they somehow managed to flood it yet the vessel survived and got back to port.  I know this happened because I know someone who was on it.  He now has a desk job and, I swear to Christ this is true, he's considering a post-military engagement as an American merc because vets come out of the military with almost zero civilian skills.

Ed:  what difference should it make if you swear to Christ when you're as heathen as the day is long?

Quite a bit since the regulars have never seen me invoke that when it was not true.  The invocation means a great deal to some and truth means a great deal to me.  Therefore, I treat it with respect.

The delusion of this ignis fatuus America is carrying about may well be the most destructive force on the planet because it encourages the false belief a nuclear war is survivable.

Ed:  yet again, the Latin poseur!

That time was just to be a bitch about it (larfs).  That kind of pose is the only thing online mass debaters understand.  The term means Will o' Wisp or, more accurately, a swamp fire and the original meaning in medieval Latin was 'foolish fire' so, in combination, that's perfect to describe the situation.

Since we're fed-up to the gills with the Pentagon and online nitwits who lick their own balls as one of their few forms of entertainment, here's Zaz:

Who can listen to her and be angry about anything.