<div dir="auto">Every day now is the Cuban missile crisis. The shock of having nukes close enough to hit you eventually wears off when a nuke can hit anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world, and turns from shock into...just a general malaise...<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 6, 2022, 7:59 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">As terrible as that scenario is for the world, I also worry about a miscalculation that results in nuclear launches that at best wipe out a few major cities on each side before it is over, or at worst a global nuclear holocaust.<div><br></div><div>I'm a bit baffled as to why there seem to be a large number of people these days (including in the press and the government) who aren't worried about a nuclear conflagration between the US and Russia (again, involving a miscalculation over Ukraine) or the US and China over Taiwan. They act like ICBM nuke launches from a desperate actor or due to miscalculation in strategy are no longer a real possibility, which scares me.</div><div><br></div><div>I grew up in the 80s when everyone expected the end of the world as a distinct possibility at any moment. I'm sure my betters on the list also remember the Cuban missile crisis as well.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 6:34 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] commies vs marxists was: RE: chinese fires, was:RE: book review<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…The Pentagon, unfortunately, does not share your optimism. Best case scenario is likely that we destroy all of the chip plants:<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Pentagon, Chinese analysts agree US can’t win in Taiwan Strait<br>US mulls ‘scorched earth’ strategy for Taiwan instead of defense<br>By DAVID P. GOLDMAN<br>DECEMBER 6, 2022<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dylan do ponder the following scenario: the US military, having been running wargames and simulations, are well aware of the odds. With a stubborn aversion to losing irreplaceable carriers and…like… getting killed, and knowing that the US government has way bigger problems on its collective mind than a mere planet-threatening war on the far side of the Pacific, find a way to keep the carriers out of harm’s way.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Taiwan military, well aware of these war games and sims, recognize they must scuttle those chip fabs. A grenade is tossed into each manufacturing machine. The buildings remain standing but no computer chips will go out any time soon.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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