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You're not being patronizing?
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Uh, nope. After reading it it seems that nukes are something that saved humanity. The irony is ridiculous though.
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That's really unnecessary.
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I concur, and I have removed it.
But I have been saying the same thing for several pages of this topic now. You're saying that just now you suddenly agree with me? Does this mean that I should only make short posts that don't cite so much historical evidence? |
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Well, not exactly. I have been thinking about the deterrance theory for months now. It really made a lot of sense. Then there's you. A guy that seems to know more about things than i do. Reading about deterrance is what convinced me though, not you.
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Also, if you're even able to read any of that literature at 14, I envy you. I first got exposed to this stuff as a undergraduate, and a lot of it was Greek when I first tried to read it. I didn't think they assigned that kind of stuff in high school. |
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Nobody told me to read those books. Not even teachers. Hell, in History classes we are still reading about Napoleon, the French Revolution and the American Revolution.
And i knew about the deterrance theory. I knew about the theory but i didn't think it was a good theory. Reading about it again, it seems that it worked. Both sides in the Cold War were trying to fight eachother without actually going to war. Both NATO and the Soviet Union knew they couldn't fight eachother directly. Why is that? Because of nukes. Nobody wanted to fight eachother. Because if one side attacked, the attacking side would get oblitoreted by the Attacked side. It would be suicide. See? I get it now. It just finally entered my head that deterrence works. |
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And because the Soviets knew that even if they managed to sweep aside the armed forces without being nuked into oblivion, there were still thousands of police departments and millions of private gun owners ready and willing to fight the good fight. Our Second Amendment was one of the things that scared them the most.
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Then there's the geographic matter. The United States is hard to invade by virtue of the fact that it's in North America (this, we often forget, is the biggest reason why America has almost never faced invaders on its shores). A "Red Dawn" situation involving the Soviets' Latin American allies would be possible, but only if it were done through Mexico, and that wasn't going to happen. |
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