Comment on Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' missile shield for US

Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Money will go to businesses who will get him a cut.

  All a big grift. Same with that dumbass wall.

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If it succeeds, it’s preparation for when the MAGAzi Taliban start WW3.

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• JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If the people are not scared, they will not accept the killing of civilians during weddings as an acceptable cost for “peace and stability” or “security” or whatever.

  America is a terrorist state.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sure but my actual point was that they’re not fearmongering about this. It’s just come out of nowhere, there’s no national campaign about how the chinese are putting missiles in puerto rico or w/e. It’s just completely random.

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• Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Russia, China, and North Korea are states with nukes pointed at the US. The US has nukes pointed at them as well, of course. There is the possibility for weapons (conventional or otherwise) to be deployed closer to the US as well by many states. I’m not saying I agree with spending money on this nor the message it sends, but the idea is not completely baseless.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    US already has a nuclear defense system called Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD).

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ballistic missile defense on it’s own makes sense, and most nuclear powers have a program for it in place (and like BrikoX said, the US is among them). My point is that this idea has just come out of nowhere, there’s been no threat from any nuclear power, no talk about how being nukable makes us weak, no fearmongering about immigrants smuggling nukes in across the borders, nothing. It just showed up suddenly.

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    • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      He’s jealous of the Israeli one and wants some kind of military accomplishment to point to. It’s okay of his strongman schtick that some idiots somehow fall for

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah but why this? It’s really come out of nowhere. Iron Dome hasn’t been in the press recently, at least as far as I can tell. It’s really weird, normally there’s a cause (if not a reason…) for his insanity…

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