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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Letstakealook@lemm.ee 2 weeks agoRussia, 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.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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…
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
He’s been trying to pretend he’s brokering peace between Gaza and Israel, and the dome made a lot of headlines at the beginning of the genocide. If he’s been talking to netayahu, it’s bound to have come up.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
US already has a nuclear defense system called Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD).