[conspire] OT (geopolitics) So much winning

[Steve Litt]

Josef Grosch said on Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:11:48 -0800

>On 2/22/25 08:18, Steve Litt wrote:
>> Rev Anon said on Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:08:12 -0800
>>  
>>> We were warned for years.  Back when the voting rights bill got
>>> zeroed by an ass senator from WV, we knew this was coming.  Greg
>>> Palast documented the millions who got their ballots purged putting
>>> Republicans in charge.  (there's a little known government agency
>>> that counts such things as purged ballots)  C'est la vie. Democracy
>>> is over get used to it.  Perhaps the view looks dark but we can
>>> hope the west coast will unite and secede from the fascist new fed?
>>>  West coast exit!  Get your pitch-forks ready!  
>> This is a serious question: Does California have nuclear weapons? If
>> you do, you can secede at will. If you don't, LA, SF, Long Beach and
>> San Diego will get nuked the moment of secession. It's not necessary
>> to have 5MT city busters, if you can deliver 40KT to Texas cities,
>> that's good enough for a peaceful secession.
>>  
>tl;dr
>
>Sorry, this ignores a simple fact, nuclear explosions tend to do
>serious damage to the place that the explosion happened, not to
>mention the people. The value of California is the 40 million people,
>the infrastructure, and the value AKA GDP it generates. If California
>were a nation it would have the 4th or 5th largest economy, depend on
>the numbers you are looking at. A couple of nuclear blasts and we have
>an economy that would make Somalia look prosperous. The ports at Long
>Beach and Los Angeles have over 17 million TEUs 
>(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit) coming 
>through every year. Take that out and a major piece of the US economy 
>goes to shit.

Do you seriously think the Republicans would care one bit about taking
out the 4th largest economy? If they can't have California, nobody will.
They regularly operate against the needs of the United States, this
would be no different.

Hence my question: Does California have nuclear weapons and a delivery
mechanism?

SteveT

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