The nuclear arsenal Trump currently controls includes some 1,700 deployed nuclear warheads, most of them with an explosive force of 100 to 800 kilotons, six to 50 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. If used in a large-scale attack on Russia, they could kill more than 100 million people in the first afternoon. And a Russian counterattack would kill at least that many here in the United States.
Those who survived the initial fires and explosions would find themselves living in a wasteland that we cannot imagine. None of the things we need to keep ourselves alive would be available. There would be no electric grid, no cell phones, no internet, no food distribution system, no system for distributing gasoline or natural gas or heating oil, no law and order. And in the months following the initial attacks most of those who survived those attacks would also die—from starvation, epidemic disease, radiation sickness, and exposure to the elements.
The disaster would not be confined to the US and Russia. The smoke from burning cities in both countries would loft enormous quantities of smoke into the upper atmosphere, blocking out the sun and dropping temperatures across the planet an average of 18°F. In the interior regions of North America and Eurasia temperatures would drop 45-50°F, food production would plummet, and the vast majority of the human race would starve. In the first two years alone, three-quarters of humanity—6 billion people—would die.
Also see this great podcast episode about this from It Could Happen Here with Robert from Behind The Bastards.
You didn’t need a shitty AI image for this. It only weakens your stance when you use the fascists’ tools
That is an image cited from Trump that is specifically relevant to the article as journalistic context.
This is not a lazy AI picture like it first appears, I get the kneejerk reaction I had the same one but it makes perfect sense here.
Hard disagree. Using his images legitamizes using AI. If this was an article discussing his massive hard on for AI images then maybe, but you’re discussing nuclear arsenals here not his AI images
You want the article to not show the image that it’s talking about, that illustrates his dangerously cavalier attitude towards nuclear annihilation? I feel like the president posting images of himself with his finger on the button is relevant info.
For real.
“Fuck them for posting an AI image that contextualizes the article.”
Foaming at the mouth to say fuck AI under every post with anything makes it seem like you’re an AI that just detects generated images and stirs up shit in the comments
Yes, because he’s shown an obsession with nukes several times before. That can be discussed without slapping the image large front and center. Even just a link or a screenshot of his social accounts where he actually posted it would be better
I propose a compromise, they could have done something like this, it only takes a second or two.
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Now I’m 100% on board
Bullshit. There is no reason to show any picture of him here, let alone one that tries to make him look cool.
Nice catch. I would add there is no reason for the face of this douche to be on this article either. Frankly it raises some questions about op, especially as the pic tries to make the president not look like a weak fat demented bitch, which he is.
No. It was the image Trump posted, and it adds value to the article.
Read the image caption