• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    6 days ago

    Nuke subs just means powered by nuclear. They may or not have nuclear weapons.

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      6 days ago

      But do you think Trump means it that way? The dude has a hard on for nukes and wants to appear like a big, strong, threatening man (despite his itty bitty nuke chode), so to me it seems more likely that he’s referring to subs with nukes on-board. Assuming there’s any truth to his threat at all, which given the source, does warrant extreme skepticism.

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      NO. Trump means “boomer”, ballistic missile submarines armed with a dozen+ ICBMs whose warheads splits into Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs).

      He’s made a clear and present threat: “I just ordered the most powerful weapon platforms into your backyard.”

      They know those boomers are somewhere, easily able to strike Russia. You know it. I know it. But in diplomatic terms, this is the worst threat I’ve heard from the head of a nation state. And I lived the Cold War.

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        6 days ago

        He is referring to boomers, no question. See my other comments on this thread.