Unlike Biden and Harris, McConnell is not an independently elected Constitutional officer—he’s only “majority leader” as long his coworkers say so, and he doesn’t have much wiggle room to say anything they don’t want to hear
Nuke 'em from orbit.
There did seem to be serious concern. A lot of the hardware, tech, and knowledge was unaccounted for and it’s not like even the “responsible” countries have a solid plan for dealing with waste. A lot of it was unloaded onto countries like North Korea.
My biggest gripes, like others have said, is its investing in the tools of the last war, not the next one…and I’m not keen on investing in tools for the next war, either.
The upside to ending our war in Afghanistan is that we can deal with low military recruitment numbers with less hesitation.
A good deal of these white supremacists were not weeded out because the military, especially the Army and Marines, were running short on enlisted manpower during our “Forever War”.
The same sort of thing was the reason we ended conscription after the Vietnam War. The military was filled with people who had no business in it because they needed more bodies.
The West bought a significant amount of the former USSR’s weapons grade nuclear fuel off their hands.
This was a big issue because the most time/resource consuming part of a country developing nuclear weapons on their own is the “enrichment phase”. Obtaining enough enriched uranium or plutonium for the weapons.
The basic technology to build them is nearly 80 year old by now. Not difficult by current standards. But the process of creating plutonium or getting enough U-235 out of a tons of uranium is still very expensive and takes time. Especially without World Power level resources.
That’s the part which scares me. I can see some of these assholes blowing up the local water treatment plant because the city has a gay pride parade like my hometown (Wichita). These folks really think they got the right to meddle in urban affairs that they don’t even see personally unless they’re coming to town to gawk.
These sorts of infrastructure attacks would not be off the table at all.
I do think it’s not all urban vs rural, though. Part of the white grievances is that they view cities as being “taken over” by the “wrong sort” - people of color, the LGBQT+ communities, progressive young people, artists, etc… and some of the extremist believe that it’s their birth right, as that is often where power is mostly concentrated and accrued. At least some of the rural extremists are people or the children of people who fled first the cities and then the suburbs during the white flight period…
After 9/11, Chicago was on high alert with two skyscrapers — the John Hancock and the Sears Tower — and our main water treatment plant. They were not wrong in their estimation of the most dangerous targets.
While blowing up critical infrastructure elements is always an attractive option to far-right yahoos they can also accomplish the same ends by occupying them, blockading them, or (with a little help from Putin) hacking into the control systems.
The current blockade situation at bridge between Michigan and Ontario is a good example. These fascist truckers have now shut down a piece of infrastructure that facilitates a quarter of the trade between the U.S. and Canada and has idled auto industry plants on both sides of the border. The authorities are at a loss about what to do about it, and not only because the truckers are mostly white males and not only because the GOP and Conservatives are still playing footsie with them.
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