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  • A US Navy nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine surfaced in the Norwegian Sea.
  • It was accompanied by a guided-missile cruiser and two naval aircraft.
  • The show of force came weeks after Russia sent a submarine and naval fleet to Cuba.
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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

I've never wanted to be wrong about anything more than WW3...

But I keep seeing all these articles that make it really look like WW3 is right around the corner...

Like, the entire point of SSBNs is to hide and no one knows where they are. Popping up just to flex is not a good sign. It's trading the actual point of their existence (no one knows where our nukes are) for a show of force.

It's not a rational choice to do this, Russia knows we have SSBNs all over the globe, they don't need to actually see one and know where it is

I mean, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, everyone didn’t immediately go “welp time to start up our World War”. Nor did that happen when Nazi Germany got rolling on Anschluss.

If WW3 starts, we’ll eventually determine some specific event that got it rolling irrevocably in that direction. Could be the annexation of Crimea in 2014, or the Ukraine invasion in 2022, or something in the future (PRC annexing Taiwan - or trying to and failing; North Korea finally pulling the trigger and trying to finish the Korean War; India and Pakistan finally coming to nuclear blows; any number of other things). Nobody will know until it’s already history.

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah I was surprised when I listened to hardcore history about it. It was like 4 weeks from the assassination to the declaration of war.

I feel like you’re missing the point of my comment

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago
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