Just want to get some perspective on what people think of the American reaction. I’m NOT asking if it will happen. I’m asking what do you think Americans will do, if anything if this happens. Do you think people will just not care or protest on the streets?
Edit: What would your reaction would be? (even if not American)
They might finally be able to point to Iran on a map. Might
Not a damn thing. Our population has no balls to stand up to oppression. We ARE the oppression.
I think some people will protest and I think some people won’t care and some will cheer for it and every reaction in between
USA: half “serves them right”, half “oh shit”
rest of the continent: “oh shit”
The majority of Americans have been unsupportive of the war in Iran, not just the left.
Because their own material comfort might be negatively affected, not because of morality or humanity, lol. “Trump is an incompetent, check at the gas prices!”
If you listen to them closely you’ll notice that that is the case because they are losing badly; because Trump is doing it wrong
Listen I’m in a Trump is doing it wrong camp but it’s the minority from what I know. A lot MAGA was very invested in the America First secceed from the world narrative and see involvement with Iran as a major betrayal. Still half ass suupporting Ukraine is a betrayal for them.
I don’t think Americans will react to anything unless it happens on their own soil for a change.
Correct, and 911 was a setup
I don’t think we’ll react to things on our own soil anymore. There have been several moments in the last two years that should have been go-time for a country wide indefinite strike or anything. But every time somebody does something, the news cycle works its magic and gets us to fall in line. There are no more Luigi’s in America
The frog in the pot analogy comes to mind. Americans were sitting in the cold pot while trump stoked the fire under them. They’ve sat there largely content as the temp rises.
But if an attack was launched against the US it would be as if the frog was tossed into hot water. They would jump up and take action.
Now a nuke going off miles away might only raise a stir among the US population if the world sanctions the US.
The US dropping a nuke without consequences might encourage the UK to be bolder in its defence of the Falklands.
Pretty much describes the situation. That Falklands bit is wack too though. Crazy to think there are still places that if poor enough the UK will just be like “You know, maybe we DO still have a couple peasant colonies. Did they really earn the same sovereignty as India and Australia? Nobody will care”
Falklands were never fully settled until westerns came along around 1800. Spanish, US and finally Britain. All the people there voted to stay in UK
what percentage of the people populating the Falklands participated in that particular vote and where can I read more about this vote please?
Wait. I have this confused. This isn’t the island that one Argentinian cowboy claimed? I’m about to show my full ignorant ass here.
Edit: oh, this is the place I was thinking of. I just have not heard of this side of the narrative. Are the people that voted native Falklanders/Argentine or are they connected to that UK airbase on the island?
Everything I’ve read has it listed as abandoned and then settled first by the US and then Britain. No indigenous natives.
Why would these sociopaths/amoral materialists care? They don’t even care when their own kids get shot up, as a whole, what price are they paying when it’s Iranian kids who get murdered? They don’t call America the Big Satan for no reason, the Anglo settler colony was built on genocide and slavery and these monsters’ descendants are either proud of it or quietly reap the rewards. There are like four good Americans, the rest are at best just useless and easily propagandised cattle.
Ok, what do you think if a nuke went off in D.C.? Idk what most people would do honestly, probably still go into work the next day?
911 will be a decent reference. Then that fear will be capitalized for state control and power consolidation, privacy invasion, ultimately making the world a worse place. The same playbook
Its show up to work or get fired and jobs are hard to come by. I dont know about the rest of you but I sure do like food.
I don’t understand what people think they would otherwise do. Say you lived in Ukraine, Like 2.5% of their population are active duty. The other 97.5% of the population goes to work/school/etc the next day.
If your honest with yourself everyone age 1-17 and 35+ nothing too much would really change. More jobs would pop up manufacturing drones and such. Amount of males between 18-35 would decrease some, and for the most part life would go on. Oh and them wanting to add $1.5 trillion more dollars to the military budget would pass really quickly. If the U.S. put a deployment as large as Vietnam was these days, we wouldn’t even have 1% active duty.
China won’t like it very much.
Xi Jinping in his underground military city 10x the size of the Pentagon: *sigh “We will have to keep electrifying cars, maybe deal with Australia for coal, how are we on battery raw materials?”
Personally I would at that point be making a trip to the capital because the Orange fucker will have placed not just Iranians, not just American citizens, but all human life on earth at risk.
Keep in mind that other nations like Russia and China would have less than 5 minutes to react to an intercontinental missile heading vaguely in their direction, they could choose to retaliate and mutually ensure destruction.
Yes, they’d have to be willing to bet that it’s true destination is Iran. If it’s a bomber this isn’t a problem, but america doesn’t have air superiority in Iran
Also I think small portable nuclear weapons are out of fashion given smuggling capability. Could be wrong, though.
portable
Not exactly in your pocket, but James Bond has shown several times how they can be carried on small trucks. Still plausible.
… Ah yes, james bond movirs. An EXCELLENT source for information on nukes … 🤪🥴
A nuclear attack on Iran would most likely be from nearby submarine. Not ICBM. Not only does ICBM include destination ambiguity, it also takes 20+ minutes to strike. Iran would have time to destroy most oil production facilities in region, before, and still have capability after.
Everyone has second strike capability, they would accept the risk of a single missile knowing full well they can easily do MAD even if their capital was hit.
I highly recommend watching House of Dynamite. It shows how super quickly everybody reacts. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.
American will wait to be told how to react. The public gave up rational thought a long time ago.
I would guess in exactly the same way they treat every other red line crossed by MAGA.
I might depend on size and where.
If it’s smaller than the ones used on Japan and not in Tehran, there will be less protest than if it was a megaton bomb used on Tehran.
Much sadness, some attempts to justify, and some cheering.
The other nuclear-armed countries will feel validated that they have nukes.
Then maybe some amazement when Iranian drone strikes on American ships continue.
Honestly I’d be way more concerned about Iran getting pushed into finally making their nuke so they can lob it back and start WWIII; or Israel seeing it as a green light to just start nuking whoever they please.
Iran isn’t fissile material-less, they could probably form a completely functional bomb with some assistance from NK and China (or next door Pakistan if they suddenly decide to abandon uncle sam). It might require some hefty price, but they could probably trade away oil access rights and have their material covertly sent to NK for final processing into a bomb.
Even if China doesn’t want to get involved, they could just as easily make some quick dirty bombs, attach it to their ballistic missiles, and perma scar a significant portion of the earth with radiation poisoning.
The general American public response is largely irrelevant because it’s already too late to matter. Even if they ripped out the entirety of DC and formed a completely new government, there’s no stopping the consequences of such an action.
I think about 30% of the population would be exhilarated and rally around a false sense of righteous power. About 60% would be absolutely aghast and would make a lot of noise for a few weeks. Then they’d gradually settle into the comfort of being indignant without actually changing anything. After a while the American people would continue doing the same thing they’ve done for the last eight decades: inflicting violence on everyone for the enrichment of a few privileged oligarchs.
What about the last 10%? Unaware?
I cannot predict their behavior because they behave outside of reason
This is increasingly my problem with most of the world and the systems therein.
It’s not going to happen. I don’t think you understand how nukes work nor the long term ramifications.
I’m sure myyass can educate me
lol reading that is like my name choices for ocarina of time.
Some with a brain left will protest.
