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@Dudebro @egirlyuumimain @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @Hoss But thanks to Nixon, America's thorium tech still looks like this instead of something ya could throw in a truck..

I have a real conflicted opinion about Nixon because he signed off on a lot of bad policies but was allegedly ultra based in private. Surely this was somehow Kissinger's fault.

The Nixon tapes are a window in to a soul that was too based for his time even.

*Advisors arguing about the war*

Nixon: Why don't we just nuke the gooks?

*uncomfortably long silence*

Kissenger: Mr President...that may be excessive

@CobaltSasquatch @Hoss @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain Aye, He had a lot of great aspects, but, like all the others, he was swayed by bombs that Mox reactors could make rather than the infinite power, lack of waste, and amazing efficiency of thorium... Plus, Thorium reactors don't give the US an excuse to invade, because they cant be used for enrichment..

@HonkHonkBoom @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss thorium reactors fail deadly and that's their major problem (not that that stopped Russia from building RBMKs)

@sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @egirlyuumimain @Hoss I thought the whole idea of Thorium (salt) reactors was that they cool and stop themselves without continuous power flow somehow? Wasn't there some type of freeze plug or something or other that would drain the molten material if the power went out?

I think Russia had a fuck it approach to building shit tbh.

One of my favorite stories from the Cold War arms race was how America got so shook by the MiG-25 that they designed and built the greatest fighter platform of all time to counter it, and then later found out the scary Soviet wunderwaffe was actually a gigantic piece of shit that could reach its purported top speed precisely once before melting its own engines.

@Hoss @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain and to be fair the Soviets didn't even hide that fact, we just assumed they made it out of unobtanium and adrenochrome cuz that's how we'd have done it

Nyet, is only have to intercept one time make out of pot metal

@sapphire @Hoss @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @weknowwhygary SERGY BLYAAAT WE NEED FIGHTER JET TO DEFEAT PIGDOGS BUT ALL WE HAVE IS HIGH-NICKEL STAINLESS STEEL

THAT IS FINE SERGI JUST TO BE SLAPPING HUGE BALLISTIC MISSILE ENGINES INTO.

COMRADE PILOT DOES NOT NEED TO SURVIVE STRATEGICALLY NECESSARY INTERCEPTION OPERATION IF COMMUNISM SURVIVES.

WE SPEND LIKE 50,000 RUBLES AND THE US SHITS ITS COLLECTIVE PANTS AND SPENDS 700 MILLION COUNTERING SOMETHING THAT DOESNT EVEN REALLY EXIST COMRADE.

F15 was my favorite jet in the whole world when I was 4. It still is, but it was then, too. I guess I never even said thank you, roosky.

In case you've never seen Mustard. His videos are nice.

https://youtu.be/RmlWmDokzGg

@weknowwhygary @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss @AGARTHA_NOBLE highly suggest taking advantage of that nebula deal btw, there are some good content creators on there

there's also legal eagle and jessie gender, but I ignore the FUCK out of those faggots lole

@weknowwhygary @AGARTHA_NOBLE @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain https://nebula.tv/videos/paperskies-how-soviet-pilots-drank-alcohol-from-planes this guy in particular is always a joy to listen to because his father was a Soviet aviator, even if he's (a bit justifiably as a uke) very condescending towards Russia

You can also find him on youtube

Communism is one of the greatest travesties of human civilization, but the history of the Soviet Union is genuinely fascinating.

@Hoss @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @AGARTHA_NOBLE having worked for an eastern european company for the last half a decade I now completely understand it though

Sometimes I wonder if America and the Soviet Union needed each other, like a deranged geopolitical manifestation of Batman and the Joker. Once the USSR fell and the "end of history" era began, the world started becoming progressively more fucked up.

The F-15 is a masterpiece. Fancier platforms may have followed, but they entered operation after the fall of the USSR. The F-15 mogged the Soviets in the air superiority game during the later half of the Cold War.

I'm sure the Soviets were happy to pocket the unexpected propaganda W and run with it as far as they could.

@Dudebro @WandererUber @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss @sapphire I mean they were communists in Russia of all places
Human lives meant literally nothing

@WandererUber @sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss Thorium reactors are soyence psuedo magic gobilty gook
They seemingly do anything and everything, but are somehow unable to be built. See also cold fusion

@WandererUber @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @egirlyuumimain @Hoss asking my pet nuke, stand by

Nixon suffered from the fact that the American public didn't get the Snyder Cut version of his administration until long after he was out of office.

Nixon: "I’d rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that ready?"

Kissinger: "That, I think, would just be too much."

Nixon: "The nuclear bomb, does that bother you?... I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake!"

Kissinger be like "Mr. President, the military industrial complex demands a long, drawn out conflict that requires many bombs instead of a short exchange that needs only one."

@CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss Kissinger knew if Nixon proved nukes could end a war before they started, Israel's nuclear program would be useless