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I mean, I agree about the fearmongering, but the comparison is off.

1947 was significantly safer than 2024 precisely because the USSR had tested successfully. If the US was the only country with nuclear weapons, it would have nuked the USSR, China, and a dozen other countries by now. This is how the US operates with technological advantages (when it still had them); From the air, from afar, safe on its big little island on the other side of the globe.

But today, it no longer has that advantage, and it's a dying empire, which in 1947 clearly it wasn't. Dying empires get desperate, especially after the loss of technological supremacy; all of its geopolitical rivals have hypersonics now, the US can't get one off the ground. It's been doing every desperate thing it can to extend the neocolonial party another few years. This is way more dangerous.

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>If the US was the only country with nuclear weapons, it would have nuked the USSR, China, and a dozen other countries by now.

Have any backup for this? The primary way the US gets countries to do what the US wants is to throw unholy gobs of money at them.

>But today, it no longer has that advantage, and it's a dying empire, which in 1947 clearly it wasn't.

You think the US is a dying empire, or Russia? If it's the US, whatever you are reading isn't based in reality. Name a peer.