If President Donald Trump ordered the US Pacific Fleet commander, Adm. Scott Swift, to bomb China with nuclear weapons, he would do it in a heartbeat. He said this during an Australian National University security conference and it freaked out lots of people. Clearly, he knows that not every general in US is in the same boat, and he “warned against the military ever shifting its allegiance from its commander in chief.”
The Admiral would follow orders from the madman; meaning, he would basically end life as we known it for a tweet or some thought that floated into the pussy grabber’s head while watching Fox News or reading the National Enquirer, a paper he considers to be real news.
But here is the bad news. The news that should keep you up at night. It only takes a quick exchange of nuclear weapons to toss up enough carbon/soot to block the sun. And without the sun, plants would suffer and die. And because we are not primary producers but, like all animals, secondary ones who are dependent on the green trick of photosynthesis (food from air, water, and light), billions of humans would head to a grave that would dwarf the two world wars of the previous century.
So, it is not the explosions that will undo so many; indeed all of the detonations could happen China, not one in the US, and still we would be majorly fucked by the radically changed global climate: a rapid drop in world-wide temperatures, the destruction of the ozone layer, and a huge increase in UV radiation on the planet’s surface. Hell on earth could fall out of Trump’s mouth at any moment.
