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)
Schumer will write a strongly worded memo complaining that it was just one nuke and not 50, and that the US must send monetary aid to Israel because they might get some radiation from our nukes. And, some rallies will be held in which ICE beats protesters en masse and kills a few. Same as always.
There will be another toilet paper shortage, I can tell you that much
They’d vote Trump in for a third term.
They might finally be able to point to Iran on a map. Might
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?
Some with a brain left will protest.
Blue States: Horror, protest in streets on the opposite side of the country in places Trump already knows are against him.
Red States: “Fuck yeah! About damn time!” (Proceeds to pay $17/gallon for gas to ‘own the libs’.)
I don’t think Americans will react to anything unless it happens on their own soil for a change.
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
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
USA: half “serves them right”, half “oh shit”
rest of the continent: “oh shit”
There would be mass panic at the imminent nuclear crisis. Borders probably shut down.
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.
I cannot predict their behavior because they behave outside of reason
My reaction, as a Canadian, would be “I hope we’ve been secretly preparing what’s needed for a nuclear program of our own because we need our own nukes immediately now. America’s collapse is progressing way faster and harder than I expected.”
Not a damn thing. Our population has no balls to stand up to oppression. We ARE the oppression.
People will buy a lot of toilet paper
