I think that the main reason is this is the last gasp of a dying (albite powerful) regime. They are probably telling the Americans that the Britain attacked first and that the air strikes are justified, in order to try getting everyone back on board and get a rally round the flag effect going on. Of course this wont work but I think that the government knew that but was still trying a hail mary.Wait isn't the US is already embroiled in a civil war, why would they launch a war to the British Empire?
That seems, pretty dumb. Like in our world, when Mexico was invited to join the Central Powers and attack the US, they decline since they were in civil war.I think that the main reason is this is the last gasp of a dying (albite powerful) regime. They are probably telling the Americans that the Britain attacked first and that the air strikes are justified, in order to try getting everyone back on board and get a rally round the flag effect going on. Of course this wont work but I think that the government knew that but was still trying a hail mary.
By the way, thank you for reminding me of the single most terrifying film I have ever seen. I pray that Threads! America edition never happens in this timeline. It remains to date the only movie I have had nightmares over, and felt sickened by.
A chemical/biological version (not nuclear, obviously) of this is going to happen here, isn't it?
Likewise. Moreso than any other film, that did a great deal to shape my whole worldview.By the way, thank you for reminding me of the single most terrifying film I have ever seen. I pray that Threads! America edition never happens in this timeline. It remains to date the only movie I have had nightmares over, and felt sickened by.
Well there is one thing holding that back. America does not have sunlight in a bottle. And without that horrifying capability, humanity can still recover. Chemical weapons can pollute for years, decades, but they are limited to (relatively) small areas. Biological weapons is the greater danger, but even then they can be stopped with quarantine, vaccinations and severe restrictions. Nukes though release poison that attacks everything humans need, our water, air, food and our children. And America does not have them.Likewise. Moreso than any other film, that did a great deal to shape my whole worldview.
Wouldn't it be horrible if TTL basically turns into, well, that, and we see the rich, prosperous, first-world New England destroyed as Sheffield was?
Then, as a resident of Upstate New York I'm probably dead even if this war stays conventional...
I think the US does have a few nukes but I hope I'm wrong.Well there is one thing holding that back. America does not have sunlight in a bottle. And without that horrifying capability, humanity can still recover. Chemical weapons can pollute for years, decades, but they are limited to (relatively) small areas. Biological weapons is the greater danger, but even then they can be stopped with quarantine, vaccinations and severe restrictions. Nukes though release poison that attacks everything humans need, our water, air, food and our children. And America does not have them.
Britain does though. And if they choose to, which they might have done, it won't be Sheffield or Boston that burns, it will be Cincinatti, Hamilton, New Orleans and all the people whose only crime was to be ruled by a madman. And there will be countless American Ruths and Janes who suffer for it.
EDIT: Oh OK Hogan had a functioning brain after all. Er, good for him I guess. America is now led by a cabal of reactionary madmen instead of just one.
I think the US does have a few nukes but I hope I'm wrong.
With regards to Hogan's, ah, incapacitation, my bet is that *America (can't even call it the same country as the one I inhabit and love) will probably fracture over time as the current regime heads become warlords battling it out over the nation's heartland. Just an idea though.
Word of God can help us rest somewhat easier. Somewhat.The United States does not maintain a stockpile of nuclear weapons.
I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.The "place"? that must not be named?