Recent content by Trebuchet

While skimming the titles of the threads, I somehow misread this as "The American Klingon", which would probably be a pretty interesting timeline, too. A monarchical United States is pretty unique too. But one question - why is it in ASB? It doesn't seem that weird.

I doubt that the Tea Party types who fetishize Bastiat would have a real problem with the sort of writeoffs and discounting on bad loans that would be going on in this scenario. The "bad banks" would be liquidating assets at a substantial loss (and many would go out of business or end up much...

The more solvent banks would buy out the assets of the less solvent banks, there would be significant turmoil (in the sense of sudden and large-scale changes in market share and so forth) in the regional banks, and some people would lose their jobs (redundant departments of the more broke banks...

The Lizards were threatening to destroy the responsible party, and in fact had been threatening to restart the war in its entirety before the nuclear strike was launched. Yeager did not 'save mankind', he foolhardily risked it, as Warren did before him. EDIT: It's getting late and also starting...

The best strategy is not necessarily the perfect strategy. Delaying runs a risk. So does nuking a few million civilians when the Lizards have warned that to do so is to resume the war - a war that, at the current time, you cannot win. One risk is much, much greater than the other.

Of course! In a parallel universe, Yeager would have been just as justified to launch nuclear missiles against the Russians! Oh, wait, Yeager didn't launch the nuclear missiles at all? That was Warren? Oh, you're arguing a different question... again. I suppose you'll try to tie it into what I...

He was running a huge risk for uncertain gain in attacking a small proportion of the civilian element of the Lizards' occupation. So, even from a purely amoral, military-minded point of view, he was unjustified. He ran a massive risk of igniting an all-out thermonuclear war over his actions...

There is probably a nice little argument here, if I wished to pursue it. They want to wipe out human languages, cultures, folkways, etc. and essentially turn everyone into scale-less Lizards. This is their hearts' desire. In which case I say, yes, they mean to wipe out humanity, even if humans...

The emphatically did wish to wipe humanity, in the sense of sovereign human states, off the map. That was the entire point of the series.

They are ideologically committed. They also have demonstrated that, when the opportunity presents itself, they will act in accordance with that ideological commitment. The fact that they are cautious, long-term thinkers should not distract you from the fact that they are, in fact, an existential...

I am criticizing a power that was attacked with tons of nuclear missiles by the Third Reich for wanting to wipe humanity from the map. Germany would merely be another step along the way.

Yes, the Nazis started the war. What I described is how the Race desired to finish the war. They were dissuaded through the offices of the other nuclear powers.

The shape and nature of the alien invader is irrelevant. They could be Draka from an alternate timeline invading - whatever. It doesn't matter. What matters, for purpose of this question, is (1) What do they claim to want to do, (2) Are they credibly capable of doing so, and (3) What are the...

It was, IIRC, a Marine MEU and whoever and whatever else happened to be with them at the base at the time. They had tracked vehicles and such but had (obviously) a very limited supply of food, medical supplies, and the like. So they had tube artillery and helicopters and such - the choppers were...