• @Noobnarski@lemmy.world
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    Wouldn’t be the first time for high ranking officials to die that way. It happened at least once in the soviet union.

  • @nxn@biglemmowski.win
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    2 months ago

    IMO, the current administration is the biggest threat to democracy in the history of this nation, and right now its PR is being lead by a clown that paints his face orange each morning.

    The right wants him replaced just as much as the left – and preferably quickly enough that Vance might get 3 terms. So be careful what you wish for, because right now Trump is actually doing a phenomenal job of fueling outrage over project 2025 agendas. Someone with more intellect will be better able to mask their radical nature.

  • @ubergeek@lemmy.today
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    Oh… I am loving this! I hope he puts it on a rush job to be completed and in the air with Trump, and his whole cabinet on board within 1 month.

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    I hope we come up with a US Navy 1 submersible too, built by Elon! Trump can get in the idiot squisher too!

  • @tal@lemmy.today
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    I mean, realistically, we would probably be just fine with Air Force One having no security systems at all. Like, the likelihood that someone is going to attack Air Force One probably isn’t all that high, and you can also mitigate that by choosing where to fly the thing.

    And as long as Trump understands any risk that he exposes himself to…I mean, it’s not as if a future President is required to use the Trump-era Air Force One. It’s really just him and people during his administration.

    Most national leaders don’t have anything like the kind of protection that the President does.

    Now, granted, most also haven’t had four assassination attempts against them be intercepted in past months, but I’m also not sure that shooting down Air Force One is the easiest way to assassinate the President, either.

    EDIT: And I think that it’s also worth considering that some of our norms for modern Presidential travel were developed during the Cold War, in an era of potential nuclear conflict where launch-on-warning was part of nuclear doctrine. In that scenario, the President needs to travel around with the nuclear football, and a decapitation strike might be an important early first move in a nuclear war.

    But we haven’t relied on launch-on-warning for a long time. The President is a lot more expendable in the context of dealing with an opposing nuclear first strike today; it’s the SLBM arsenal used to counter that now.

    Today, if a hostile state kills the President, it might produce disruption for a short period…but that disruption probably isn’t going to buy all that much, strategically.

    • @capital_sniff@lemmy.world
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      I always thought Air Force One needed security to prevent terrorists from taking the president hostage and forcing them to release more terrorists. But, our current president already lets a bunch of terrorists go like the Taliban and Jan Sixers.

    • @Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org
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      52 months ago

      Most politicians are fine riding a bicycle to work, ride a train or a normal car, just fly a normal ass airline, things like that. But americans need them to ride in a tank because they love to kiss the feet of their celebrity overloards. I mean putin obviously can’t or kim jong-un can’t which says a lot.

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      102 months ago

      Today, if a hostile state kills the President, it might produce disruption for a short period…but that disruption probably isn’t going to buy all that much, strategically.

      Can’t possibly be any more disruption than what the current president is causing… So I’d call it a win if he was taken out.