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Originally Posted by Joe Obenberger
The US can't use nuclear weapons first for many reasons starting with how it will play in the rest of the world, how history would brand us as Darth Vader, and a showdown with congress about the always sticky interface between the president's role as commander in chief versus the congress's exclusive right to declare war.
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They could use a proxy, in the same way they used Al Qaeda to attack Libya and Syria. It's more complicated getting at island nations though, you'd probably need to pretend they'd just done something horrific to you first.
