I meant a plan b for the white hats, as in machinations going on behind the scenes to take down the enemies without setting off the nuke, but you're right that applies to the other side too. I generally assume the bad dudes are like Sith Lords and have multiple layers of xanatos gambits to handle any contingency. (just like my heckin space wizards movie!) Let's hope you're right, although it doesn't matter if we don't even use our bombs in the first place.
Truth is, even the bad guys are too stupid to save themselves. Our enemies really are morons. There is no plan b for them either.
But there's no plan b for the white hats. Best they've really got is JD Vance, Tucker Carlson, and the Head of Paypal gerry-rigging something together at the last minute. The Cathedral is burning down faster than it can be captured, and putting the fire out just means that the priestly class will purge the village when the fire is gone. There's no church to replace the Cathedral yet with, there's no way to save the Cathedral from the flames, and there's no way to stop the priests from attacking if you save it.
The best I've described it is that we are a society run by school-shooters. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are the Vice Principles of Columbine High. How do you save the school? Effectively, you don't. You have to use a combat bulldozer to basically flush them out, but there's no other schools, and we can't suspend classes. It's going to be messy because we've not been able to build an anti-parallel system first. That's why Trump is trying to "Build" his way out, instead of approaching the government like Milei in Argentina. Peronism is better to deal with than what we have, because Peronism is less entrenched and self-destructive than Fabianism.
I meant a plan b for the white hats, as in machinations going on behind the scenes to take down the enemies without setting off the nuke, but you're right that applies to the other side too. I generally assume the bad dudes are like Sith Lords and have multiple layers of xanatos gambits to handle any contingency. (just like my heckin space wizards movie!) Let's hope you're right, although it doesn't matter if we don't even use our bombs in the first place.
Truth is, even the bad guys are too stupid to save themselves. Our enemies really are morons. There is no plan b for them either.
But there's no plan b for the white hats. Best they've really got is JD Vance, Tucker Carlson, and the Head of Paypal gerry-rigging something together at the last minute. The Cathedral is burning down faster than it can be captured, and putting the fire out just means that the priestly class will purge the village when the fire is gone. There's no church to replace the Cathedral yet with, there's no way to save the Cathedral from the flames, and there's no way to stop the priests from attacking if you save it.
The best I've described it is that we are a society run by school-shooters. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are the Vice Principles of Columbine High. How do you save the school? Effectively, you don't. You have to use a combat bulldozer to basically flush them out, but there's no other schools, and we can't suspend classes. It's going to be messy because we've not been able to build an anti-parallel system first. That's why Trump is trying to "Build" his way out, instead of approaching the government like Milei in Argentina. Peronism is better to deal with than what we have, because Peronism is less entrenched and self-destructive than Fabianism.