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#692 The US-China Gray War w/ Jacob Helberg

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The Usability Destructiveness Paradox of Modern Warfare

There is an inverse relationship between the practical usibility of a weapon and its degree of physical destructiveness. So to take an x example, if a country only has high yield nuclear weapons, the only policy choices it has at its disposal are either not doing anything or total annihilation. The less physically destructive a weapon is, the more usable it becomes. And that's why, you know, as the innernet a starts to touch upon more and more areas of our lives, the potency of sabr weapons has gone up substantially.

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