If I had to do a takesmith moment, maybe they finally have an operating model of a EMP device? It’s one of those things conservatives have been shadowboxing that for years, which means they’ve been working on it. It was one of the fabled weapons from the dubya years and a big part of apocalypse fantasy under Obama. I could see them doing a big commercial for it, a live demonstration (just like my star wars!). Of course it would probably be half-assed so they would follow up with analog carpet-bombing of civilian infrastructure. Then “we have a nuke without the nuke” discourse will carry everyone pretty far over the next decade.
If I had to do a takesmith moment, maybe they finally have an operating model of a EMP device? It’s one of those things conservatives have been shadowboxing that for years, which means they’ve been working on it. It was one of the fabled weapons from the dubya years and a big part of apocalypse fantasy under Obama. I could see them doing a big commercial for it, a live demonstration (just like my star wars!). Of course it would probably be half-assed so they would follow up with analog carpet-bombing of civilian infrastructure. Then “we have a nuke without the nuke” discourse will carry everyone pretty far over the next decade.