Re: <nettime> [spectre] the EU's first rogue state

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Urban populations ... no one will waste nukes on peasants. Peasants and 
the ruling class will survive.

Do a search on "luxury shelters" or "doomsday bunkers" - from $1MM to 
$40MM a pop. It doesn't matter if they will work or not - what matters 
is that the buyers believe they will, and these buyers are the ones 
making the nuking decisions.

Between the Silicon Valley psychopaths working on personal immortality, 
5 megacorps amassing trillions in cash and not spending it, and the top 
0.001% becoming preppers, it's obvious that there is a general belief 
among the ruling class that these tumultuous times will end in some kind 
of rupture, and they are getting ready. No one likes the times we live 
in. I don't have any doubts that those of them loosely identifying as 
"Americans" will opt for the nuclear gamble if faced with losing the 
imperial status. They are certainly ready to play the nuclear gamble for 
far less - like losing the elections.

On 8/13/17, 19:44, Thomas Keenan wrote:
> "A limited nuclear war" ... limited to whom?

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