• Too Lazy Didn't Name@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, but if you said this was a regurally scheduled drill, the acticle wouldn’t seem as interesting!

      The US does this every year too, it is critical to the concept of mutually assured destruction. Both sides have to continually demonstrate the ability to annihilate the other in order to deter each other from actually launching a strike.