Plus many of them are so poorly maintained they likely wouldn’t launch anyway. Missiles have a lot of upkeep

The valid response to that is not “Oh well, guess lots of civilians are gonna die”, it’s “Shit, guess we can’t bomb the place then.”

Yeah, now they will know for sure which civilians they are killing.

Franco in Spain. Not saying that’s a good plan to go with, but it has happened.

The law requires a technology safety standard by November 2024 if the technology is ready.

The technology will never be ready. The accuracy required for such a thing to not be universally despised is absurd.

We’re an addict who won’t stop till we OD.

And it will work for about a week into January before being utterly obliterated by salt and snow.

Goddamn we can’t even maintain the basic roads we have, much less a much more expensive and complicated one. It’ll be obliterated by salt and snow the first winter and never work again.

Essentially every war since WW2 has been a proxy war. That’s was kind the whole idea behind the Cold War. It ain’t new. Those didn’t escalate and this is unlikely to. All the powers involved know the stakes.

Counter counterpoint: Jello salad is not a salad, but a crime against humanity.

German potato salad is served hot. A salad is literally just any ingredients mixed together.