Nuclear command points out that it may resist Trump orders for use of nuclear weapons http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/18/politics/air-force-general-john-hyten-nuclear-strike-donald-trump/index.html …
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Replying to @Plinz
For clarity, the Trump portion of this is editorialized. The STRATCOM CC never said anything about Trump specifically, but rather any President that gave an illegal order. This is the way the chain of verification has worked for Nuclear weapons since the 50s.
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Replying to @AndrewKemendo
He does point out that he intends to interpret "legal" in a relatively far reaching sense. I think that there is reference to the context.
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Replying to @Plinz
Right, which has always been the case. This same discussion came up at least once previously with the commander of Strategic Air Command (SAC), and Nixon in the 70s. Again, the Nuclear Forces haven't changed their model of operation with respect to rogue executives.
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Replying to @AndrewKemendo @Plinz
What's happening, which is good, is that the average citizen is now slowly learning how the DoD and government ACTUALLY works and realizing the President isn't an emperor, which seems to be how most viewed it.
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Replying to @AndrewKemendo
I'd rather not rest society on the learning process of the average citizen, but on the adaptation and evolution of its institutions.
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Replying to @Plinz
Yes well, for better or worse, the educated citizen is (at least in the US) the foundation of democracy and the institutions that it gives birth to. Until an AGI can do better, it's what we're stuck with.
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... I suppose my view on how and why our social order works is considerably darker than yours :)
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