Ask HN: So what IS the end game for any WW3 scenario?
This is my personal belief, which I have no way to substantiate, and solely statistical, but it helps me sleep at night or so to speak.<p>Nobody spends more on defense than US. Also, the new technology that you hear about today is essentially declassified tech from ~20 years ago. I remember reading in the past about Boeing doing experiments with a 747 carrying a giant laser that could lock on and fry ICBMs. There was also stuff like this 14 years ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KBMU6l6GsdM">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=KBMU6l6GsdM</a><p>Extrapolating to today, I firmly believe that US (and probably NATO and other countries who share intel) are watching Russian launch sites closely, ready to drop kinetic warheads from orbit at the first sign of activation, not to mention multiple layers of defense with kinetic kill vehicles, lasers, EMPS, jammers, e.t.c. That is assuming, we don&#x27;t have stuxnet like malware hiding in computer systems that would just magically cause the missiles to fail.<p>After all, Russian military was shown to be wildly incompetent (which US probably already knew), so that translates to easy infiltration&#x2F;intel and creation of a safeguard plan to counter anything they have.