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by mnyary 2294 days ago
„John von Neumann was "violent anti-communist and much more militaristic than the norm", according to his own words from one of the Senate committee hearings. He was an advocate of the "preventive war" strategy (against USSR), and was quoted in 1950: "If you say why not bomb [the Soviets] tomorrow, I say, why not today. If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?" ” https://www.quora.com/What-were-John-von-Neumanns-political-...
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We forget that Khrushchev had literally said "We will bury you", banging his shoe on the table on international TV. He wasn't fucking around. Von Neumann knew many, many people tortured, killed, or sent to the gulag by the Soviets.
So the proposed solution to stop them being tortured, killed and sent to the gulag was to nuke the and hundreds of millions others so they'd be dead before that could happen?