Project Insight though? As has been said, the Captain America property isn’t shy of blunt instruments, but this is just fucking stupid beyond words. Battle of New York or not, no one is going to be okay with three perpetually ‘orbiting’ helicarriers full of railguns sitting watch over them.
How is it different from real life carrier strike forces perpetually patrolling the oceans, or real life nuclear ICBMs perpetually pointed at neighbouring continents?
For one thing, it's psychological -- Insight's helicarriers pose an obvious Damoclean threat whereas naval carrier groups are nebulously terrestial.
The other is precisely the reason why American scientists leaked nuclear munitions tech to the Soviets: no single country can be allowed to have access to that sort of weapon, not even the 'good guys' -- and what sort of good guy would have it in the first place? While its intentions might have been benign, America's possessing the sole nuclear arsenal rendered it the dictator of the world, capable of exterminating any country that provided intransigent enough.
Our ICBMs are matched by their ICBMs. Insanity might prevail, and we might spit our last breaths at each other, but until then that threat of Mutually Assured Destruction keeps the inevitable conflicts between ideologies small and, well, manageable
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I'm really hoping for a Red, White and Black storyline at some point. I think it would work well thematically in the MCU Captain America continuity. Plus if you're planning to have the franchise run until 2028 (at least) then you're going to need to invest in some legacy heroes.
I loved this movie, one of the best MCU ones. The only potential problem I see is Black Widow. Zola said she was born in the mid-80's, how is that going to work with her connection to the Soviet Union and the KGB?
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How is it different from real life carrier strike forces perpetually patrolling the oceans, or real life nuclear ICBMs perpetually pointed at neighbouring continents?
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The other is precisely the reason why American scientists leaked nuclear munitions tech to the Soviets: no single country can be allowed to have access to that sort of weapon, not even the 'good guys' -- and what sort of good guy would have it in the first place? While its intentions might have been benign, America's possessing the sole nuclear arsenal rendered it the dictator of the world, capable of exterminating any country that provided intransigent enough.
Our ICBMs are matched by their ICBMs. Insanity might prevail, and we might spit our last breaths at each other, but until then that threat of Mutually Assured Destruction keeps the inevitable conflicts between ideologies small and, well, manageable ( ... )
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