How Nuclear Conflict Could Halt Global Air Traffic [Roundup]

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  1. @ Gary — Don’t worry, Donald Trump has probably already shared enough UN intelligence with Iran to get us all killed soon enough. He should be charged with treason, and if found guilty, punished appropriately.

  2. Lol Gene. Hitting the sauce before 5? Trump despised Iran and literally droned one of their top leaders. Can’t remember who gave them $1.7 billion in cash on pallets…

    So, which of these articles triggered you and led to Iran?

  3. I felt like this could be a headline from the Onion or Babylon Bee.

    How about a follow up:

    “Spending those unused point and miles before all life is snuffed out in the next two weeks.”

  4. The title reminds me of a ’60s Comix cartoon book panel where a fellow is reading the newspaper. The headline is, “World War III Starts Today,” the lead below it starts, ‘”About time”, says commentator.’ Believe me, global air traffic would be the least of our concerns.

  5. @ Robert — Watching too much Fox News? No one gave them cash on pallets. Besides, nothing anyone else has ever done has anything to do with Donald Trump being a treasonist. He is solely responsible for his own behavior. Uh, and I don’t drink alcohol or Kool-Aid.

  6. LOL Gary, when nuclear war comes the last thing you will be worried about is your precious points and miles….

  7. Robert, that was IRAQ. They got the pallets o’ cash.
    Of course, asking a fox News lover to worry about facts is a fools errand…..

  8. @Robert

    Gene is just angry that under trump we had no wars and a booming economy. That all changed when senile Joe stole the election.

  9. @JorgeGeorge Paez

    Fox news lovers are informed since they get the truth vs the liberal media propaganda.

    Remember there was no war in Ukraine when trump was in office.

  10. @Gene

    Your right it was just a jet filled with 300 million after obongo signed that appeasement treaty. Luckily trump scrapped that.

  11. @Gene

    Lol it’s so funny watching you melt down. 2000 mules…..
    Trump will never be convicted not anything =)

    @JorgeGeorge Paez

    You seem to forget the Obama diaster that was the Iran nuke deal. Part of the deal was to fly plane loads of cash to Iran.

  12. Or, how an asteroid collision could halt global air traffic.

    What’s the point of the article other than incite the political whack-jobs (on both sides)?

  13. @Robert and @Chad. I think by now we all now that the person behind Gene has been suffering from a severe case Trump Derangement Syndrome. I hoped that he would get better as President Trump is out of office, but I can see it is not happening. He is so self absorbed, but spews hatred every time he decides to comment on something, whether here or on Lucky’s OMAAT. His comments has no relevance at all. I now just do not even read his comments, just look at the other comments. Rest assured I will not read his response – just wanted to let you both know that it is impossible to reason with him.

  14. I just want to know what airline the flight attendant flew for that only managed to get recognition (in the form of a crown of snack mix) from Southwest.

    Heard Delta through a big celebration for its covid retirees recently so pretty sure it wasn’t them.

  15. But Gary, you’ve missed the obvious connection: Should you wear sunscreen during nuclear conflict?

  16. Remember when the entire state of Hawaii freaked out because some hawaiian government official with Trump Derangement Syndrome sent an emergency text to the whole state warning of nuclear attack from North Korea? Lol. Now we have real threat from both russia and north korea and hawaii will still vote for dems and biden by a landslide???

  17. The threat to global aviation is a serious one, and something needs to be done about the insurance policies.

    There are two possible outcomes if Russia uses a tactical nuclear weapon- either an all-out nuclear war, or a conventional response. If the former happens, who cares about insurance payouts- we’re all probably dead.

    But if the latter happens, perhaps fighting is still confined to the Ukraine. But without insurance, all air flights worldwide and all air cargo will shut shut down. It’s going to crater world trade and economies. So they need to work something out now, just in case there’s a limited nuclear conflict- the language on those contracts are out of date.

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