You have convinced me that destroying America, but not the rest of the world is hard. But I think destroying the world is now a lot easier than it ever was, and it is easier than destroying a particular power and leaving your own country intact. I think there are (or have been) some true PCs that wanted to destroy The US, but failed. I don’t think any of them (at least in recent enough history) wanted to destroy humankind though.
Usually I am very wary of arguments that spit in the face of large numbers. But I seriously think 10B humans is not enough to find such a person among them.
You have convinced me that destroying America, but not the rest of the world is hard. But I think destroying the world is now a lot easier than it ever was, and it is easier than destroying a particular power and leaving your own country intact. I think there are (or have been) some true PCs that wanted to destroy The US, but failed. I don’t think any of them (at least in recent enough history) wanted to destroy humankind though.
Usually I am very wary of arguments that spit in the face of large numbers. But I seriously think 10B humans is not enough to find such a person among them.