Spare_change
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I guess you're not familiar with flight dynamics, huh?they could only reach CA and not much further.Their crappy missile would most likely fall apart during flight or completely miss whatever they're aiming for. But given the possibility that they actually did connect what they were aiming at, suppose they hit a large metropolitan area? In addition to the the immediate damage and casualties, what would that do to government services, banking institutions, and communications infrastructure throughout the rest of the country? What about the breakdown of order something like that might cause? Looting, rioting, burning, etc.
Hope everyone has stocked up on ammo, water, potassium iodide tablets, and Hostess Twinkies.
So let the leftist tell us how much they would apologize to them and call us racists for going to war for their useless asses.
Actually, it would be more difficult to hit LA than to hit St. Louis, and would require virtually no more capability. Without going into long and complex explanations, it has to do with the curvature of the earth, atmospheric buoyancy, and the relative launch trajectory required to attain the altitude necessary to strike each target.
The OP, however, raised a valid point that is being ignored in the rush to wail about the politics. The immediate damage (zero point) would be catastrophic to the local area, but in reality, the far greater cost would be to the economic and physical infrastructure. An EMP pulse from a single event has the potential to wipe out half our electrical grid, paralyzing communications, food storage, health facilities, etc.
Of course, then we'd have to worry about the damage done by the riots of the Never Trumpers, Black Lives Matters, and other liberal/progressive groups, wishing to get their share of the federal pie and blaming someone - anyone - rather than contributing to rebuilding or responding to the event.