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Let's not forget who stopped it: Mitch "I believe he did it, but I'm voting NOT GUILTY" McConnell.
And for stealing TS-SCI classified documents
And his 34 felony counts of falsifying information he was even convicted for
Or for raping and sexually abusing all those women and children over the years
And for selling military secrets to Saudi Arabia, or skirting election policy by suggesting Israel ignores Biden's attempts at a cease fire during the election cycle.
Or for violating the Emoluments Clause.
He's just told everyone in the world they need Nukes or the US might attack them randomly. I'm pretty certain Iran will speedrun Nukes or just buy one outright from Russia now.
He has, but in fairness Russia told everyone that when it invaded Ukraine, who had nukes and gave them up! And also Trump told everyone again last year when he first attacked Tehran last year… and when he did the coup d’état in Venezuela.
Not to mention how North Korea is a lot more untouched than it otherwise probably would be.
North Korea was untouchable from the beginning due to all the artillery it has embedded in the mountains, aimed at Seoul. The Korean peninsula was a hostage situation whereby the North would destroy Seoul at the first sign of trouble and nobody, not even the USA, was able to do anything about it.
North Korea sought nukes not for security but to give it options for further extortion.
Oh bullshit
Also NK low-key has (had?) unofficial backing from China.
Has, though its been reduced as China doesn't really care about coal anymore which was the main trade export.
Also Russian support as NK artillery supplies and troops have been used in Ukraine. There was talk about the defect rate and it is a thing that will contribute to Ukraine difficulty after the war in mine/undetonated munitions-clearing.
They certainly should.
Yeah, the scary part of all of this is its likely to reverse much of the progress made for nuclear deproliferation. The reason that deproliferation became possible was because the post-cold war stability of those nations with large stock piles led to enough trust that other nuclear powers did not actually wish to use them that they could all collectively start dismantling them.
Enter Trump 2.0, bump up the crazy from last time but remove the career officials with any amount of sense that tempered his worst notions and replace them with violent, stupid, fascist yes men. Now he's breaking international laws, invading countries and kidnapping leaders, and preemptively bombing nations he's not at war with while threatening to kill their entire civilization... all while sitting on the world's second largest known remaining stock pile. And the country with the most is also in year 4 of an increasingly desperate invasion of Ukraine and butting heads with other nuclear powers.
To say the trust of the world has been shaken is likely an understatement. Those without nuclear weapons are probably justified in wanting them, and those with them are probably wondering if they need more.
Absolutely. We've pretty much shown that having a nuclear weapon is the only deterrent that matters to the US. They'd be stupid if they didn't rush to acquire them.
Iran should consider nukes ASAP.
M orons
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G overning
A merica!
so about $75 BILLION (they claimed $25B but aren't accounting for a lot of stuff) to push it back 9 months.
But hey it worked, we're not talking about how Trump trafficked and raped young girls with Epstein.
You forget all the money made from manipulating the markets! Release the Trump*Epstein files!!
You mean giving them a compelling reason to pursue nuclear weapons at all costs as the only means of securing their sovereign status has NOT made them stop trying to get nuclear weapons.
Trumps extended war just took the heat off of him for being a fucking pedophile
Much as I abhor Iran's ultaconservative theocracy (the USA's too for that matter), I can understand that them having nuclear ability would be about the only way they could be secure from attack.
So then what is the goal of that war?
To justify and further enrich the American military industrial complex
Slow it as much as possible
Siphon as much money as possible while corroding the economy as much as possible
This is sempiternal
Over and over again and again