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0 pointskaibee2mo ago0 comments

> We obviously haven't and won't do this to a nuclear-armed country.

Right... which means that every regime knows they have to become a nuclear-armed country.

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Absolutely, this has been clear for a long time. Countries are only truly sovereign if they have a reliable nuclear capability, otherwise they are always at the whim of another country with a sufficiently powerful military.

morshu90012mo ago

They need the military either way. There's no country that just has nukes and nothing else, except for North Korea, see how that's going for them.

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0 pointskaibee2mo ago0 comments

> We obviously haven't and won't do this to a nuclear-armed country.

Right... which means that every regime knows they have to become a nuclear-armed country.

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solenoid09372mo ago

morshu90012mo ago

They need the military either way. There's no country that just has nukes and nothing else, except for North Korea, see how that's going for them.

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