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nkrisc | 1 day ago

It’s good for them. That’s the point they’re making. All this shows that for many countries nuclear proliferation is the way to guarantee their safety.

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baxtr|1 day ago

Who is "them"? Definitely not the people.

"safety" for whom? Definitely not the people. They starve.

samrus|1 day ago

The people arent being pppressed by the bomb, but by their leaders. The odea that the US would liberate all peoples from tyranical rulers is naive. The US routinely installs and supports tyrants who allign with their geopolitical goals. Pol pot, pahlavi, pinochet, marcos, suharto, seko, the banana republics. Nukes didnt enable those guys, the US did

lenkite|1 day ago

> "safety" for whom? Definitely not the people. They starve.

Better to have privation than to get bombed and massacred in large numbers.

nkrisc|1 day ago

Safety for whomever controls the nukes, whether autocratic (Iran) or democratic (Ukraine).

Russia would not have attacked Ukraine if they still had their nuclear weapons and Iran wouldn’t be under attack now if they had them too.

I’m not saying whether it’s goods or bad that any or specific countries have nuclear weapons, that’s beside the point. The point is that this attack sends the signal that the only way to guarantee your safety is to have them.