• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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        We already have nukes and let religious extremists control them in the US.

        Maybe we should do something about that first.

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          Yes, the country seems to be going backwards, but I don’t believe that anyone reasonable in the US would agree to nuking another country for religious reasons. Iran might.

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            Donald Trump literally said 2 days ago he was thinking about nuking Iran.

            Come back to the real world, we’re no better than them and we’re proving it on a global stage right now.

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              Look I don’t disagree. I’m not happy with the way things are going here. That doesn’t change the fact that Iran with a nuke would be a bad thing. If Joe Biden did this you’d be looking for ways to defend it. I am not a Trump fan at all. You can see my comment history. I’m just talking about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be.

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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        Frankly, I do want Iran to have nukes. The region is so unstable precisely because there is one aggressive expansionist military power in the region, with no other nuclear power to balance them out. Iran hasn’t declared war on another country for over two centuries. Israel is currently invading, occupying, or bombing the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. And they’re led by a radical religious movement explicitly hellbent on expanding Israel’s borders from the Nile to the Euphrates, gobbling up entire nations in the process.

        You’re damn right I want Iran to have nukes. All evidence suggests they will be far more responsible with them than Israel is.