• DancingBear@midwest.social
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    19 hours ago

    I wouldn’t believe anything Israel is saying about this.

    Israel is full of shit, Netanyahu has been saying Iran is weeks away from a nuclear bomb for literally 30 years.

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      19 hours ago

      That figure is from the IAEA, not Israel. Also it’s actually 60% and I misremembered.

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        19 hours ago

        I don’t want anyone to have nuclear weapons but I can see why it’s in Iran’s best interest to acquire them.

        United States and Israel are literally arguing that by assassinating scientists and Iranian leaders, that Iran will be more likely to come to the negotiating table.

        Maybe that’s why Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, so Israel would be more likely to negotiate?

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          17 hours ago

          Yeah I’m not defending israels illegal actions, just sayings it’s at least based on something real unlike the fake wmds

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            17 hours ago

            Israel is the one who gave us the false intelligence about Iraq having wmds. I imagine this is a repeat of that. But we do know that Iran uses uranium for electricity.

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                15 hours ago

                So? Is it really that bad if Iran has nukes? It’s not like they’d be the only one’s in the region with them. Obviously it would be better if nobody had them, but in a MAD world, it’s just deterrence.

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                  14 hours ago

                  Yes, it only takes 1 stupid dictator to use one to fuck over everyone. Like as much as I hate Israel existing as a state, I dint want them to get nuked, and there is a very non-zero chance that they would use them on Israel. Then Trump/bibi might want to retaliate against Iran and at that point fucking anything could happen, the cats out of the bag at that point, Russia might justify there use in ukrain, if Israel survives it could use them on their unfriendly neighbours in “”““self defence””“”, and things just escalate and escalate until we’re all dead.

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                    13 hours ago

                    Ok, but there’s also a very non-zero chance Israel presses the button first. Like I said, nobody should have them but since we’re not living in that world, the next best thing is deterrence.