• PacketPilgrim
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    5 days ago

    Yes and no, it would have cost a lot more to go in there and get the nuclear material if they do surrender it. That is the big if though.

    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      Don’t sanewash their bullshit, man. US and Israel attacked Iran to distract from Gaza, further destabilize the region, attempt to push Iranian citizens into revolt, and weaken Lebanon by attacking their ally. They thought it would be an easy in-and-out like the 12‐day war last year. This was never about nukes, cause how the fuck could it be?

        • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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          I don’t give a single shit if Iran gets nukes. If Iran had nukes, then the psychos in Washington would have to think twice the next time they decide they want to jerk off to bombing schoolchildren.

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          Here’s the thing. No one should have nukes. But, because those of them with them refuse to give them up, and they start another war every quarter, backyard diplomacy dictates that you join the MAD club. Those fucks want to pretend like everyone’s playing by the rules when they’re still acting the fucking colonist, then I say every country on earth should have nukes cause these fuckheads can’t act right. Wouldn’t be destabilizing the middle east if any one of them could end it all if you tried anything.

          North Korea got nukes, suddenly no one’s interested in turning up the heat on them any more. Hmm, odd that.

    • arctanthrope@lemmy.world
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      Obama negotiated a deal where we could literally walk in and inspect their facilities capable of refining nuclear material at any time for the price of a plane ticket. the only reason there’s concern that they’re producing weapon-grade nuclear material is because Trump couldn’t handle the idea of a black man accomplishing something and wiped his ass with that agreement

      • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip
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        Obama’s deal would have let them enrich as much as they want after 2030, and it let go almost all sanctions to buy them off just for that.

        Might have sounded great in 2015, but it was basically just dumping double the amount of shit on the next generation

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          Would it? Is it so bad if they had a nuke? MAD has still held. And throughout this conflict Iran has hardly been the one you’d describe as irrational.