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I'm seeing lots of negative sentiment in this comments section. Just a question, why do you think you have the right to say who gets nuclear power and who doesn

I'm seeing lots of negative sentiment in this comments section. Just a question, why do you think you have the right to say who gets nuclear power and who doesn't? Why can America get Npower and nukes but SA can't?

harshreality 9y ago
The Middle Eastern countries have long-simmering tensions, both internationally and internally, and those conflicts do not make possession of nuclear weapons a good idea. Allowing more countries in the Middle East to acquire nuclear weapons is probably strategically bad for the entire world. Therefore, the rest of the world, including the evil hegemonic United States, will use considerable political and economic means to try to prevent that. And military force, if it can be done with reasonable safety, given that it's not just the U.S. that doesn't want new members in the nuclear club, but the entire world, including NATO and the UN. It's not a matter of "we're better than you, therefore we get nuclear weapons and you don't, ha ha." It's that our political system and domestic behavior, however dysfunctional, is still more stable, and we have some experience holding onto nukes without using them, having muddled our way (luckily) through the Cold War.
- friedButter 9y ago
  > It's that our political system and domestic behavior, however dysfunctional, is still more stable, and we have some experience holding onto nukes without using them, having muddled our way (luckily) through the Cold War Isnt US the only country to have used multiple nuclear bombs in a real war, but still allowed to keep them?
  - code_duck 9y ago
    ‘Allowed’ by whom? Themselves?
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    - friedButter 9y ago
      > given that it's not just the U.S. that doesn't want new members in the nuclear club, but the entire world, including NATO and the UN Everyone, as per the comment I replied to
    - el_cid 9y ago
      Even themselves. Might makes right?
mynameishere 9y ago
See, the thing about international relations is this: All those carrier battle groups, and ballistic missiles, and submarines, and main battle tanks, and commandos, and spy satellites, and long range strategic bombers, etc, etc, constitute a country's "right" to XYZ, where XYZ is anything related to international relations. That's why they are created and maintained.
friedButter 9y ago
>Why can America get Npower and nukes but SA can't? Mostly cause America got Nukes first
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harshreality 9y ago

The Middle Eastern countries have long-simmering tensions, both internationally and internally, and those conflicts do not make possession of nuclear weapons a good idea. Allowing more countries in the Middle East to acquire nuclear weapons is probably strategically bad for the entire world. Therefore, the rest of the world, including the evil hegemonic United States, will use considerable political and economic means to try to prevent that. And military force, if it can be done with reasonable safety, given that it's not just the U.S. that doesn't want new members in the nuclear club, but the entire world, including NATO and the UN. It's not a matter of "we're better than you, therefore we get nuclear weapons and you don't, ha ha." It's that our political system and domestic behavior, however dysfunctional, is still more stable, and we have some experience holding onto nukes without using them, having muddled our way (luckily) through the Cold War.

friedButter 9y ago
> It's that our political system and domestic behavior, however dysfunctional, is still more stable, and we have some experience holding onto nukes without using them, having muddled our way (luckily) through the Cold War Isnt US the only country to have used multiple nuclear bombs in a real war, but still allowed to keep them?
- code_duck 9y ago
  ‘Allowed’ by whom? Themselves?
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  - friedButter 9y ago
    > given that it's not just the U.S. that doesn't want new members in the nuclear club, but the entire world, including NATO and the UN Everyone, as per the comment I replied to
  - el_cid 9y ago
    Even themselves. Might makes right?

mynameishere 9y ago

See, the thing about international relations is this: All those carrier battle groups, and ballistic missiles, and submarines, and main battle tanks, and commandos, and spy satellites, and long range strategic bombers, etc, etc, constitute a country's "right" to XYZ, where XYZ is anything related to international relations. That's why they are created and maintained.

friedButter 9y ago

>Why can America get Npower and nukes but SA can't? Mostly cause America got Nukes first

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