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Like the nuclear agreement, where only a small subset of countries rushed into having nuclear weapons and restricted others from having any, and now it is extre
by csunbird 6y ago
Like the nuclear agreement, where only a small subset of countries rushed into having nuclear weapons and restricted others from having any, and now it is extremely unfair to other countries to not have the power but others do and enjoy having the weapon superiority.
No international agreement will survive war, they are just used to suppress and bully countries.
- toyg 6y agoInternational agreements are not perfect but they are still necessary. They are more or less holding in the chemical-weapons area, which has really nothing to do with restricted technology. Humans can (and must) agree to be better than frightened animals.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago>They are more or less holding in the chemical-weapons area, Tactical inconveniences that limit utility are what's preventing chemical weapon usage. Nobody uses chemical weapons because we have better, more effective ways to kill each other making them not really useful except in limited circumstances like terrorizing civilians (a static target that probably doesn't have gas masks) in areas where you have air superiority (e.g. Syria now, Iraq decades ago, etc.). Chemical weapons were mostly abandoned after WW1 because they just didn't work well enough for the effort and resources required to use them. Edit: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore/ https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...