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Is it that different than the US complaining about Iran/NK/flavor of the week?

• yoavm 5y ago
  What? Yes, of course it is. Do you not see a difference between a nuclear threat to, well, agreeing to the opening of a Taiwanese office? In what world is this even similar?
  • trasz 5y ago
    In what world was that an actual threat?
    • whimsicalism 5y ago
      From Iran, none. From NK, I'm not sure - I am not convinced by the rationality of their actors.
    • yoavm 5y ago
      You're missing the point. NK/Iran aggressiveness isn't remotely similar to Lithuania letting Taiwan open an office. As for how real the threat is - I'm not an expert, and I don't know you calculate threat, but NK does have nuclear weapon and it's probably the only reason why the are allowed to starve millions of human beings. They also literally, well, threatened to use it. Iran doesn't have one yet, but are lying about their status of development, enriching way more then required for civil purposes, and kicking out international watchers. Oh, and at the same time threatening to wipe Israel off the map. Saying there's no threat sounds like nitpicking to me.