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More important ,ever since the multipolar great games resumed , they will have customers for nukes. Trump really was the final nail on deterence reliance ..
by ashoeafoot 1y ago
More important ,ever since the multipolar great games resumed , they will have customers for nukes. Trump really was the final nail on deterence reliance ..
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- ben_w 1y agoThat may be a long-term problem, but right now it's like worrying about high cholesterol during a knife fight.
- ashoeafoot 1y agoIts not, you goto look at how the actors in the region act and invest. Some of the regions rich seem remarkable calm towards a muklear armed iran.
- ben_w 1y agoCan Pakistan can ship nukes to Iran fast enough for the Iranian economy to supply in return a militarily useful quantity of anti-air and anti-missile defence systems? On a timescale of "shooting currently happening"? If not, that's a problem for the rest of the decade, whereas an escalating situation on this border could've already evaporated a few cities between me having read the headline 20 minutes ago and pressing the [reply] button now.
- ivell 1y agoIt is not that they didn't try supplying Iran with nuclear tech. https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/pakistan/nytimes03.html https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/pakistan/nytimes0...
- ben_w 1y agoDate stamp: February 12, 2004 This is why I'm comparing nuclear trade to high cholesterol. It's a long-term issue. The "knife fight" comparison is that they just got hit. The military needs are "literally, not metaphorically, yesterday".
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- dani__german 1y agoIts ok, most of pakistan moved to London anyway so we dont have much to worry about.