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Can we just leave countries alone, like we do with North Korea?
by 10xDev 7mo ago
Can we just leave countries alone, like we do with North Korea?
- AndrewKemendo 7mo agoThe reason people leave North Korea alone is because they have nuclear weapon(s)
- 10xDev 7mo agoSo we can only reach stalemate once a country has nukes and otherwise have to start blowing up their schools?
- AndrewKemendo 7mo agoAccording to postwar foreign policy clearly that’s true: Look at Libya and Ukraine for your most direct examples - give away your nukes, get invaded. South Africa is an odd example that proves the rule: they simply bend the knee to the west. Nuclear deterrents and mutual assured destruction has been the key driver in preventing large scale conflict in the “postwar period.” Everyone knows Israel has nukes it’s just a matter of when they can get enough public support to use them
- cameronh90 7mo agoMutually assured destruction does seem to deter conflict, but even assuming it works, it always seemed like a poor tradeoff to me. Significantly reduce the frequency of small to medium-scale conflicts, in exchange for an inevitable, possibly apocalyptic nuclear conflict at some point. Maybe not this year, maybe not for centuries, but one day, someone will press the button.
- lm28469 7mo agoWhy do you think Iran wanted to have nukes? It's the only way to not get raped by the US whenever their supreme leader decides it's war time
- extraduder_ire 7mo agoPrior to that, they had thousands of artillery pieces pointed at Seoul the presumed backing of China if the Korean war resumed.
- PepperdineG 7mo agoThey also have the GDP equivalent of JetBlue Airways
- energy123 7mo agoThe reason people left North Korea alone while they were building nuclear weapons is because they weren't arming 5 terrorist proxies and they didn't have a doomsday countdown clock in their capital city.
- 10xDev 7mo agoTrue, Kim Jong Un is actually pretty chill, just likes testing some nukes towards Japan as a hobby. Are people genuinely retarded? Or is it the severe Israel bias?
- surgical_fire 7mo agoBoth
- bigfatkitten 7mo agoAnd because China won’t allow it.
- thrance 7mo agoNot until they get nukes. Which is inevitable now, as we've shown Iran that until then, they are liable to being carpet bombed once a year by the imperialist powers that be. And then we'll have one more rogue nation in the world, hurrah!