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indusurb

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5. Frankly the best thing for everybody might just be to let them develop a nuke
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 01:19 AM
Yesterday

Nukes are about the most useless weapons in the world. The only thing they're good for, aside from eating up money in maintenence and upgrade costs, is to serve as a deterrent. That's it, nobody is going to use one offensively because if they do, others will rain nuclear fire down on them. He dies, she dies, everybody dies and nobody wants that, even the craziest regimes out there. At one time we were worried about Pakistan getting a nuke, yet they did, and they recognize that if they drop it, nuclear capable India, along with others, will bomb the shit out of them. Then everybody was worried about the crazy Kim's in N. Korea getting a nuke. Yet now they have them, and Kim Jong Un recognizes he and his country will be nuked to glass if they drop the big one on S. KoreI.

Iran is not stupid, they recognize that if they launch a nuke at Isreal, the US or anybody else they're about ten minutes away from annihilation. They simply want the security of having a deterrent, since Israel and US both keep rattling that nuclear Saber at them. So I say let them have their nuclear security blanket, I think in the long run it would be the best thing going.

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