• SGGeorwell@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Because of his own personal shortcomings. And he was put there because of our personal shortcomings. And he remains there because of Congress’s personal shortcomings. And I complain from my couch because of my personal shortcomings. Everything’s coming up short.

  • BC_viper@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I mean I don’t support the attacks, but I also am not going to pretend I think the world isnt better now thst Iran’s leader is dead.

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      4 hours ago

      How do you expect it to help though? Killing a leader without a plan has not historically tended to lead to things getting better. What do you see improving as a result of this?

      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
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        1 hour ago

        Iranian people are into it. I hate interventionism and letting the orange dipshit play warpig as much as anyone else but if they’re happy with this then it’s good. We kind of owe them a lot after the last times we fucked with their leadership structure.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    I think the opposite is true. Countries afraid of US invasion already knew that only nuclear weapons could reliably protect them. The lesson for them here is that the US is apparently, at least in some cases, willing to go to war to overthrow them if they’re near to getting those nuclear weapons.

    I do expect to see more nuclear proliferation, but by allies of the US no longer confident that the US would protect them, not by enemies who would not otherwise have built nuclear weapons.

    • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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      5 hours ago

      Not just that. If a country knows they’re screwed, chemical and biological weapons could also be on the table. Imagine Iran blowing a bomb containing H2S in a Western city.