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u/xander707

Thats true, but thats not the issue at hand. The issue is do we allow nuclear proliferation to happen rather than try to prevent it? Theres no disarming nations that already have them after Ukraine, but now going forward more nations will, reasonably, want to build their own nuclear arsenal. Do we allow that to happen where we are reasonably able to prevent it?
u/xander707

Sometimes, but how many times do we want to put that to the test? How many theocratic religious extremist regimes that believe they are acting in the interest of a higher power to conquer the world and spread their way of life, do we want to have nukes? All it takes is one time, one nation, to do the wrong insane thing and it could spark a cascade of further bad decisions leading to the literal end of the world as we know it.
u/xander707

Weve been lucky that existing nukes have been under the control of relatively stable states that have agreed to and practiced cooperative restraint with them. What happens when more states, more unstable ones, acquire them for necessary defense? What happens when those regimes undergo violent revolutions/coups? When the leadership cant be trusted to be sane? How long will the world remain this lucky for? Nuclear proliferation will not lead to prolonged peace. It may seem that way for a time, up to the moment it leads to something worse than any previous world war.
u/xander707

Yeah this is the cold hard truth. Even a nuclear alliance cant even be considered a long term solution. A nation needs nukes if it wants to prevent invasion, period. And the darkest fact of this is that invariably, at some point in the future, someones going to go too far in testing the boundaries of what they can get away with, with a nuclear armed state, and a nuke will be used. The slippery slope that event will send the world spiraling down could get unimaginably ugly incomprehensibly quickly.
u/xander707

Man for a brief moment that pie chart had me thinking Canada was just crushing it in world wide gdp.
u/xander707

Trump is not your ally. Nor are the Americans that voted for him. You should be concerned. We all should be. Not too much we can do about it though.
u/xander707

As if Trump cant bully the Republican majorities in congress to do what he wants. Theres been a lot of coping around here about how Trump wont be able to do this or that. A lot of people are apparently going to be surprised quite a bit over these next 4 years.
u/xander707

Putin: Im not sure if you are yet aware of the peril you are in, Western World, for I have N U K E S. You have ignored our previous 897.5 warnings, but this is the last, final warning of finality!
u/xander707

Theres plenty of non-NATO, non-nuclear European nations Russia can and will invade over time. They wont stop at Ukraine. Pretty obvious their goal is to create more puppet states to consolidate power, create buffer zones, and prevent any NATO expansion, by expanding their own sphere of influence first. Anyone who thinks Russia will not invade other sovereign European states once they are done in Ukraine, is suspicious as fuck.
u/xander707

Well said.