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Nigerians react to this Holden Bloodlust (R) Iowa guy
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someone here is selling badly photoshopped fake california IDs 
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Trump is Putin's puppet, and that's a good thing!
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Talking about the "Right" to use nukes is pretty funny. If you have a nuke you've automatically created your own right to use it. You also have the right to be nuked yourself by your enemies immediately afterward. I guess he means Israel has the right to use nukes without consequence because they're Jews?
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Freedom of nukes doesn't mean freedom from retaliation and radioactive fallout, chudsrael
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The fun part about having that kind of power is you can invent bullshit systems where everything you do is morally righteous and force everyone else to play along.
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Sort of. The main component of the US defense strategy is simply having no nuclear peers. This forces everyone else into a calculus on what their threshold of how much of your bullshit they'll put up with.
Russia is a nuclear near-peer, so allowing them to attack Ukraine for 10 years and bite off small pieces sporadically doesn't go above our threshold with them.
Japan is pooping rocks about China's advancements, and worries that they will eventually start becoming an aggressor in Asia and start biting off pieces of land that they claim belonged to them 1200 years ago.
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Even during the height of the cold war, both the Soviets and the Americans had a mutual interest in preventing nuclear proliferation, and they were for the most part successful. Part of the reason George H Bush tried to prop up the USSR in the final years (yes, you heard that right) was because they were worried breakaway states like the Ukraine or Belarus inheriting their nuclear weapons.
Nuclear proliferation happens on a logarithmic scale and we're still on the tail end, as there is a "domino effect" of countries wanting nukes when neighbors have nukes. Israel getting nukes meant Iran got motivated to get them too, the Iranians getting nukes means that the Saudis are now motivated to get them. If the Saudis get nukes you'll see Egypt get them.
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Proliferation is a scary problem. But once you look at the difficulty to produce the bespoke cowtools to produce the unique components just to make an implosion device, it really does preclude a lot of nations from being able to make a functioning device.
You need at least 5000 centrifuges to refine UF6, and the engineering behind making those run well is also prohibitive, with at least three major export-controlled parts.
Plus, we are too good at using synthetic aperture radar and other tech to literally livestream when people are making nukes. And I'm 90% certain that most of our nukes are purpose-built to blow up everyone else's nuclear production.
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