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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

MAD only assumes inevitability of retaliation. Mexican Standoff doctrine adds complete global proliferation so that nobody can be bullied.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can insaneify this further:

    Not only have total nuclear armament for every country on Earth...

    Every country on Earth also employs Israel's Samson Doctrine.

    Which is: If we're going down, we are sending a nuke at every nearby capital we can, ally, foe, neutral, doesn't matter; if we can't exist, no one can.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Which is: If we're going down, we are sending a nuke at every nearby capital we can, ally, foe, neutral, doesn't matter; if we can't exist, no one can.

    And that guarantees they’re never going to be existentially threatened. Now let’s have that for everyone so it’s actually fair.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    so it's either everybody or nobody, makes sense

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Alternative is nuclear powers do what they want to everyone else. As someone living in a non-nuclear capable state I think that’s something that should be fixed asap, for our benefit, and others must be thinking that too. Especially after how worthless security guarantees turned out to be.

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