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Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

If that happens (would make sense because bullies pick on the relatively defenseless), how would the world respond? What allies does Iran have who would dare nuke the US?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm pretty sure the rest of the world wouldn't need to do anything. Nato isn't particularly pro-Iran either so they'd probably be very unhappy with the US, but not actually unhappy enough to do anything about it. Maybe some trade sanctions.

    I highly doubt NATO would consider it a sensible response to nuke the US.

    Also I can't see Russia or China getting involved. Russia won't because I suspect they don't actually have any functional nukes, and China won't because they don't care about Iran enough to risk a war. Obviously Israel isn't going to do anything. So that leaves maybe North Korea who probably don't have the range even if he did decide they wanted to respond.

    So I can't see how this would spiral into anything more, unless the US decided to use an unprecedented number of nukes and just cause nuclear winter on purpose, but I don't think even the Trump administration is that stupid.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Right! I agree with you!

    So, DT can drop a nuke (or 3, to, you know, be the best), obliterate Iran, and no one bats an eye.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Oh no there would absolutely be responses, but not to the level of military retaliation as he was suggesting.

    China would definitely use it as an excuse to build up their nuclear stockpile and the nuclear test ban treaty would be in tatters.

    It would also result in a lot of civil unrest in the US which could spiral into a civil war. To be honest though I can't really see the US surviving until the end of the century regardless, there's just too much hate and division there and neither the republicans nor the democrats have ever attempted to fix major societal issues.

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