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[–] 21 points 1 year ago* (65 children)

I doubt they can beat the US, but I hope Iran wins.

Terrorists like Israel need to be eliminated.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (39 children)

    Do you really want Iran to have nukes though?

    Just because Israel are horrible, doesn't automatically make the people they're fighting the good guys.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Honestly no but if I lived in a country or bloc without nukes myself I'd want my government to get them because its the only way to not get randomly regime changed whenever the US, UK or Russia feels like it. Totally understandable why they would want them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Do you really want Iran to have nukes though?

    Iran has the right to defend themselves. Without nukes, they're going to end up like Iraq, Libya, or the countless other countries that Israel and the US felt like destroying. They're champing at the bit to smash Iran to pieces and it's not going to stop at limiting nuclear capabilities.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Was Iran actually producing nuclear weapons?

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Iran has multiple enrichment sites, with a reported 83.7% pure U-235. Such purity is only needed for one thing, and it isn't nuclear power plants which typically only need 3%-5% U-235.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Haleu fuel is pretty common that’s enriched up to about 20%. Highly enriched fuel is still used for nuclear power on aircraft carriers that use 93% enriched U235.

    Iran is definitely just trying to make weapons but wanted to at least give some examples of higher enriched fuels

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  • Being that we know Iran sells weapons to Russia, I wonder where it would be cheaper to produce weapons. Would it be cheaper for Russia to pay to have certain things created elsewhere or in Russia. We know a lot of Russia's weapons in the past were built in what now is Ukraine. Examples would be their Aircraft Carriers, destroyers, etc. Hell one of their main Aircraft Carriers was named Kiev

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Funny how tankies always think "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". They have no capacity for nuance.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    All your comments ahow that you have no nuance either

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Feel free to call out these comments when you encounter them and provide nuance. I will keep trying to do the same :)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fair! I was following your example though :)

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Imagine thinking this was remotely similar to Ukraine and Russia.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Most definitely. I want every country on Earth to have their own nuclear weapons. It's the ultimate deterrent.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    You want 195 countries to have nukes?

    Then, it's just a matter of time until a bug in some software or a crazy leader that was or wasn't elected lead to the worst case.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Browsing Lemmy feels more and more like listening to people in a crack house discussing global politics.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And that's a reason to give them to 193 other potential crazy leaders, too?

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Lemmy straight up cheering theocratic terrorists

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The Iranian regime is fucking awful, the Israeli one is just even more awful such that Iran still seem like the good guys in comparison. Its like two assholes fighting, they're both assholes but one clearly started it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    given how the US lost so many recent wars, I wouldn't consider the US a military power.

    they are great at funneling taxpayer money to shareholders pockets. but they can't win against the protest people in the world.

    they invade, try to set up a puppet state, then leave with the tail between their legs.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    This. People don't like it when I say the US is a Paper Tiger. uS power doesn't come from its military strength but from its economic strength.

    If pushed hard, it would crumble. The only reason the US has military bases all over is to scare those countries into submission to exploit their workforce. Yet, all those bases are fucking expensive to just maintain. If those countries resisted, then the US loses its economic strength gained from their exploitation, and its military crumbles when it cannot afford to satisfy both it's military contracts and maintain its presence abroad.

    Not to mention the internal turmoil when the citizens experience the affects on society when the oligarchy can't subsidize the consumerist lifestyle anymore. Thought that's happening already thanks to the imperial boomerang.

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