Ukraine as well. One is a story about why you should try to aquire nuclear weapons as quickly as possible and the other is a story about why you should never give them up, even if you think it's a bad idea that you have them and have serious doubts that you could maintain them safely or use them effectively.

It's like goddamned advertising for nukes.

It never occurred to me that the beef the US has with other countries having nukes is because it would put them on even footing. No nukes = no leverage.

Sure but st the same time. If iran was seeking a nuke years ago . The usa eould have attacked earlier when Iran was weaker

Anyone that hasn’t read Umberto Eco’s essay Ur Fascism that this notion is from should get on it.

That is kind of true though, but months rather than weeks.

The thing is, if a guy has a disassembled rifle on the table in front of him and you have a ready gun trained on him, he is minutes away from having a functional rifle but he will always remain so.

While true the fatwa do not get removed by the desth of the supreme leader. The new one should remove it. It doesn't seem the fatwa with be removed

They can attack ships with drones or even cannons. You don't even need to hit every ship. Even one in every ten will send insurance rates to the moon.

Yeah, fuck trump, he is 100% responsible for this whole thing from the beginning to the end.

Was Obama's deal perfect? Of course not, but was foundation that could be used to build on top of. With JCPOA in place and lifted sanctions Khamenei likely would be replaced with less radical spiritual leader.

Even with war in Ukraine, Iran at most would just remain neutral.

And that raises a question, how come everything he does ultimately benefits Russia? Even things that at first look like they would be against them, later on always end up somehow helping it.

That's what the "Art of the Deal" is. It works like this:

• Trump notices something that tickles his fancy (for some idiotic reason).
• he goes and mess with it.
• he threatens to mess with it some more unless the other party vaguely agrees with him.
• the situation is now worse than it used to be
• everyone hates Trump, the US is seen as more unreliable than it used to be.
• Great Success! Let's build an arch in Washington to celebrate!

US Oil has already been liberated by US corporations ..

Highly unlikely they'd use one of the ICBMs in the ground based siloes. This administration seems dumb enough to forget that the water portion of the nuclear triad even exists, causing a B-52 to be shot down with a live nuke over Iran. Thereby handing Iran their first nuke on a steel platter.

The one that has already been destroyed twice?