What’s America’s view on this Tucker Carlson?

  • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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    1311 months ago

    Mutually assured destruction is pretty much why no one will ever actually go through with that if their target also has nukes or is protected by a country that has them. It’s one of the major reasons no country that has nukes wants to disarm.

      • Flying SquidM
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        111 months ago

        Sorry… do you think Libya with nuclear weapons under Gaddafi would have been a good idea?

          • Flying SquidM
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            211 months ago

            No worries. Libya did give up its nuclear program as well, but it was because all the countries that invaded Afghanistan in 2001 said, “do it or you’re next.”

        • @52fighters@sopuli.xyz
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          111 months ago

          Gaddafi would still be alive. Dictators now need nuclear weapons to assure survival. Look for the world to get real crazy real fast.

            • @52fighters@sopuli.xyz
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              111 months ago

              You realize Muammar Gaddafi only died 12 years ago and Russia only invaded Ukraine two years ago? Nuclear weapon programs take at least that long to develop. Ukraine and Libya had programs (Ukraine actually had weapons) and abandoned them, much to their demise. If they kept their programs, they wouldn’t have had these problems.

              • Flying SquidM
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                111 months ago

                Okay, but that’s not what you said before. You claimed, and as I pasted: “Dictators now need nuclear weapons to assure survival.”

                Please explain how the vast majority of dictatorships are surviving without them. Or do all 57 have nuclear weapons?

                  • Flying SquidM
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                    110 months ago

                    Please provide evidence for this claim. An age of dictatorships chart will do.

                    You aren’t just making that up, right? You do have the data, don’t you?