You know how we tried to defeat Vietnam militarily and it was a disaster with all sorts of US service members lives lost, their families destroyed and lots of civilians killed? And then we lost anyway? And then after we stopped and, after a while, we started trading peacefully with them? And then how now they are pretty neutral-to-friendly towards us?
We could try that.
Jokes aside, nukes are not that much of a deterrence these days. The moment you use them you get destroyed yourself. On the other hand, armies of smart drones and bots would win wars the way even ground forces can't. Why would anyone in this day and age invest in nukes is beyond me.
A nuclear Iran and nuclear Israel would be in a mutually assured destruction stalemate, which would drastically increase Israel's perceived cost of fucking around with their neighbors.
I have worked with many Israelis and Iranians... and I can hardly tell them apart. At least the ones in the US think almost exactly alike. And from my perspective neither are actually very religious.
You’re right, it would be better if there were no nukes on the region but that isn’t possible. That ship has sailed.
It was great to get to live my entire life in a world where nuclear non-proliferation was a goal that a lot amazing people dedicated their lives to doing and with remarkable success but that’s coming to an end.
That's a really big claim. I don't think you can just assert that Iran is suicidal without having some sort of evidence to back it up.
I don't know anything about their motives, I just think we should start with the basic assumption—until proven wrong, of course—that they understand the consequences of their actions.
...and what does the very same prophecy say about the kind of people who accelerate the arrival of the muslims' messiah? Does it say, I don't know... they are good people? Surely it doesn't say those people are literally the enemies of God, does it now?
Wouldn't it be great if Iran becomes our friend and trade partner in two decades?
https://thehill.com/newsletters/technology/5929290-pentagon-...
it is as unconvential as it can be already
these people have names and motivations to do what they did
Then school gets hit and it is "bad data" as if there was no one responsible for checking the data.
And in a couple of decades this stuff gets declassified and everyone will say „oh no how atrocious“, but those responsible will most likely be dead by then.