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I concur with the argument entirely. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, why call it an ostrich? The same is true of the global stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction. The rogue states may wish to call them “deterrents” but if they cause massive death and destruction, whether deployed during wartime or not, why not openly acknowledge that fact? Good topic, my Kenyan brother! Thank you! Naked hugs!
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The idea that a few nations think they have the right to prefect others is abhorrent. There is no saying that they couldn’t descend to chaos and someone might just push the buttons. It is irresponsible to continue to stockpile these weapons while at the same time putting sanctions on others for trying to have them.
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Not to mention that some bungling idiot actually drops one of them while off-loading them to where-ever they belong!
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Or somebody becomes careless
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LOL! Ooops! I just “nuked” the world!
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As uttered by our Commander-in-Chief.
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It’s even more hypocritical when a nuclear state punishes a small nation for banning all nuclear weapons including those on visiting ships, as happened with NZ. It was a case of “We don’t want you to have nuclear weapons, but we demand the right to bring ours into your territory”.
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That’s the height of hypocrisy
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It continues. Even during the Obama administration, all penalties were not lifted, although most of the remaining ones are very petty. For example in 2016 the navies of a number of countries bordering the Pacific were involved in military exercises. The only nuclear state was the USA. That set of exercises was the first time since the 1980s that America agreed that NZ could participate. However, NZ warships were denied docking facilities at the naval base in Hawaii. The reason given was our anti nuclear stance.
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That, my friend, is insane
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Obama did say that NZ was a very, very good friend of the USA. I guess it is a bit like white guy saying he has a very, very, good friend who is African American, but won’t let him sleep in the white guy’s house because of the colour of his skin.
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Great analogy
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From the article insert:
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British prime ministerPresident of the United States could deliver an order that would kill 3 million people within an hour.”And I wouldn’t put it past him if someone hurts his poor liddle feelings. *sniff*
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“We came. We saw. He died.” [cackles]
“And we will make sure the Iranians and the world understand, that the United States will act decisively if necessary including taking military action.”
“There will have to be consequences for any violation by Iran and that the nuclear option should not at all be taken of the table. That has been my position consistently.”
“And Russia has to support the international community’s efforts sincerely or be held to account.”
“That Russia and China will pay a price. Because they are holding up progress, blockading it. That is no longer tolerable.”
Thankfully, warmongering Hillary didn’t win.
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IMO, being a “warmonger” is far different (albeit not any more justifiable) than a person who has such tender feelings, along with a deeply narcissistic nature, that he would retaliate simply because he felt a world leader insulted him (maybe by mentioning his little hands).
Please don’t take this as a defense of Hillary. I didn’t like her either, but I think she would have been far more mature in her decision-making related to military action.
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What’s the likelihood that someone with global financial holdings will initiate a nuclear launch over a petty insult?
I’d venture he’d derive way more satisfaction from tweeting that Angela Merkel is a nasty woman or Justin Trudeau is a low energy leader.
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We disagree.
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That’s quite something.
The killing of Gaddafi has left Libya in unending sectarian wars/ conflicts.
Assad is still killing his countrymen and women 6 yrs later.
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That’s the end game in a nutshell. The U.S. maintains its hegemony by creating or exacerbating political instability around the globe in order to protect its oil supply and the petrodollar that demarcates its value.
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All the while telling us they are spreading democracy, peace and human rights.
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Since in the history of the world, only the US has used such weapons. Any nuclear crisis in the last decades have involved the US, that is excluding the civilian disasters from Chenobyl and Fukushima. Any president of the US is a threat to the continued existence of the world as we know it, for he has the capability to launch a strike that can decimate millions, if not billions.
Your current president is proving to be a little immature of not overly childish. We can only observe what next he tweets about
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Indeed! The U.S. is the only country to have ever used nuclear force. And the president who unleashed it was a very thin-skinned member of the Democratic Party who finished his second term with exceptionally low approval ratings. (I think they were even lower than Nixon’s, but I could be wrong) 🙂
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And how do we know they will not use them again? We have no way of knowing.
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We could take this even further, and classify any state that didn’t prohibit its citizens and residents from deploying or testing weapons of mass destruction or from supporting such activities as a rogue state.
Perhaps not. It would leave very few countries as being a non-rogue state. Aotearoa New Zealand would qualify. How many other countries?
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Few others and these I think it could be explained as a lack of means not necessarily a non desire to own such weapons
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