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Turkey gets to do whatever the fuck they want, and BRICs is not a military alliance

the US has zero credibility sticking to agreements & every two weeks a general or politician openly talks about attacking China. this is going nowhere

wearing hi-vis and looking busy works

but the actual content suggests these literally are just meteorological stations, due to the scope of the investigation “found hundreds of illegal foreign-related meteorological detection stations” seems like they probably haven’t made the regulations clear enough to the companies & stakeholders “foreign-related” is very broad and doesn’t sound like they can prove the data goes to foreign intelligence, just out of the country. which seems like something meteorologists would do routinely, weather is international.

Cuba does NOT have a nuclear deterrent! the threat made in 1967 had no power after those weapons were removed. the suggestion that simply expressing you’d use a nuclear weapon is analogous to actually having one is ludicrous.

Are you opposed in principle to imperialized countries like Palestine having a nuclear deterrent?

are you operating on a completely abstracted level? an Actually Existing Socialist Palestinian State might be a place that could use nuclear weapons. but that doesn’t exist! “nukes for palestine” in the real world is nukes for multiple non state groups just barely cooperating in a time of grave struggle. can you not recognize the danger that a reactionary force could seize control of them? that a nation divided against itself is a ripe opportunity for the infiltration and influence of imperialists?

one of the main reasons it’s still standing

Cuba had a nuclear deterrent for all of 13 days 60 years ago. They’ve signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Cuba as a very stable and well defended country that is no danger to its neighbors wouldn’t worry me at all anyway. the persistent thread here is the suggestion that places not like Cuba and the DPRK should have nukes

what are you even replying to because this is a comment observing a difference in actual policy between China’s numbers of warheads and posturing and Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons versus people advocating immediate and multilateral nuclear escalation.

these places have thought about it, in much finer detail and they don’t think they need enough nukes to kill every american or that nukes will singularly dissolve israel. how you can twist an argument for trusting the policy of these states into imaginary criticism is remarkable

“weird technicalities” a country having a government not in danger of losing its control of its weapons to a rebel group? what is with this attitude its a two day old thread and you weirdos are still going “nu uh!” without adding literally anything.

the US states and territories sorted by population, not Nevada’s page. but apparently the territories’ numbers not appearing on that table is only on the new dark mode, not the normal white layout of the page

24th in income rank

remarkable confluence because i did not look up income by accident. my mistake was thinking the territories in the wikipedia table were not included in the number rank because their entries in the table don’t have a number displayed. but it is actually counted which offsets the states’ relative positions. just put them into a different table, damn.

anyway i couldn’t find an actual budget document, just the 90% cut to the military on their website so who knows what arithmetic is behind this promise to Nevada.

Nevada is 24th of the states, hardly ‘lowest’. but without recreating their whole budget on the back of an envelope i would assume the very lowest states would get less than a 50th, freeing up larger shares for other states. Nevada particularly might be pegged for a greater energy investment than it locally needs, because they’re well positioned to host solar that can be sent to surrounding states.

35 is clearly the population(?)-adjusted proportion Nevada would get of the 900b.

but it is a bad graphic in that the largest investment by far in renewable energy is exactly the same size as the others

childish magical thinking, an a-bomb would magically reconcile North and South Yemen, all Afghanistan would start holding hands if whoever’s in control of Kabul had a nuke silo.

the Jamahiriya is the only state that didn’t and reasonably could have but why analyze nuclear weapons as part of the whole conditions of a state? they’re instant sovereignty devices apparently

“we” shouldn’t plan for worst? what “we” is this, because the nuclear proliferation and escalation being broached in this thread is not the line of the actual antiimperialist or existing socialist states, just a couple lemmygraders playing

fantasist shit, when were you going to give them one, before the Nakba? the whole fucking conflict springs from Palestine not being a real state that can control things like its borders, a formal military, or a nuclear arsenal.

no non-imperial countries ever have wars or competing interests, they’ve never done bad things to one another. listen to yourself.

if this was a salient strategy the USSR and China would have shipped off nukes to everyone who’d take them, but thankfully they were run by less impulsive people than you

maybe a campaign of economic interdiction, international pressure, and conventional resistance while maintaining an openness for negotiation so less suicidal zionists see a way out that doesn’t involve killing themselves. wait is that what the Iran-lead resistance is actually doing

what if Ukraine had nuclear weapons? you can’t account for every state’s internal security & political rectitude in perpetuity, if Ukraine had kept nuclear weapons to protect itself from the west nazis would have inherited them today.

indeed, israel makes a very good argument against nuclear proliferation

we’re literally under an article about a war being prosecuted despite a nuclear deterrence (the strongest nuclear deterrence in the world btw) but sure what could go wrong with even more doomsday weapons spread across even more actors with varying levels of security, political stability, and responsibility