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Originally Posted by Robbie
I think Jesse Ventura said it best on Piers Morgan the other night:
The only countries the U.S. does NOT fuck with are ones with nukes.
We've created a world in which if you want to be safe from the United States..you better have nukes.
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others have quoted this for truth, but I will do so again, because it's a good summary with a good source example.
nukes deter US conventional occupation attacks, and keep out the US empire.
iran hopes to position itself as the shia leader of a divided post-oil muslim bilateral (sunni/shia) unified middleeast.
we basically GAVE iran the nation-state of iraq by deposing the sunni rule and putting the shia in charge.