How is the political media this bad? They did not used to be this bad.
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In all seriousness, what if they were and we just didn't have enough information to know it?
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Pretty sure if Ukraine had kept their nuclear weapons they wouldn’t be invaded right now.
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I don't blame people who post-date the Cold War for not fully understanding how nuclear-armed superpowers can and can't oppose each other, but a LOT of people who were around them seem to have forgotten that Mutually Assured Destruction is a thing.
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Nope; haven't forgotten that thing.
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The lesson of the 21st century for national leaders is that getting nukes by any means necessary brings more security than any number of promises from nuclear powers. RIP nonproliferation.
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Also, Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990 and the U.S. didn’t start dropping bombs until FIVE MONTHS later, so the comparison doesn’t quite work on its own terms.pic.twitter.com/5EFoB2ESJv
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And after Iraq had been catastrophically weakened by a decade of war with Iran. So few people seem to have an awareness of the kinds of states the US has gone to war against in the nuclear age.
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If Russia had the exact military they do now but no nukes, there’s a very good chance we would be rolling tanks from Poland into Ukraine right now.
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Maybe Engel is an, “actually Saddam DID have WMD’s” guy.
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