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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 24

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Zack Beauchamp

    Seems like a crucial distinction.https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1496880068697927685 …

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    Zack BeauchampVerified account @zackbeauchamp
    Okay but Russia has nuclear weapons whereas Saddam very famously did not pic.twitter.com/i57ODgeWrR
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    • Swevenham AthenaMarks Bland Blanchard Chief Rando🕊🌻🤔 orac oraque Isaac Miller in solidarity with 🇺🇦 Will Harahan DragonflyMarnee 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 pythonic_bob
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      2. John Smith‏ @GOP_U Feb 24
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        How is the political media this bad? They did not used to be this bad.

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      3. Stephen Geigen-Miller‏ @Stephen_GM Feb 24
        Replying to @GOP_U @HeerJeet

        In all seriousness, what if they were and we just didn't have enough information to know it?

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Juan Salvo‏ @j_salvo Feb 24
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Pretty sure if Ukraine had kept their nuclear weapons they wouldn’t be invaded right now.

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      2. Stephen Geigen-Miller‏ @Stephen_GM Feb 24
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        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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      3. angry_bardeen‏ @C_R_Mile Feb 24
        Replying to @Stephen_GM @HeerJeet

        Nope; haven't forgotten that thing.

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      1. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd Feb 24
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        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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      2. Basil’s Rokoïsk‏ @utterlybasil Feb 24
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        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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      3. p-funk‏ @SunWuTzu Feb 26
        Replying to @utterlybasil @HeerJeet

        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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      1. Nick Lloyd‏ @NicholasALloyd Feb 24
        Replying to @HeerJeet @AlexanderMcCoy4

        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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      1. Will Harahan‏ @WillHarahan Feb 24
        Replying to @HeerJeet @AlexanderMcCoy4

        Maybe Engel is an, “actually Saddam DID have WMD’s” guy.

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