• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    France, Germany, the US, and UK are all issuing official statements in full support of Israel’s attack, and the US is moving some naval vessels to the ME to defend its little brother. Only China and Russia are going to oppose them on the UN security council.

    How’s it going “enlightened democracies”?

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      None of them want Iran to have nuclear weapons. They are probably fine with Israel doing the dirty work.

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          20 days ago

          Countries allowed to have nukes:

          • countries that already have them
          • countries that make them before someone stops them

          Don’t forget China, India, and Pakistan all have nukes.

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    Iran is illegally building a nuclear weapon for illegal self defense and Israel is doing a Jack Bauer to stop them.

    Obviously, Germany - a country with a long and storied history of liberal democratic values and anti-war principles - will come down on the right side of this conflict. There’s no way they’d just align with a Middle Eastern Imperialist power looking to dominate and ethically cleanse a region of its native people.

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      France being famous for having disposed of all 290 of its own nuclear weapons, of course.

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      It’s amazing how France and Germany seem to have the same view after US has been pushing the nuclear path. Feels like some play book is being acted out.

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      Didn’t click on the link but based on the last 8 years, anything Macron says has a strong probability of being dogshit made to sound plausible and appealing to the end user.
      We had chatgpt as president before chatgpt was the hype.
      So whatever he wrote on the nazi social network, take it with a huge pinch of salt.

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    In 2023, Germany said: “Confronted with an openly aggressive Russia, the importance of nuclear deterrence has increased for many states, including for [Germany].

    Germany is one of five NATO members to host US nuclear weapons on its territory as part of a nuclear-sharing agreement. The German air force is assigned approximately 15 B61 nuclear bombs, which are deployed at the Büchel air base.

    In 2016, Germany voted against the UN General Assembly resolution that established the formal mandate for states to commence negotiations on “a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination”.

    https://www.icanw.org/germany

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      20 days ago

      Germany: Nuclear weapons are good actually

      Also Germany: Ban nuclear power return to burning coal

      Guess they don’t like nuclear if it doesn’t involve killing people

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      Always Sunny memes are perfect for modern international politics.

      And I guess we’re maybe all going to die because we keep letting idiots lead our countries.

      I would get politically active to try to help, but that feels like Charlie work.

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    Albert Einstein was 100% correct. I am ashamed of the politicians in Germany who fail to learn the lessons from WWII.

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    Worse hypocrisy than “Russia has no right to defend itself”. Prior to US led nazi coup in 2014, Russia and Ukraine had close economic/political ties, even as supposed Russian stooge President was exploring in good faith EU membership. Coup was designed to sabotage that relationship, with direct NATO/nazi threats to Russia.

    Israel’s relationship with neighbours and Iran has never been defensive. Europe’s rulers always siding with US empire, even as US attacks it, is deeply traitorous. JCPOA process, appears to be the same EU deception as Minsk accords or 2 state solution Norway/Camp David BS. Germany, specifically has no chill between nazi and zionazi extremes.

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      After how US and Europe handled ukraine, you would have to be an idiot to not get nukes from geo political perspective.

      Israel has nukes, Israel is the enemy of American people who cause us a lot more issues then Iran.

      I really don’t care if Iran has nukes. They prolly should so Israel quits trying to draw US into another war like they did with Iraq.

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        Nuclear weapons don’t help anyone. There are already enough nuclear powers.

        I don’t understand your second sentence. Isreal is actually nothing but a proxy state of the US. Just like a nice little outpost. So US and Isreal are already big buddies. I very much believe that the US plays a very big role in this attack on Iran.

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      Why not? Surely they understand that nuking someone would lead to themselves being nuked in retaliation.

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      Iran with nuclear weapons is a nuisance for all civilized countries countries that want to bomb Iran with impunity

      Thank God the pillar of stability Israel has nukes, though. They aren’t aggressive like Iran, they’re only at war with half their neighbors.