| ▲ | bawolff 5 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> Israel has illegal nukes They aren't illegal. The nuclear non proliferation treaty is an optional treaty. The nukes are only illegal if you sign it. Israel hasn't. Most countries sign the treaty because it comes with a lot of benefits, but you don't have to take the carrot. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | adrian_b 3 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Therefore Iran and North Korea and any others have the right to make nukes. USA has lost long ago the moral authority to demand from others to not make nuclear weapons. USA were supposed to be the "good guys", who will not abuse their monopoly on having the most advanced weapons, so that the weaker countries should feel safe enough that they do not need such weapons themselves and that they should respect the non proliferation principles. However, with all the unprovoked wars started by USA during the last quarter of century, which have caused not only huge damages to the attacked countries, leaving them in a much worse state than before, but which have also irreparably destroyed important parts of the cultural heritage of the entire humanity, nobody can believe any more that it is fine to be helpless against USA, by not having nuclear weapons. Nobody has done more against the non-proliferation treaty than USA. | |||||||||||||||||
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