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Nope, nukes will prevent that.

Episodes like these only serve to cement that Iran and North Korea are right to think that having nuclear deterrence is the only viable insurance policy.

(Delivery & effectiveness is another subject on its own but still)

Not sure why you're putting Iran and North Korea together here, as Iran is hoping for a nuke, while NK already has them, and has for many years. And yes, calls for toppling the brutal NK dictatorship have completely disappeared once that happened - so the theory is extremely soundly proven.

Because they're trying to get one for the stated reason of it working as a deterrent.

North Korea is not trying to get a nuclear bomb, they've already got nuclear bombs and have for more than 10 years.

This is why I'm confused. They're also not the only examples of dictatorial states getting nuclear bombs - surely the Soviet Union and China are earlier examples of that.

I was speaking of Iran. You could use other examples of successful nuclear deterrence, yes.

I thought exactly this. The first comment talked about potentially destabilising not only the country but the entire region. In reality it perpetuates violence globally.

What we saw with Venezuela was something nukes wouldn't prevent. Doing the same with Putin is infinitely harder, but if it did occur, chances are whoever fills in the power vacuum in Russia would be pretty happy with their situation.

> but if it did occur, chances are

With nukes "chances are" is not an argument.

I'm not saying chances are with regard to nukes, I'm saying with regard to whoever gets to take over Russia. In either case they definitely aren't using nukes because it means mutual destruction over one man who has 0% chance of ever returning to Russia.

Yeah, that was actually a good demonstration of a way out of Russian aggression. I wonder if that was one of the goals.

Scare Putin to shievers. Bro already spent the first year of the 2022 invasion in a bunker. I'm sure he liked that.

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