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There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then needing to type “truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump” into your web browser to see if he actually said that. Once there, you can see a post in which Trump did indeed threaten to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, stacked on top of an ad for a sketchy herbal supplement of some sort:
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
Too true. The risk of using nuclear weapons at this point isn’t triggering M.A.D., but setting a precedent of permissiveness to use them in a war of aggression rather than ad a last-ditch tool for survival, in which case you can kiss Ukraine goodbye the moment we bomb Iran, and if Taiwan doesn’t capitulate to China, they will also be a target of preemptive nuclear strikes.
This is the nightmare world that Trump wants.
I generally agree with everything you’ve both just said but I’m of the opinion that ruling out MAD is unwise. Not based on likelihood but based on the severity of its fallout. Which is obviously the end of human life on planet earth