Unlike Iran, Israel is already a nuclear state, with a secretive programme that dates back to the 1950s

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      1 day ago

      It’s just an overused excuse to do all kinds of shit. I watched yesterday a video showing Nedanyahu claiming Iran is about to create nuclear wapons in various points of time, all the way back to 1995. What a clown.

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      I’m as opposed to genocide and fascism as anyone else here, but I don’t see how that’s different from any other nuclear power’s policy of using nuclear weapons when its existence is threatened.

      EDIT: nevermind, the article starts off by saying the nuclear weapon would be used against the invader, but then multiple authors refer to their launch to indiscriminate targets around the world, a nuclear winter, etc.

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          21 hours ago

          I’ve neither watched the movies, nor read the original. I didn’t know about this character before today.

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            20 hours ago

            It’s not a great bible story to base your nuclear strategy on.

            Sampson was a brutal man, a womanizer, a drunk, etc. He would fly into a rage and kill people, irrespective of who they were or if they were begging for their life.

            He was led into temptation easily, by his dick, with Delilah, and lost everything because of it. The Jewish people almost lost everything because of his hubris.

            It’s a cautionary tale of arrogance that almost leads to a destruction of an entire nation (Israel), and just before all looks lost, he commits suicide and takes a ton of Philistines out with him by tearing down the coliseum they’re standing in.