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Case In point I own 10 acres of land in the USA and find the world biggest oil reserve or the world biggest Uranium reserve and I really really hate Britain for whatever reason you can pick. Does that give the UK to enter and bomb my 10 acres back to the stone age?

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Iran has consistently professed a goal of eradicating israel. Nuclear weapons are the method.

If you loudly declared that you wanted to genocide the British, and started developing nuclear weapons, it wouldn’t be too long before you were prevented from doing so.

[–] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Then why tear up a deal that would've kept them from acquiring nukes?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So he would have an excuse to bomb them.

Same bullshit GW used in Iraq, with the support of all the US media.

It's in Epstein emails, the plan to bomb Iran is 9 years old.

[–] liuther9@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

To attack and not get nuked

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I dunno, but I'm guessing it's the same logic that lead to him declaring that the deal (CUSMA) he negotiated during his first term was the worst deal in history.

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Because the dude is a dumbass who tore up agreements he made, idk if you'll see much opposition to that here.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

So you have a pretext to start a war with them.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No, it's Israel that's attacking 7 countries, has nukes, has comitted a genocide against a semite population, while Iran has no interest is having a nuclear bomb, simply because that's what their religion believes, and what the Ayatollah always said. The only thing that can convince them to get a nuke, it's so Israel and US stops bombing them.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk -5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Iran had a full nuclear weapons development programme from the 1980s. The US, Russia and China have all stated they have evidence that Iran is still pursuing a bomb, and the IAEA has recently found Iran in breach of NPT guardrails.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

lol, 2 weeks away from nukes foe 50+ years.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 2 days ago

Were they hidden in the girl school? Did they have a birthday party with yellow cake? Were the pencil sharpeners made with aluminum tubes?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

US, Russia and China have all stated

Very trustworthy nations.

Didn't the US invade a country based on a lie that they had weapons of mass destruction?