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Tehran “is the principal source of regional instability and terror,” declare G7 leaders in a joint statement.

The leaders of the G7 countries on Monday issued a joint statement saying Iran should not have nuclear weapons and affirming Israel's right to defend itself.

"Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror. We have been consistently clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon," declared the statement, issued by the leaders of the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan, along with the EU.

They pledged to "remain vigilant to the implications for international energy markets and stand ready to coordinate, including with like-minded partners, to safeguard market stability."

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[-] wpb@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ukraine gave up their nukes, look what happened to them. Libya gave their nuclear weapons program up, and look at them today. North Korea didn't, and they're still standing, for better or for worse. Iraq was accused of having nukes, but didn't have them, and got destroyed. Seems that if you want any semblance of sovereignty outside of NATO, you better have some nukes.

So for any nations reading along I'll summarize the basic conclusions:

  1. Get nukes
  2. If you have nukes, do not give them up
  3. If you're accused of having nukes, drop everything and get nukes asap

Do you think Israel would be bombing Iran if they had nukes?

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago

Are you claiming that the world would be a safer place with every other unstable or authoritarian country having nukes?

[-] NewDayRocks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

He didn't say the world would be safer. But history kind of shows it is in each countries self interest to have nukes vs not having them.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

MAD safer no, but essentially disabling conventional warfare as a practical idea yes.

India and Pakistan are armed to the teeth, yet they haven't fought a real war ever since they both got nukes.

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

What makes you assume said countries would not act exactly like Russia towards others without nukes?

You're kinda making the point for them

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But then we're back to "would world be safer with every crazy person having nukes?"

Some are ready to watch the world burn

[-] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Who decides which country is "crazy"?!

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Religion mostly

[-] Leet@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago
[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

US is expanding? When was the last time US annexed a territory? Did you honestly just try to make US as a better example than Russia in this context?

https://i.imgur.com/AJinNsQ.png

[-] Leet@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

There’s Afghanistan, Iraq, and these days there’s talk about a 51st state, rumblings about Greenland, Palestine

American aggression and coups in various countries… there’s so many examples going back to Vietnam and maybe before.

Basically after the British cocked up so many countries in the world, it passed the baton to America.

Iran is one example of a country whose problems are directly caused by American interventionism.

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You wrote all that and failed to give me one example of annexation by US. Israel is annexing Palestine. Russia is annexing Ukraine. US didn't annex Afghanistan or other countries. The states/countries live on, sometimes better than before. There is a huge difference.

I honestly believe trump is BS'ing about annexing Canada.

[-] Barberserk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You don't have to annex countries nowadays to make them your colonies. You just let your companies take all the business there, exploiting the resources etc, you install a few military bases to serve your geopolitcal interests, aka war games, and just for show you let them elect your lackeys as local representatives of the empire. The american empire is the largest one in the world currently, even without techincally owning all that land. There is no need to, it's the 21st century. Power is not measured only by land.

[-] Leet@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Oh no, I didn’t. I gave you examples of the USA doing much worse things. I also replied to your comment about Russias behavior to other countries, of which only 1 they had attacked. How many did America attack?

In any case the USA would have stayed much longer if in their occupation of the Middle East if public pressure, suicide rate of their forces etc.

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Tf? How is, for example, doing a genocide in gaza (part of annexation) better than wiping out terrorist groups in Iraq?

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