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JRPGfan 1 day ago
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SvennoJ said:
Chrkeller said:

Genuine question, anybody can answer, and I won't argue back.  Would the world be better or worse if Iran developed nukes?  Sincere question and should be easy to answer.  

And as said before, I get the anti US sentiment, I have it to a large degree as well.  

Short term yes. If Iran had actually developed nukes like North Korea, we wouldn't be in this mess right now.

Long term, of course not, nukes are a liability and even if Iran wouldn't use them, they can always fall in worse hands. Plus having nukes apparently makes countries think they can do whatever they want, US, Russia, Israel in particular. Iran would feel more emboldened as well.

However none of what Trump is doing is making the world more safe, only making more countries determined to pursue nuclear weapons as a deterrent. 

That is a crazy take imo....

You don't want madmen to have nukes.
Iran and its leadership are not stable, or always of sound mind.
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) keeps the world from falling apart, due to nuclear winter and nukes flying everywhere.
All it takes is one, very determined islamist, that wants to see the world fall apart, and views it as his sacrifice to blow the world up (with all the unbelievers in it).

The fact that North Korea has like 50-60 nukes, is horrible enough as is.
Them constantly trying to make better and further reaching intercontinental ballistic missiles, is not a good thing.
The fact that they can reach like California if they wanted too..

We don't want Iran to have nukes, right? I certainly don't.