The same rhetoric about North Korea having the bomb and
the whole world is going to be in grave danger. North Korea never really
posed any danger to others, until the USA, Japan and South Korea
started provocations by conducting military exercises on its doorstep
throughout the years.
In reality, the whole world had been in
grave danger since the USA had the bomb. The first country to suffer was
Japan, with two nukes dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and nobody
said anything about the USA being the nuclear terrorist holding the
world hostage.
It is only a matter of time that Iran will have
its hands on a nuclear weapon for deterrence purpose and that has come
true. Unless provoked, Iran will now have the ability to retaliate. This
news is a real game changer.
Anonymous
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So does Cuba and Venezuela. They're right at their doorstep and thus most effective. The yanks should not have defecated in their own backyard.
North Korea is right all along. We truly admire North Korea !
The USA is always threatening those when it sees them as basically weak opponents. That was how they went into Vietnam, thinking the North Vietnamese were just easy meat. At one stage the USA had half a million troops fighting in Vietnam, on top of support from allies like South Korea, said to be the biggest force helping the USA, with about 300,000 rotating troops fighting in the Vietnam War. Getting entangled, they eventually found themselves fighting a war that they cannot win against the North and fled with tails between their legs.
The USA also went into Afghanistan, thinking it was a piece of cake with the Taliban farmers just using obsolete small arms compared to their big guns. They calculated wrongly and after 20 years of wasted effort, also fled with tails between their legs.
These are lessons that smaller and weaker countries have taught the USA that not all small countries are necessarily weak. The USA may have the same confidence trying to destroy Iran. They better believe than Iran is not that easy to destroy. History will bear testament to that. They Iranians are as tenacious as the Vietcong and the Taliban, and we know their history well enough. Iran has been reported to have tested a nuclear device recently and this is enough to tell the USA and Israel that there are unknown unknowns that may yet surprise them.
Israel faces a looming shortage of interceptor missiles as it shores up air defences to protect the country from attacks by Iran and its proxies, according to industry executives, former military officials and analysts.
The US is racing to help close gaps in Israel’s protective shield, announcing on Sunday the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) antimissile battery, ahead of an expected retaliatory strike from Israel on Iran that risks further regional escalation.
“Israel’s munitions issue is serious,” said Dana Stroul, a former senior US defence official with responsibility for the Middle East.
“If Iran responds to an Israel attack [with a massive air strike campaign], and Hizbollah joins in too, Israel air defences will be stretched,” she said, adding that US stockpiles were not limitless. “The US can’t continue supplying Ukraine and Israel at the same pace. We are reaching a tipping point.”
Saudi Arabia's leader Mohammad bin Salman was reported to have told the media some time ago that Iran's possession of nukes will not be able to use them, and that means it is not going to change anything, as Iran using it will incur the wrath of the rest of the world. He forgot that the USA used nukes against Japan and got off scot free without even a squeak of condemnation from the rest of the world. It was even fabricated that those two bombs saved more lives than what it killed. In other words, the innocent women and children in Japan were just collateral damage and worthless human beings.
Mohammad bin Salman even warned that Saudi Arabia will also go nuclear if Iran has that capability. If possessing nukes is deemed as useless as what he thinks, why is he thinking of going nuclear to counter Iran's possession of nuclear weapons? What then will be the USA and Israel's stand over Saudi Arabia's nuclear ambition if implemented? Will they threaten Saudi Arabia the same way as they threatened Iran? Will Saudi Arabia also be demonized as the biggest threat to the rest of the world? I would even bet that they will welcome Saudi Arabia's nuclear ambition, touting that this was the Saudis' right to defend themselves.
I think Mohammad bin Salman completely missed the point, with respect to his exalted position. Iran's possession of nukes, like North Korea, is a deterrent pure and simple. Unless Israel uses nukes against Iran, Iran has every right to retaliate with nukes. That is what having deterrents mean. Japan did not have that capability and suffered the consequences, and which invited the inevitable.
Does Russia, China, India or Pakistan having nukes a useless possession and cannot use them without being condemned? Of course, the terrorist state, the USA will use it. If the USA resorts to using nukes, does that not be justifiable for Russia or China to resort to nukes as well? I think Russia and China's possession of nukes serves the purpose of deterring the nuclear terrorist, the USA, from ever going to think that they can do what it did to Japan. Every country under threat by the USA harbors intentions to have nukes, even small numbers that can still do much damage.
The above about what MBS said was at a time when Saudi Arabia and Iran were still arch enemies, manipulated by the Americans to distrust each other. The situation has changed. They are now friends and MBS would welcome a nuclear Iran. He might use the same reasoning to acquire nuclear weapons, to protect themselves from the Americans and Israel. By now all the Arab countries are aware who are their real enemies. Definitely not Iran.
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