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(DIR) Post #B3mF8v6F8J3vm3VZZ2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-28T10:25:04Z
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Many countries have nuclear weapons and all of them make me uncomfortable. Russia, North Korea, the US... Is "this country might get a powerful bomb, possibly maybe later, we swear to God it's real this time" a good reason to attack them? Is anyone buying this at all?I think attacking a country gives them more reasons to make bigger bombs and ... attack back?Am I too naive to understand international politics?
(DIR) Post #B3mFOOVa4g9RKLjqhU by efialto@mastodon.online
2026-02-28T10:27:52Z
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@futurebird It's US the one that resigned from STAR, it's US the only one who ever used nuclear bombs against civilians. It's US who is attacking half the world. Get afraid of the US, don't put Russia or North Korea on front.
(DIR) Post #B3mFQLV4EKdWZnQeCO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-28T10:28:16Z
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I think I'm being gaslit by the media into feeling like this is too complicated for me to understand when it's really very simple. Nothing the US is doing is about pursuing peace, or making the lives of any ordinary person in any country especially the US any better. These guys are excited to have control of the US military and all of that power and are just making up excuses to do things with it. There is no justification. No benefit.
(DIR) Post #B3mFbaZ4YozAU3fBi4 by tasket@mas.to
2026-02-28T10:30:15Z
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@futurebird By my recollection, the evidence that Iran made plans to build nuclear weapons all dates from _after_ G. W. Bush threatened them with nuclear bombardment.
(DIR) Post #B3mFjsi2yzZf4joc3k by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-28T10:31:47Z
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@efialto OK but when you start there someone pops out from behind a tree and calls you an unamerican peace-nick. And then, because I am very anti-war and probably a peace-nick or whatever that gives me pause and by then they have started six more wars. Why does "you hippie, you want the US to be weak" shut down the conversation? What they are doing still makes no sense. Even if you love nonsense like "the strategic application of force."
(DIR) Post #B3mFknrwSsMELvsotc by GoblinQuester@dice.camp
2026-02-28T10:31:54Z
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@futurebird I get more than a bit stressed out about that the Temu Tyrant have (allegedly) have said repeatedly that he want to blow a nuke.And I believe he have said it, that he is serious about it, and is just trying to create enough of an excuse to do it ...I mean, with all the other madness that is happening, what is NOT on the table these days?
(DIR) Post #B3mFpPk1b9xcyCNXGK by rood@aus.social
2026-02-28T10:32:44Z
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@futurebird one thing it proves is that Chinese and Russian weapons aren't anything like they're supposed to be. This benefits the US in weapons sales.
(DIR) Post #B3mFr66HatYmdLamOW by count_01@mastodon.social
2026-02-28T10:33:04Z
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@futurebird No, you have the gist. The geopolitics of Iran are pretty rough, surrounded by nuclear powers they have to placate, bluff, or bribe at every turn, no matter what the internal pressures may be. If they become a nuclear power as well, most of that calculation shifts toward bluff, which no one knows whether that would be better or worse because it hasn't happened yet.
(DIR) Post #B3mFrqBWFl55YuObwW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-28T10:33:06Z
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@tasket Lots of people want to have bombs. I don't really understand why I should care about this particular one. They seem no more or less trustworthy than the rest.
(DIR) Post #B3mFuATZmX5T4bx452 by darkling@mstdn.social
2026-02-28T10:33:38Z
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@futurebird Oh, I'm sure that there's a bunch of other reasons in there, too from various parties. I just don't know whether those are at the forefront of the "reasoning" of the decision-makers, or just in the minds of the people feeding them ideas.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Iranhttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/why-venezuela-has-more-oil-than-any-country-on-earth/articleshow/128499683.cms
(DIR) Post #B3mG6YGh9H7EL3pccy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-28T10:35:53Z
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@darkling "follow the money" is often a good way to understand the truth. But I don't even think this makes sense from that standpoint. Not totally. This is more like what would happen if you gave me a big box of fireworks and told me to "keep them safe"After a few weeks you'd hear the cracks and booms of me setting them off just to see what happened. only, this is a lot less fun.
(DIR) Post #B3mGKFGiaMaxSzN82C by efialto@mastodon.online
2026-02-28T10:38:20Z
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@futurebird I'd say fuck off to every little narrow minded usanian with that spinned, twisted rethoric. I got tired of justifying myself to avoid straw man attacks for stating the obvious.
(DIR) Post #B3mGPrvWHc0YoJ8cwi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-28T10:39:20Z
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@efialto Do I want the US to be weak?This is such an out of context, notion that it short circuits my brain. It's so far from anything I'm thinking about at all. I would like to NOT die in a fire please. I would like there to be fewer wars. I would like the manufacture of weapons designed to kill people in the tens of thousands to be unprofitable since they have so few applications. We could manufacture other things instead.
(DIR) Post #B3mGjMdELYkFXgsan2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-28T10:42:48Z
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@FediThing Most people are not paying attention. I think they have realized that. But we could change this I think.
(DIR) Post #B3mGo2GZUavtpOVajY by kali@discuss.systems
2026-02-28T10:43:41Z
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@futurebird people living through that collapse of eastern europe & estern germany say: to stay in power you need more power, so everything authoritarians do only has one purpose: consolidate power. they told me never to forget this re:trump.
(DIR) Post #B3mGySuzFx6TNoNzPs by urlyman@mastodon.social
2026-02-28T10:45:35Z
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@futurebird zero sum gangsters with daddy issues. There will never be enough to fill the void inside them https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116147593290228667
(DIR) Post #B3mHoIZUyBcKLt3D8a by tshirtman@mas.to
2026-02-28T10:54:58Z
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@futurebird @FediThing it was pretty clear the negotiations didn't yield the results the admin expected though (realistic or not), so many people are unsurprised by the escalation, and certainly the iranian gov isn't either. recent events globally made it clear nukes are the only real garantee of not being attacked (ukraine/russia, but also the dprk), and everyone who doesn't have them certainly want them now.my only hope is that this get rid of this terrible regime and make the iranian free
(DIR) Post #B3mHvIXjTS50I5Yvdg by leonardof@bertha.social
2026-02-28T10:56:14Z
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@futurebird More than a century ago the US military was already powerful enough that the Theodore Roosevelt could simply "speak softly and carry a big stick". One might expect the country to not need actually going to war as often! Maybe it's simply a matter I'd justifying military expanding, ie making more money flow to contractors
(DIR) Post #B3mI2QIR2uTKMdnxA0 by efialto@mastodon.online
2026-02-28T10:57:31Z
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@futurebird "Do you want US to we weak?" Say fucking YES. You are not intelligent enough to understand the realities of those not strong enough, you are impotent with all your 'strength' of solving inequality, of stopping racism, of helping minorities, of healthing the planet? Then you maybe need to know "weakness", which will give you empathy, careness, responsibility, which will give you real STRENGTH, not some bully wet dream.
(DIR) Post #B3mIZOAHzWStJHiJF2 by jimbob@aus.social
2026-02-28T11:03:26Z
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@futurebird many, many countries have learned a lesson in the past year that the only way to ensure their national security and prevent the US from just...randomly bombing them or kidnapping their president, is to have nuclear weapons.
(DIR) Post #B3mIaCZAbI4ncvjsxs by jesuisatire@social.tchncs.de
2026-02-28T11:03:30Z
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@futurebird .. nobody expected the spanisch inquisition ..
(DIR) Post #B3mMmxmdH1zfMNNPzU by purrperl@noc.social
2026-02-28T11:50:42Z
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@futurebird Rumor:During "Operation Sindoor", where India struck military bases in Pakistan, they discovered that the USA had nukes at those bases, ostensibly pointed at China. For India, this is the equivalent of the Bay of Pigs.Modi & Trump are right-wing-strongmen allies. Modi has kept this shocking revelation quiet. If Indians knew, Modi's government would fall, for selling India out to American Billionaires.Largest strike:https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/02/17/india-historic-strike-challenges-modi/
(DIR) Post #B3mOVFLBSPhSVbDY80 by jik@federate.social
2026-02-28T12:09:56Z
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@futurebird There was an interview able Iran on Fresh Air the other day, and Terri Gross was very seriously discussing with her guest the potential reasons why the U.S. might attack Iran, and I was yelling at the radio, "All these reasons are bullshit! It's because Trump is a psychopath! Why the fuck aren't you discussing _that_?" It's absolutely maddening.
(DIR) Post #B3mW39BJYx2WvniILI by Meznor@mstdn.social
2026-02-28T13:34:30Z
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@futurebird the “death to america” people will definitely change their tune after this, right?
(DIR) Post #B3meyzOitanv164rYG by JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw
2026-02-28T15:14:31Z
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@futurebird I have a BA in international studies and an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies: you are right and it really is that simple. This admin does not have a coherent set of policy goals and is just starting a war to start a war, basically.The idea that the best way to prevent nuclear arms proliferation was proved decisively wrong by the examples of North Korea under Kim and Libya under Qaddafi, Iraq under Saddam, and others. North Korea got nukes, and the Kim family stayed in power. Other countries made deals to stop pursuing and those regimes were overthrown either directly or with US assistance. The lesson to authoritarians has been clear for a very very long time. This has been the rational calculus in global affairs for two decades now, and leaders all over the world know it.And regime change as a goal of US military action has been an unmitigated failure that just brings violence and death, and makes things worse for the people in those countries.We should all be uncomfortable and it is evil for mass media to launder propaganda to manufacture consent for these fascists
(DIR) Post #B3mg8FD7ZacccUcyq8 by NicelyManifest@mastodon.social
2026-02-28T15:27:26Z
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@futurebird Even here in the UK this is painfully obvious. Literally intoxicated by power to 100% blindsight themselves to what they are really doing to millions of decent Americans .. and now Iranians ... and indirectly to Palestinians via Israel.If only we could have political systems across the world that vetted EVERY candidate at every level to weed out psychopaths and the like and ensured they attracted people who care and want to help others.
(DIR) Post #B3mix8oFKe2VRaOEam by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-28T15:59:02Z
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@faithisleaping @JoscelynTransient "It might be a regime change."It's a huge country and it's gonna be a big mess. I have no doubt the government is terrible. But, people need to stop believing US propaganda. There is no magic infinite army that could topple any nation. It's gonna be bad if that's what they want. Bad all around.
(DIR) Post #B3mriEW4jMokO4rB7A by tobinbaker@discuss.systems
2026-02-28T17:37:14Z
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@futurebird I think part of this is that warmongering neocons like Rubio are being let off the leash in a way they wouldn’t under a normal administration, even one that was putatively more neocon-friendly.
(DIR) Post #B3n1OAmpt3R8ZOlmL2 by tripleman@mastodon.social
2026-02-28T19:25:40Z
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@futurebird For contrast, remember the fawning trump did on his meeting with Kim Jong Un. Countries without nukes very much took notice.
(DIR) Post #B3n7zHV8U7iXpmZInI by lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br
2026-02-28T20:33:30Z
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more reasons indeed.and let's not forget that the allegations about weapons of mass destruction were a lie.
(DIR) Post #B3oCkNUUcwh2znwN8K by LuisCrespo@mastodon.social
2026-03-01T09:07:36Z
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@futurebird I'm here
(DIR) Post #B3oE24FmzNmsV23thI by nachtrabe
2026-03-01T09:22:09.883873Z
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@LuisCrespo @futurebird blessed be the taylors the masks are cut to fit