Comment on WHO officials admit they are preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran

• backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same. The rest of NATO would condemn it and kick us out, but they’re not going to retaliate. Russia and China aren’t going to retaliate. It’s a chance to do it and get away with it to the sounds of condemnation but no direct consequences to the people who order it. It allows them to project their power and willingness to go to the extreme. I don’t even think it would be a move of desperation as much as a “because we can”. They love to be perceived as intimidating and project strength.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If the US nukes Iran I want my government to sever all ties. No matter the amount of damage that does to us, you cannot let that shit pass.

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    • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wish more nations would start severing ties currently, or at least sanctioning, imposing tariffs, refusing to do business with American based businesses. Hopefully people in other nations are already avoiding purchasing as much US product as they can. It won’t bankrupt the oligarchs but it’ll get passed on to the rest of us. Conservatives will abide all sorts of cruelty and injustice so long as people they don’t like are getting hurt. But you’ll never find a bigger “victim” than a conservative when the leopards arrive. His loyalists won’t turn on him but the ones who tolerated the hate because they thought it would benefit them will, and if they have to suffer business losses, foreclosures, and poverty as a result, good.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If the US nukes Iran I want an embargo. I live in California. Y’all fuckers better make a godsdamned example if it happens, just I would appreciate if y’all didn’t nuke me back. Or if you do, please send coordinates in advance so’s I can decide how much more ghoulification to go through

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• 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been waiting for this particular shoe to drop since 2016.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The US dropped 88,500 tonnes of bombs in Iraq. That was over twice Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not going to say what the IS did in Iraq was good, but it wasn’t nuclear bombs bad.

    They did use depleted uranium rounds, so they did spread radioactive waste indiscriminately, but the scale is very different.

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