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In reply to the discussion: Netanyahu to US "Don't ever second guess me on Hamas again" [View all]yurbud
(39,405 posts)The Soviet Union had as many nukes as us and sometimes more but didn't date attack us because we would always have enough left to wipe them off the map.
The nuclear that to the US from any other country is even less some The most they could hope to gain from nuking us is taking out a city or two before their own country was burned off the map.
Leaders of other countries may be narcissists and sociopaths, but none have ever taken military action that had zero chance of a positive outcome for their country and a near 100 percent chance of resulting in the instant genocide of their own country.
Evil and stupid are not synonymous.
That is also why Israel is so worried about Iran getting nukes--not because they fear they would use them in a kamikaze attack on Israel but because Israel wold no longer be able to attack Iran with impunity.