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In reply to the discussion: Israel's Netanyahu blasts Iran nuclear deal as paving way for a bomb [View all]phantom power
(25,966 posts)Firstly, everybody's nukes are defensive. Big fucking deal. Our nukes are defensive. Russia's are defensive. Iran's will be defensive too, if they build them. Then again, it isn't really a "defense," unless you are tacitly willing to use them. This includes Israel, which you seem to think is just the poor "defensive" underdog, even though they are currently the only nuclear power in the region.
Secondly, has it occurred to you that the "arms race" has already been started? By Israel? Iran happens to be the country in the region who is closest to getting one next. Not counting Pakistan, which already has them of course.
Thirdly, are you seriously deluded enough to think that these "many countries" really weren't threatened by Israel's nukes? Seriously? Like Oh, now that Big Mean Iran might get one, now we want one, but not Israel! Because they're so stable and unthreatening.
Seriously?