It’s just a platitude.

The left would 100% get away with any and all of this.

Short answer is yes. Trump has proven that any alliance is useless. So every country needs the ultimate deterrent.

Good point.

Actually, no.

We’ve heard WW3 analogies tossed around for the last 30 years.

I think it’s more fair to say that we’re not facing WW3 precisely because the world has seen the destructive power of nuclear weapons and they’ve proliferated so much. That is, obviously, particularly true for Japan.

No one is placing blame here.

They’re discussing the material factors that have led to the current situation. Lack of nukes is one of those, and it’s likely that Ukraine wouldn’t be under a state of defensive war at the moment had they maintained their nuclear arsenal.

How the fuck is it a good example?

Maybe think about it a little before speaking.

Also, maybe consider your delivery.

Do you think you’re more likely to get a good response by leading off in hysterics and obscenities? Or do you think you could have led this off in a different way, such as: “I disagree for the following reasons.”

I think the best example here is North Korea actually. Nothing stops imperialists in their tracks better than a nuclear program, and if we want a more peaceful world, the answer is every country having a nuke as that inspires more diplomacy and cooperation.

There was also a really fun video circulating yesterday of a Nick Fuentes hanger-on getting bitch slapped in New York in front of the “Young” Republicans event.

This is the correct answer.

The only thing that keeps imperialism at bay is mutually-assured destruction.

Ah yes.

The exceedingly impressive master race that is totally going to civil war us all.

Terrifying.

Every country needs to have a nuke, based on what we’re seeing the US and Israel do to Palestine and what Russia is doing to Ukraine.

Stories like this are kinda why I hope someone just presses the red button one day.

Not ‘settler’.

Raider.

It sucks.

And it was preventable, if we actually held legislators accountable for what they do. People, over the course of the last 40 years came to care about team color more than anything else.

They’re just not going to believe that the US can be trusted

Yup. The damage to the American brand is permanent, and that will become painfully clear when the post-tariff trade deals take effect within the next year and a half and trade routes itself around the US rather than through it.

The worst part is it won’t affect Donald in any meaningful way, because his perception of reality is wedded to his algorithm and his wealth makes him untouchable.

Kind of surprising to see this take after the 2025 elections.

It seems to me that watching a dozen or more former Trump districts lost to Democratic politicians is fairly good proof that people are dissatisfied with his leadership and governance, and the even wilder thing is that Donald’s aggression toward Venezuela has actually served to draw up some resistance in Congress. (So much so that both Donald and Hegseth are trying to establish a fall guy.)

Sadly, they will.

And Donald will too, even as the economy crashes for everyone else.

I could get on board with that.

Really wish the guy had at least shot the murderer in his hands, so he not only has to live his life out in prison, but can’t jerk off comfortably.

You’re right.

These two should have conducted their murders in a civilized way, like bombing people as they lay helpless in a hospital bed, or standing in line for food at a designated aid site.

Or, by blockading shipments of food so they just starve to death.

That’s the civilized, Israeli way to do murder.

If there’s a way to handle things incorrectly, Israel will find it.