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Old 06-17-2025 | 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer
They don't have one, and even if they did, they couldn't get it to the US nor would they want to.
First part is true, for now. But DPRK worked it's range up, IR could eventually do the same.

But there is an element of potentially extreme irrational behavior in their command & control, so while I mostly am comfortable with DPRK not launching on the US unprovoked, I'm not at all sure about IR... they poked the IL bear to the breaking point and got full FAFO. Did they learn their lesson? Obviously not so far.

Policy wise, they define IL as the "little satan" and the US as the "great satan"... if they'd do it to IL, there's absolutely no reason to think they wouldn't do it to us.

Also they are objectively the nation most likely to actually use nukes, and any such use would probably be catastrophically disruptive to the global economy. I do care about that, and want .gov to do something about it.
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