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spencerflem  ·  105 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Palestine and the power of language

"once a country can make nuclear weapons, they can do almost whatever they want to any non-nuclear regional powers, using the threat of proliferation."

That's the weird thing about it, we're sanctioning Russia, confiscating their offshore funds, pulling all the stops, etc. I don't think having nukes is the only thing, and the situations are close enough that if the sole point was to get the respective leaders out of power, it's odd that our way of doing it with Israel is via giving them 14 billion with no strings attached.