Comment on How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran?

• JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It has implications for nuclear armament. Netanyahu needs a forever war to stay in power, and Iran is now further incentivized to arm itself to deter that.

  Other countries in similar positions are seeing how having agreed to a non proliforation deal in the past with the US has panned out for Iran.

  So more nuclear armament is probably more attractive to certain countries who don’t want to be the Iran or Ukraine of their regions.

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  • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That's an excellent point, there's a massive incentive and they can see how things are playing out.

    How has Irans deal with the US played out?

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    • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      For many years Iran was enriching uranium and various other countries were like, no pls.

      This is a massive oversimplification but basically back in 2014-15 Iran agreed to stop trying to build nuclear weapons capabilities (and have increased surveillance of what it was doing) in exchange for lifted sanctions.

      Trump of course undid all that, Biden tried to reinstate it, Trump seems to prefer to let Israel bomb Iran instead.

      So in my view what has just been proven here (and in Ukraine) is if you trust the US and don’t arm, you will get attacked by your enemies.

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      • LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh that's a betrayal. Lord that destroys trust.

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