Non-Americans: what would you do in a situation where a foreign country run by a extremist dictator began producing nukes?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pacattack57@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I’ll preface this by saying I’m an American who hates Trump, his regime, and everything they stand for.

Every president has done some version of Venezuela and they always justify it with some Bs so I got to thinking what would I do in a situation where I was president and my intelligence community showed me proof that some dictator in a country that doesn’t really like us was creating nukes. Assuming you have all the correct information and it’s 100% true of course.

You can go around and around saying you need more info and all that. Let’s just assume they are building nukes and you know they will use it as leverage to harm your people economically or militarily

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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Nothing.

You’ve all been brainwashed into thinking everyone else is a threat

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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Let them. We are a country run by an extremist dictator with enough nukes to end the world multiple times over. Our historical adversary is a country run by an extremist dictator with enough nukes to end the world multiple times over. Our largest trading partner is an extremist dictator with enough nukes to end the world multiple times over.

As history has taught, having nukes is -apparently- one of the only ways to make imperialists hesitate when they have more power.

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slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The same thing I do every time a hostile government, like the US, Russia, Israel, France, North Korea, etc gains nukes, nothing.

There are enough out there and I live within a target zone that there is no point in doing anything.

Nukes are entirely for posture. Everyone knows that once you turn that lever, there is no going back.

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- JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  hostile government, like the… France
  
  France? Care to explain?
  
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  - slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Their actions surrounding the telegram ceo, graphineOS, and letting war criminals fly unimpeded through their air space.
    
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DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Remember democracy doesn’t mean more intelligent people in power just we decide which dumbass fucks the country for capitalists.

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- TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Slight correction: Two-party, first past the post democracy means that only 51% of the population decide which dumbass fucks the country while the other 49% effectively get zero say or representation in government.
  
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  - danciestlobster@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Additional addendum: in the US with the electoral college, if you get the exact right people, you can theoretically win elections with about 23% of the popular vote, and the elected president had 51+% of the popular vote like…half the time lately
    
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I mean, Trump barely even bothered to justify what they did in Venezuela. It’s pretty much completely naked imperialism.

The “they have nukes and are going to leverage them against us in some way” thing sounds more like the 2003-era justifications where they actually put some effort into it.

And what does “leverage” mean? If it just means that they use it to defy my country’s imperial ambitions, what I should do about that is to go fuck myself.

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6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Like North Korea? Trump has done nothing so far except shake the guy’s hands. That’s your answer.

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- rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  IIRC he also saluted one NK’s general, which was a breach of protocol and overall rather uncharacteristic of him.
  
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essell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Personally?

I doubt the government, military or intelligence agencies are going to be asking for my input.

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ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You do know that countries only start producing nukes in order to fend off big external threats, right? Big external threats like Russia, China or USA

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palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Based on the actions of my own government, the correct behaviour is to appease, play nice and hope he uses lube when he ultimately comes to f--k us.

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Drbreen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I mean Trump is already a wannabe dictator going around doing what he wants with no consequence. It’s learned behaviour from his child raping days.

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- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  His child raping days stopped?
  
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  - Drbreen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    One could only hope.
    
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s called Russia, and it’s been happening since the 1950s.

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skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I would understand that there is a massive difference between an unhinged crazy controlling weapons of mass destruction, and a tin pot tyrant who is simply hindering oil company profits.

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Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Nukes? LOL

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