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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Denuclearization is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes it's a good thing, but the US is utterly devoid of honour and trustworthiness and there's no chance they will actually follow through with denuclearizing their own arsenal, so this proposal is meaningless and no country should take it seriously.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

True. The US is the only country that ever used them and the only country where politicians regularly threaten to use them. Somehow though they get to act as if they are the only ones that can be trusted with them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

A good thing for the country with bigger conventional warfare capabilities, none sovereign country is giving up their nuclear deterrence after what happened to Libya.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is nominally a good thing. In the real world, however, I'd be working as hard as possible to ensure I had a nuclear program to discourage specifically Donald, Putin, and Elon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Those three aren't as bad as Netanyahu and he too has nuclear weapons.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sure they will denuclearize in the same way North Korea did after Trump negotiated.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why would North Korea denuclearize when the US still hasn't?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But Trump made a deal. The best deal in the history of deals.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did the US uphold its end of the deal?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As far as I remember, the US interpreted "their end of the deal" differently than NK did.

That's exactly my point: Trump will "negotiate" the same way, will brag about a "deal" in the same way, and nothing will change in the same way, because both sides aren't really interested in substantial change in the same way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

As far as I remember, the US interpreted “their end of the deal” differently than NK did.

And they will do it again. And again and again and again.

Deals with the US aren't worth the paper they're written on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Deals with the US aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.

The ethnic cleansing of North America happened one treaty at a time.

https://www.history.com/news/native-american-broken-treaties

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

USians can't possibly comprehend other countries having agency.