• dead [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    The purpose of this CIA Harris video is for him to say that the US has defensive nukes, he says in the video that the US protects it’s allies with nukes. Then he says that Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea have nukes for unknown and possibly nefarious reasons.

    He doesn’t mention Israel having nukes. During the sponsored, he uses “ground news” to examine whether Iran should have nuclear weapons. He says that Al Jazeera “downplays the threat” of Iran creating nukes and “casting doubt on the international narrative”.

    international-community-1 “international narrative” international-community-2

    Then he pulls up an Israeli news site which says that Iran has the materials to produce 10 nuclear bombs. He says that Israel news “cuts right to the chase” but is only “slightly misleading”.

    He mentions the Cuban missile crisis late in the video. He doesn’t mention that the US deployed nukes in Turkey prior to the USSR deploying nukes in Cuba.

    I think the main purpose of this video is to fear monger Iran having nukes. The video also postures that China is acquiring nukes for nefarious global control.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      You’re probably right, but as long as it helps remind people that we’re all fucked if a nuclear war starts then it’s a net positive in my book.

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        That’s now how people perceive propaganda like this. They don’t stop and think introspectively. They don’t think, “wow, nobody should have nukes” or if they do then they don’t walk away with any plan of action to pressure their own governments in the west to disarm. There is no call to action.

        What is is meant to do is make you scared and impotent. Then when the time comes for action to be taken on your behalf you think, “this is getting rid of some nukes and that’s good.” So you end up saying some lib-ass shit like, “well I don’t support the USA but isn’t ensuring that Iran doesn’t have nukes a net good? That’s why I support bombing them.” In the end this doesn’t make the world safer from the nuclear threat. Instead, it makes us less safe because it ensures that countries understand that acquiring nukes is the only way they can ensure their sovereignty because not even the citizens of the western aggressors will oppose aggression.

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            It did. And they went on to support the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, which puts us in greater danger of a nuclear war scenario.

            What I want is something that stops people from supporting western aggression against developing nations who have nukes or could develop nukes. This not only does not accomplish that but actively does the opposite.

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                no, they werent. they voted for a guy who has been virulently anti-iran and has bombed iranian officials and has alluded to bombing iran and surrounded himself with people who are open about the desire to bomb iran. whatever they say about it their actions are absolutely and unmistakably “bomb-iran”. they were 100% for it. and all of that is around the fear mongering over iranian nuclear weapons and preventing iranian procurement of them, something videos like this fuel

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                    2 days ago

                    this platform was absolutely under the auspices that bombing iran to prevent nuclear proliferation was part of it

                    they are two separate things and were always presented this way by the trump camp

                    HE ALREADY BOMBED IRANIANS IN HIS FIRST PRESIDENCY i cannot stress this enough and also said he would do so again this was no secret and his base absolutely knew he was going to do this fuck on my street they set off fireworks when he bombed iran all the little trump flaggers were out with bottle rockets and sparklers