• darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    Israel’s primary concern is that a nuclear Iran would provide dirty bombs to Hezbollah or other militants and bypass the iron dome.

    That’s propaganda. Their concern is the same as any unhinged settler nuclear power. Namely they want the right and power to destroy with nuclear weapons their enemies at a time of their choosing without those enemies being able to hit them back. It’s the oldest want in warfare and empires: to be able to hit an enemy in a way they cannot hit you back. As genocidal settlers they know deep down the wrong they work and how the region is full of people who rightfully hate them and they fear those people and need nuclear weapons to deter and intimidate them. It’s the samson option, the bluff that they can and will take out everyone around them if they fall.