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Originally Posted by PIMking
This won't start ww3. Iran is tryin to flex its muscles and are being called on their bluffs.
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What really sucks about this, is that countries are acting more like business than responsible agents that are mandated to protect their citizens from physical catastrophes.
Iran has been in the middle of a tug of war game between the West and the East for a long while. There are some that want to over throw this regime (perhaps under the auspices of security) to gain access and contracts to the oil and gas fields. There are others that are playing the middle ground to enhance their own opportunities by doing nothing (China / France / Russia).
Putting these games aside, this game is very unerving to the rest of us. Nuclear states have the ultimate bargaining chip. Iran may be developing this capacity to become a regional power - especially in lieu of its declining historical, and Sunni, rival - Iran.
Israel has them (come on, we know you do), India and Pakistan do as well.
This isn't a game that you can lose, and then reset and play again. This is reality, and you have to take the Iranian regime at its word. They're here to kill us. Why sit around and debate their sincerity. No one should be allowed to bully another with that type of rhetoric.
I fear that we may have lost our window of opportunity. If they don't have heavily enriched / weaponized plutonium - they have the material to weaponize a dirty, or yellow bomb.
Hate to sound like a war monger.... but this could go sideways.