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Originally Posted by Thor
Before what is too late? We had how many decades of MAD with the USSR before they collapsed, what makes you think N Korea or Iran would be stupid enough to take any action which would give the west an excuse to invade or attack them?
Sorry but potentially killing millions of South Koreans is never worth the risk, contain, isolate and continue doing what has been happening to N Korea, smuggling in USB sticks with TV shows, music, news, eventually this regime will collapse.
With Iran the youth of that nation in about 10-20 years will be the overwhelming people in positions of power, a youth that is quite pro west, far more liberal than the ruling class now. Again contain, sanction if you have to, but its stupid to attack them especially considering they are not stupid enough to attack anyone themselves, just like Pakistan which is about the only really truly worrisome country because they have such a significant insurgent and growing extremist presence there which if they got a hold of the nuclear arsenal would be instant reason for the west to invade or attack.
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The real irony of Iran is that's its people have always been incredibly pro western (and frankly despise Arabs as being beneath them), it's only the incredible stupidity of the US that has stopped Iran from being the beacon of western democracy that the US would like in the region