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        It had, one of the reasons the US pulled its support for the appartheit govt was the promise of the anti-appartheit coalition to destroy the nuclear arsenal. Can’t have non-whites with nukes, can we? Even worse, non-whites which are socialists.

        This allowed the west to prevent any development beyond a bourgoise dictatorship as the post appartheit government. Without that shit, SA would most likely be a AES.

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    No one here can predict the future, but I honestly find that highly unlikely. Not a single nuclear bomb was thrown in an opposing country since 1945

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      A big part of the reason no one has used nukes in any of the post-WWII conflicts is sheer dumb luck since the 50s there’s been a real threat of out-of-control escalation, if not complete global annihilation. You think twice about nuking someone if it means you’ll get nuked back.

      If Israel nukes Syria or Iran, who would retaliate in kind? It’s a fundamentally different scenario than the Cold War, or the India-Pakistan situation, etc.

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    I think the first question above “will they deploy nukes” is against whom?

    Nuking themselves? Settlers are privileged, they’ll want to go back to that privileged life.

    Nuking neighboring countries? That’s just opening them up to retaliation from other nuclear powers.

    Nuking Palestinian territories? I’m not sure they’ll be able to do that without at least the fallout hitting them back.

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    There is this report that Israel tried to nuke Iran but they managed to take out the F35.