Video verified by AP shows Iranians taking to Tehran’s streets in large numbers to celebrate the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

    • VeryFrugal@sh.itjust.works
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      Which is nice given that even without nukes they showed that they’re more than happy to kill thousands of protesters and, well, generally make everyone’s life miserable.

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      They shoulda gotten them a long time ago. And Ukraine shouldn’t have given up theirs when the US pressured them to.

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        Ukraine had physical possession of nukes but no ability to use them. The Russians never let them have the launch codes.

        Ukrainian officials knew they weren’t getting anything worthwhile in the Budapest memorandum because they weren’t giving anything up besides a headache.

        South Africa gave up their nukes and decommissioned their nuclear program. Ukraine just formalized what was already true, the nukes were not usable for them.

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      It’s a good thing they don’t have nuclear weapons then yeah?

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        Are yo saying it’s good they don’t have because that way US could attack or because they didn’t use them to retaliate?

        I understand you mean the former.

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      This is a dumb take, this happened in part because Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons. Not just giving the US and Israel a casus belli but also the amount of resources pumped into the program was a major contributor to the economic issues behind the protests.