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Old 8th Dec 2020, 22:55
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After the Libya experience, no authoritarian state leader will ever surrender their nuclear franchise. It is cheap enough that even North Korea can afford it, while it ensures that your country will not become a 'regime change' project.
So logically the prospect is for a Turkish bomb, a Saudi bomb, perhaps an Egyptian bomb, along with Indonesian, Vietnamese and South Korean, perhaps even Venezuelan and Cuban ones.

Optimistically, this should reduce the absurd interventions in the name of 'nation building' or 'anti terrorism' that are discrediting the entire leadership of the Western world.
However, one has to be queasy at best at the prospect of these things routinely available to leaders of questionable stability.... Certainly there is no obvious improvement if Norway, Sweden and Luxembourg get bombs as well.
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