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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Israel has nukes - what about that Non-proliferation treaty Germany?

[–] [email protected] 91 points 4 days ago (1 children)

France, Germany, the US, and UK are all issuing official statements in full support of Israel's attack, and the US is moving some naval vessels to the ME to defend its little brother. Only China and Russia are going to oppose them on the UN security council.

How's it going "enlightened democracies"?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

None of them want Iran to have nuclear weapons. They are probably fine with Israel doing the dirty work.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Countries allowed to have nuclear weapons (or energy) check:

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Countries allowed to have nukes:

  • countries that already have them
  • countries that make them before someone stops them

Don't forget China, India, and Pakistan all have nukes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

It's like working on a nintedo fan game, only announce it once you're done.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"If we support Israel with their very own holocaust we'll be even for what we did right?"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

Two Holocausts don't make a right.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Albert Einstein was 100% correct. I am ashamed of the politicians in Germany who fail to learn the lessons from WWII.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Politicians when they were asked much earlier (last year?) about unprovoked Israeli attacks on Iran:

"Does Israel have a right to defend itself?"

"Yes"

"Does every country have a right to defend themselves?"

"Yes"

"Does Iran have a right to defend itself?"

"This is a very complex issue, and Israel has a right to defend itself"

If I were from the global South I'd pretend Western countries don't even exist and just work with China, which I'm glad to say it looks like Africa is doing just that. Africa has had some awesome leaders honestly (who France and America are desperately trying to overthrow).

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

Fuck Germany for this and fuck Israel.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago

Iran is illegally building a nuclear weapon for illegal self defense and Israel is doing a Jack Bauer to stop them.

Obviously, Germany - a country with a long and storied history of liberal democratic values and anti-war principles - will come down on the right side of this conflict. There's no way they'd just align with a Middle Eastern Imperialist power looking to dominate and ethically cleanse a region of its native people.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

it's like ok ok ok european gov'ts don't care about genocide because they're bloodthirsty lunatics ok ok ok whatever but ok

but ffs what about their finances/economy? germany/others are already fucked because they got cut off from russian gas. imagine iran shuts down the strait of hormuz? europe is going to be fucked

how they are not screaming for jewish supremacists to fuck off is beyond me.

and all of this is only to further get europe addicted to US shale. it's all so apparent and insane how do these idiots in power not see this?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

honestly, european jews were always a stand-in for muslims (it's more complicated than that) to christian europeans, so i guess now that they can watch the wholesale slaughter of actual muslims, that base urge is satisfied

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

It's why it's called antisemitism.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In 2023, Germany said: “Confronted with an openly aggressive Russia, the importance of nuclear deterrence has increased for many states, including for [Germany].

Germany is one of five NATO members to host US nuclear weapons on its territory as part of a nuclear-sharing agreement. The German air force is assigned approximately 15 B61 nuclear bombs, which are deployed at the Büchel air base.

In 2016, Germany voted against the UN General Assembly resolution that established the formal mandate for states to commence negotiations on “a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination”.

https://www.icanw.org/germany

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Germany: Nuclear weapons are good actually

Also Germany: Ban nuclear power return to burning coal

Guess they don't like nuclear if it doesn't involve killing people

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (11 children)

France being famous for having disposed of all 290 of its own nuclear weapons, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Didn't click on the link but based on the last 8 years, anything Macron says has a strong probability of being dogshit made to sound plausible and appealing to the end user.
We had chatgpt as president before chatgpt was the hype.
So whatever he wrote on the nazi social network, take it with a huge pinch of salt.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Implying they ever had the plot to begin with

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