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The comment that starts this chain is quite literally "A country that invests all of his money on nuclear weapons"

And you took that literally as apposed to a common figure of speech?

I’m pretty sure if the Iranian missile program had not demonstrated its ability to exhaust and defeat the sum total of all western missile defense production and force a truce, that the discussion would be around which European population would get the plantation of Ulster treatment with the tens of millions of refugees.

> Not surprising. A country that invests all of his money on nuclear weapons and threatens the West with bombings- will actually care if it's capital is drying up?

This is the comment I originally commented under.