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Or... nothing will change at all. See the Fordow strike: attack another country, pull out unexpectedly, and pretend nothing ever happened.

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Oh, something changed there. Iran's attitude towards nuclear weapons has changed considerably, and none for the better. They're a deal with Pakistan or Russia away from achieving that.

Iran was well on that path anyway. The US strike absolutely did turn Iran from a peaceful actor with no interest in nuclear weapons into a regime bent on acquiring nuclear weapons.

> no interest in nuclear weapons

Is that satire or am I confused? Do we actually think any sovereign nation in the world has “no interest in nuclear weapons”?

I mean…pretty sure greenland was cool with it up until a year ago now…

Americans have remarkably short attention spans. In 5 years when Iran is widely acknowledged to have nuclear weapons, you’ll know what changed after Fordrow.

Or when there is an early sunrise somewhere in the Middle East.

I've been hearing "Iran is weeks away from a nuke" since the 1980's.

It's almost like that dude who keeps saying, "FSD in my EVs is just months away."

That’s correct. The point is that until now Iran has intentionally not built a nuke - they’ve kept themselves within range to make it a credible threat, but they’ve not completed the project because so far the tacit agreement has been that if they don’t build a nuke, the US doesn’t let the Israelis bomb Tehran.

I cant wait for the Monday press conference where the Epstein files are not even brought up again.

They did not capture the Iranian leadership, though.

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