• @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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    322 days ago

    We should welcome an Iranian bomb. Honestly, it’s what the Middle East really needs to bring it to stability.

    The biggest destabilizing force in the Middle East is Israel. They’re a destabilizing force because they’re an expansionist nuclear-armed power with no hard borders. Their borders aren’t actually fixed; they’re in a decades-long process to slowly expand them. For those who forget, Israel’s MO is to:

    1. Destabilize border regions of neighboring countries and foster the creation of militant groups within them.
    2. Use those destabilized regions as justification for military occupation of the territory of neighboring countries.
    3. Announce the creation of border “buffer zones.”
    4. Allow their civilians to move into what is supposed to be a DMZ-like buffer zone.
    5. Again have civilians in the line of fire of militants, demanding further border expansion.

    Israel has been expanding like this for decades, and there’s no end in site. Their immediate neighbors are all to weak and destabilized to resist this process of slow Israeli lebensraum. The people in the Middle East are rightly afraid that they’ll be next under the Israeli boot, and they’ll find themselves reduced to the plight of the Gazans.

    Israel is out of control. It’s an expansionist military power hellbent on gobbling up its neighbors. The reason they’re able to get away with this is because they have nuclear weapons. No Arab nation can invade them without the threat of being nuked in return. Israel uses its nuclear arsenal to conquer its neighbors.

    Another nuclear power is desperately needed in the region to hold them in check. A nuclear Iran would serve this role well. They wouldn’t be able to wipe Israel off the map, as that would result in them getting nuked in return. What a nuclear-armed Iran can do is to finally put a check on Israel’s endless military expansion. We need powers that can stand up to the Israelis as equals and say, “no. Your borders are fucking big enough. You’re not taking one more square meter of land.”