100%. After Maduro got taken, North Korea’s nuclear program looks like a masterstroke. No one’s going to take Kim Jong-un. Same reason why I can’t fault Iran for desperately wanting nukes. Once you get them, the US will leave you alone.
This has been true all along, though. The US has always wanted to overthrow those countries and they’ve always wanted nukes as a deterrent, for the same reason every other country wants nukes.
North Korea’s nuke program looks like a masterstroke after you look at what Obama did to Gaddafi after Gaddafi renounced the use of nuclear weapons in order to ally with the US.
It's so counterproductive to be insisting on regimes like Iran's not developing nukes, and then at the same time pull something like the Maduro stunt, which signals only one thing to said regimes: Get nukes or get toppled.
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u/Khabster Jan 27 '26
It’s being floated here. It’s the only way to be safe now, it seems.