Actually, no.

We’ve heard WW3 analogies tossed around for the last 30 years.

I think it’s more fair to say that we’re not facing WW3 precisely because the world has seen the destructive power of nuclear weapons and they’ve proliferated so much. That is, obviously, particularly true for Japan.

No one is placing blame here.

They’re discussing the material factors that have led to the current situation. Lack of nukes is one of those, and it’s likely that Ukraine wouldn’t be under a state of defensive war at the moment had they maintained their nuclear arsenal.

I think the best example here is North Korea actually. Nothing stops imperialists in their tracks better than a nuclear program, and if we want a more peaceful world, the answer is every country having a nuke as that inspires more diplomacy and cooperation.

There was also a really fun video circulating yesterday of a Nick Fuentes hanger-on getting bitch slapped in New York in front of the “Young” Republicans event.

This is the correct answer.

The only thing that keeps imperialism at bay is mutually-assured destruction.

Ah yes.

The exceedingly impressive master race that is totally going to civil war us all.

Terrifying.

Every country needs to have a nuke, based on what we’re seeing the US and Israel do to Palestine and what Russia is doing to Ukraine.

Stories like this are kinda why I hope someone just presses the red button one day.

Not ‘settler’.

Raider.

They’re just not going to believe that the US can be trusted

Yup. The damage to the American brand is permanent, and that will become painfully clear when the post-tariff trade deals take effect within the next year and a half and trade routes itself around the US rather than through it.

The worst part is it won’t affect Donald in any meaningful way, because his perception of reality is wedded to his algorithm and his wealth makes him untouchable.

Kind of surprising to see this take after the 2025 elections.

It seems to me that watching a dozen or more former Trump districts lost to Democratic politicians is fairly good proof that people are dissatisfied with his leadership and governance, and the even wilder thing is that Donald’s aggression toward Venezuela has actually served to draw up some resistance in Congress. (So much so that both Donald and Hegseth are trying to establish a fall guy.)

Sadly, they will.

And Donald will too, even as the economy crashes for everyone else.

I could get on board with that.

Immigration is only easy if you’re wealthy.

Really wish the guy had at least shot the murderer in his hands, so he not only has to live his life out in prison, but can’t jerk off comfortably.

You’re right.

These two should have conducted their murders in a civilized way, like bombing people as they lay helpless in a hospital bed, or standing in line for food at a designated aid site.

Or, by blockading shipments of food so they just starve to death.

That’s the civilized, Israeli way to do murder.

If there’s a way to handle things incorrectly, Israel will find it.

Did they at least kick the shit out of him after disarming him?

In a year to a year-and-a-half he’s going to be begging for Europe’s attention. That’ll be when the post-tariff trade deals rerouting around the US kick in.

Oddly enough, I think this would be an effective thing.

Musk, like all bullies, just doesn’t want any accountability whatsoever. Yes, the amount is trivial given his means, but as we saw in South America, he is perfectly willing to back down when a challenge is meaningful, culturally if not materially.